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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6256250" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think some monsters have challenging powers - some MM3 ones especially (eg Chained Cambion, Pact Hag). But some of these abilities are also very worthwhile - the Chained Cambion played incredibly well when I used it, and it power (of psychically chaining two PCs together, therefore causing them to vicariously experience it's own suffering) was awesome. But these are precisely the sorts of abilities that you lose if you confine yourself to PHB abilities.Another example from my latest session is the Flayed Wrackspawn's "broken loyalties" power. That's a nice integration of story elements and mechanics that you won't get if you stick to PHB material.Whereas the stock-standard PHB stuff (force missiles, fireballs, hold person etc) should be trivially replicable in a stat block, as [MENTION=11821]Obryn[/MENTION] and [MENTION=6182]Incenjucar[/MENTION] have indicated, without needing cross referencing at all.</blockquote>