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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 3751424" data-attributes="member: 19857">Actually, I thought that the Bruce Cordell interview from the other day confirmed that magic items would still be in the DMG.Also, we still haven't heard much about "prestige classes" at all.  My personal suspicion is that they're mostly going away and being replaced by alternate talent trees, but that's just a suspicion.  I'd bet that if they're keeping prestige classes in any kind of form similar to what they are now, they'll be in the DMG since they're still supposedly chosen by the DM for his/her specific campaign.Meh - not all monsters need a full page IMHO.  Kobolds, Goblins, Orcs - anything without a raft of special abilities should fit in less than a single column.  And no single monster should have more than a single page total for itself.  If this is an indication that they're actually going to be able to do something about the "stat bloat" in the monster writeups, I'll be very happy indeed.OTOH - the layout people should make sure that a monster entry doesn't cross pages such that I have to flip back and forth between pages when I'm using the book at the table.  This is the single most annoying characteristic of the 3.5e Monster Manual - a good chunk of the monsters fall on page boundaries where I have to flip back and forth to see their stats and their special abilities.)</blockquote>