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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveMage" data-source="post: 4553493" data-attributes="member: 10447">It all depends how it's presented.If the expectation is that monsters are different then PCs, then there are no issues.  If, however (as the case with 3.5), the MM tells you how to build monsters and then doesn't even follow its own rules, then there's a problem.However, one of the things I like about 3.5 is that it tells you in each monster entry how to make the monster an NPC or PC if desired (mainly if they advance by character class).  As long as there is such a section for each monster that could be an NPC (or PC) class (or even a blanket method described in the book), I don't have any problem with monsters being different from PCs.Monte Cook only listed "relevant" skills and feats in his stat blocks for Ptolus, and I have no problem with that method.</blockquote>