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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6121271" data-attributes="member: 2067">Another response to that is: because niches can be filled by more than one monster type.Another response to that is: modrons and slaadi lend particular unique twists to this type of conflict.Etc.Yeah, I'm sympathetic to this point. If the first monster book is pressed for space, we don't need to put them in there.But remember the fabulous diversity of creatures that was found in the 2e Monstrous Manual, even with the 1-page-per-monster tendency. We had slaadi. We had zaratans. We had weird space monsters and we had frolicking fey and we had tiny electric purple bats and we had beholder-based humanoids and we had intelligent magical storks and we had the brain mole and we had gem dragons and we had oliphants and mammoths and mastodons (all different creatures!) and we had steampunk outer space hippopotamus-men, two pages on jermlaines, grippli, and eight kinds of horses, and that's just at about the half-way mark. Now I'm not saying that's necessarily the best selection of critters to have in an MM, either. I'm just saying that it's not out of the realm of possibility that 5e's MM is able to fit in slaadi and modrons and still have plenty of room to breathe. If they need to cut for space, okay, yeah, extraplanar creatures probably deserve the axe. But there's no indication that they need to cut for space at the moment, and there's a real possibility that they have plenty of room for these guys.</blockquote>

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