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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 4276613" data-attributes="member: 5202">The PHB should be written to allow as many people to easily get into the game as possible.  They DO want to pull more people into gaming after all.They are relying on the pictures to describe the monsters.  How many times did we read examples of monsters and have the art woefully wrong?  I can think of several personally.  So skip the description.  That description you gave for the new Sauhagin tells me several things I need to know and an easy hook to bring them into an adventure is a coastal town being raided/menaced by a group of them.  Easy.  Several monsters have mentions of being from the Feywild or Shadowfell.  What more do we need to know with that?  Haven't been able to look thru my new books much yet, but aren't the basic areas talked about like that in some location?  So many people are always griping about settings like the Realms having too much detail on too fine a scale and how they wish they could get a setting from WoTC that had more breathing room.  The PoL setting is just what those people asked for, and now some of them are unhappy (not pointing at anyone in particular in thread) w/the barebones setting and demand more world information.The descriptions give me enough information to place them where I want.  If someone puts a white dragon in the desert, ok but it isnt' wrongbadfun, it's their idea of something interesting.  Besides, the MM does say "and primarily dwell in cold climates".  So this could be an exception to the rule or they just skimmed over that part.  The MM does include info on where it is typically encountered tho.</blockquote>

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