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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryltar" data-source="post: 2822935" data-attributes="member: 19393">I agree, Gold Roger.The new format - from the statblock doing away with all the superfluous information, to the knowledge sidebars and ecology-style writeups - is great. More space for a single creature is also a good thing - it also saves us the effort of having to read through all the boring "It'd have been cut because it sucks, but we managed to squeeze it in because we had no space issues" monsters.However, what's the point in having a book that's largely populated by dragonspawn? The half-dragon template et al. have been more than sufficient for this kind of thing.Secondly: the art isn't exactly to my liking. Third: the flavor text paragraph describing the monster is getting sillier by every book. It doesn't evoke an image, it's just a text describing the important abilities of the dragonspawn arcaniss. I know, that as a player, I couldn't imagine the creature when described such as this. (This has been a trend in recent books, also affecting spell descriptions.)Fourth and last complaint: Ugh. What kind of name is that? As if WotC didn't have enough pluralization issues ...</blockquote>