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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6256030" data-attributes="member: 20323">Wait, so the reasoning behind having spells pulled from stat blocks in 5e was "errata"? Gah! That just boggles my mind. It must be the idea that there needs to be PC / NPC parity when it comes to what sorts of abilities they have. But that's a slippery slope. I mean, there are complicated PC abilities that NPCs probably shouldn't have just because the DM is one person and only has so much cognitive processing space. And then there are times when you want to break the rules (for whatever narrative reason) and then you don't need a full spell write up describing components and such, do you? The needs for a PC ability and an NPC/monster ability are different: The PC ability can be much more complicated to allow for greater choice / strategic / tactical use by the player. The NPC/monster ability needs to be easy for the DM to describe and adjudicate...given all the other tasks and monsters the DM needs to handle.Maybe a happy medium could be met with anything you need to run a monster or NPC in combat included in its stat block, and then if it has access to ritual-type spells used out of combat, those could be listed and linked to the PHB/spell reference.</blockquote>