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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 258532" data-attributes="member: 381">Ding-ding-ding! And Geoff gets the door prize for the first fully correct answer. Honorable mention to Lady Dragon for repeating in more detail a bit later.The Core rulebooks provide a basic framework for any supplements and modules. If a writer wants to use a monster from the MM, (s)he can use a basic description and stat block, trusting that the reader has a MM, and that if the reader doesn't, the writer doesn't care. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The only full writeups that need to appear in the module/supplement are for new or altered creatures. This lets items like the core modules, with some 1-2 dozen or so monsters, be 32 pages instead of 64.If/when I run a campaign, I would strongly caution any player from assuming that a monster his/her character encounters is identical to anything in the MM. I generally write my own adventures, you see ...</blockquote>