D&D 5E Wandering Monsters: Defining Our Terms

[Sage Genesis]

I find an alphabetically orgenized MM to be the most annoying way to orgenized a book, if I know that the monster I search for is located in a certain chapter, and each chapter got a different page background, I can simply flip through the book until I find e chapter I'm looking for and than find my monster...

That method relies on you knowing which creatures belong to which categories though. Let's say you want to look up the Displacer Beast. So you flip to the Beasts and... nothing. Alright, so it's a Monstrosity. Wait, no, it's not there either. Oh of course! It's got tentacles sprouting from its back, it's an Aberration! Sorry, it turns out it was a Fey. In a more traditional book you'd just flip to the D and be over with it. Your proposed way is better if you want to sit down and construct an assorted army of undead, the traditional method is better for looking up individual monsters (especially if you haven't memorized them).

Ideally there'd be some sort of electronic format that allows you to quickly select by alphabetical order, type, level, terrain, etc that neatly fits on a tablet.

 

[gyor]

Good point.