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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 3754194" data-attributes="member: 19857">There's a case to be made that if you don't have a druid in the core rules, you don't need so many "normal animal" stats.  Many of those animal stats wouldn't be needed in a typical game if the druid didn't have "Summon Nature's Ally" to call them down (and if you had better monsters to summon with "Summon Monster I" than a fiendish rat).That said, some "normal animals" would be missed (by me at least).  Rats, wolves, bats - normal and giant sized of each have been a staple of my D&D games since the Basic set.  Sure you can put cooler monsters in there, but there's something satisfying about watching a group of players run away from giant rats...I do agree with this - no axing the "iconic D&D monsters".  Somehow, I doubt that will be an issue with the current crop of developers.  (Sadly, no one seems to think that the flumph is iconic.)EDIT: I forgot to add - I would probably remove all of the unintelligent oozes from the Monster Manual and rework them more like an "Encounter Trap".  You can model, say, the gelatinous cube as an encounter trap pretty easily and I think the rest of the oozes in the core MM are much the same.  Move them into the DMG along with green slime and rot grubs as a things to use in an encounter trap and you free up a couple of pages.</blockquote>