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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6720826" data-attributes="member: 1465">For me it's simple: I hate using books at the gaming table. Books have always been too bulky to handle and too precious to spoil with snack-engreased fingers for me. I'd rather keep them safe from the table top <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Instead of using the MM, in 3e I've always photocopied (or printed from the SRD) the stat blocks of monsters I was going to use, and now in 5e I do the same and print them from Basic, or read them from a tablet.Adventure books and magazines are typically lighter and less valuable than books, so I have in fact used them at the table... but overall I still think it's better for me to have separate pages rather than a volume, so I still prefer my monsters stats to be paper sheets of their own.With all this in mind, for my personal way of doing, monsters stats in the middle of an adventure are not a good thing: if they are monsters from the MM then a reprint in the adventure is wasted space; if they are brand new monsters, they are still more handy in a sheet separate from the adventure book itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6720826, member: 1465"] For me it's simple: [I]I hate using books at the gaming table[/I]. Books have always been too bulky to handle and too precious to spoil with snack-engreased fingers for me. I'd rather keep them safe from the table top :) Instead of using the MM, in 3e I've always photocopied (or printed from the SRD) the stat blocks of monsters I was going to use, and now in 5e I do the same and print them from Basic, or read them from a tablet. Adventure books and magazines are typically lighter and less valuable than books, so I have in fact used them at the table... but overall I still think it's better for me to have separate pages rather than a volume, so I still prefer my monsters stats to be paper sheets of their own. With all this in mind, for my personal way of doing, monsters stats in the middle of an adventure are not a good thing: if they are monsters from the MM then a reprint in the adventure is wasted space; if they are brand new monsters, they are still more handy in a sheet separate from the adventure book itself. [/QUOTE]

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