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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6944375" data-attributes="member: 12731">I like more monsters, such as the Bodak that I'll press into service almost immediately. Specifically, I wanted the official take on how 5E implements its Death Gaze. (The rest I could have whipped up myself if forced to)I like more NPC stat blocks if and only if these are used in future products. This can happen in (at least) three ways:a) the same NPC stat blocks are consistently reproduced in the future hardbacks that use themb) the NPCs are used with reference to Volo's, but also given out for free as online PDF supplements, much like how the Princes of Apocalypse online supplement brought buyers of PotA that rely on Basic Rules only up to speed.c) the NPCs are added to future printings of Monster Manual  ---Dislikes: Already when I started to read the first, Beholder, section I groaned. Tables for Beholder Iris Shapes is exactly the kind of stupid useless padding we usually mostly see late in an edition's run, when people are running out of ideas. It's extremely irritating to see so very many pages wasted on that kind of stuff, that if you need to convey the information at all, you could have said simply "Beholder eye irises are chaotically shaped, with some being slit-shaped, some square, and some even stranger". One line, bam. A full d20 table is simply word diarrhea. I truly have no nicer name for it.</blockquote>