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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 7743872" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>There are two bits of evidence that we will be seeing a good amount of monsters in the book.</p><p></p><p>The first is that the Roll 20 preview mentions "over 230 monsters" from the book. Now we do know from their version of Volo's that they include variants in their counts, but even then it didn't significantly inflate the numbers over Volo's. So, given that evidence, it seems that we'll see somewhat, but not significantly, less than 230 monsters in the book.</p><p></p><p>The second is that the Fantasy Grounds preview showed the first page of all six chapters that we already knew of (The Blood War, Elves, Dwarves and Duergar, Gith and their Endless War, Gnomes and Halflings, and the Bestiary), but nothing further. This does seem to strongly indicate there isn't an unknown chapter after the Bestiary; at most a small appendix or two, if even that. Given that we know the Bestiary chapter starts not much before page 117, that the monster stat blocks have only reached partway through the "D" monsters by page 177, and that book has a total of 256 pages, that does seem to point to the Bestiary chapter being 130 - 140 pages long, which will, despite having a fair number of two-page named fiend entries, inevitably contain a pretty significant number of monster stat blocks...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 7743872, member: 6801060"] There are two bits of evidence that we will be seeing a good amount of monsters in the book. The first is that the Roll 20 preview mentions "over 230 monsters" from the book. Now we do know from their version of Volo's that they include variants in their counts, but even then it didn't significantly inflate the numbers over Volo's. So, given that evidence, it seems that we'll see somewhat, but not significantly, less than 230 monsters in the book. The second is that the Fantasy Grounds preview showed the first page of all six chapters that we already knew of (The Blood War, Elves, Dwarves and Duergar, Gith and their Endless War, Gnomes and Halflings, and the Bestiary), but nothing further. This does seem to strongly indicate there isn't an unknown chapter after the Bestiary; at most a small appendix or two, if even that. Given that we know the Bestiary chapter starts not much before page 117, that the monster stat blocks have only reached partway through the "D" monsters by page 177, and that book has a total of 256 pages, that does seem to point to the Bestiary chapter being 130 - 140 pages long, which will, despite having a fair number of two-page named fiend entries, inevitably contain a pretty significant number of monster stat blocks... [/QUOTE]
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