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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6116111" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Nah, the MM would be fine with chapters!</p><p></p><p>If you <em>really </em>don't remember the type, you go to the <em>first</em> page or <em>last </em>page (wherever the index is), you scroll down, and in max 10 seconds you find the <strong>page number</strong> which takes but a few more seconds to reach.</p><p></p><p>If you have to browse the pages by monsters name, it takes about the same time to find it, because you're looking at the names not the page numbers.</p><p></p><p>And then how many times <em>really</em> you didn't know about a monster in the <strong>first</strong> Monster Manual? Those are almost all common monsters, with a few exceptions there is hardly a problem remembering the type (that is, of course, if the total number of types is not too high*).</p><p></p><p>Then for Monster Manuals after the first, we can definitely go with alphabetical order, especially because the common info about each type doesn't need to be reprinted (it can be assumed everyone has MM1) and because in some supplementary monsters books some monsters types might have very few entries and thus a whole chapter would look silly.</p><p></p><p>*It's good already that they merge Animals, Beasts and Vermins, but maybe we can get rid of Giants (merged to humanoids or monstrosities) and perhaps something else</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the 3ed MM already had one chapter for Animals and one other chapter for Vermin, has this every been a problem?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6116111, member: 1465"] Nah, the MM would be fine with chapters! If you [I]really [/I]don't remember the type, you go to the [I]first[/I] page or [I]last [/I]page (wherever the index is), you scroll down, and in max 10 seconds you find the [B]page number[/B] which takes but a few more seconds to reach. If you have to browse the pages by monsters name, it takes about the same time to find it, because you're looking at the names not the page numbers. And then how many times [I]really[/I] you didn't know about a monster in the [B]first[/B] Monster Manual? Those are almost all common monsters, with a few exceptions there is hardly a problem remembering the type (that is, of course, if the total number of types is not too high*). Then for Monster Manuals after the first, we can definitely go with alphabetical order, especially because the common info about each type doesn't need to be reprinted (it can be assumed everyone has MM1) and because in some supplementary monsters books some monsters types might have very few entries and thus a whole chapter would look silly. *It's good already that they merge Animals, Beasts and Vermins, but maybe we can get rid of Giants (merged to humanoids or monstrosities) and perhaps something else Anyway, the 3ed MM already had one chapter for Animals and one other chapter for Vermin, has this every been a problem? [/QUOTE]
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