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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8410798" data-attributes="member: 7635">So I messed around with the filtering on a few D&amp;D databased and checked to see monster counts.First, I removed all supplemental products (such as the beginner box sets), DMs Guild official products, and other reprint fodder. Then I removed all setting books (Eberron, Ravenloft, Theros, Ravnica). Then I removed the Core books, Tasha and Xanathar, and I set a negative tag on ToF and VGE to remove reprints. Then I selected every hardback module, filtering for named NPCs (Strahd Von Zarovich). I couldn't filter for functional duplicates (elf guard vs. guard) but even with that, there was 250 unique monster stat blocks in all the adventures. I'm sure if you manually went in and whittled out the duplicates and module specific ones (Barovian commoner or aarakroca simulacrum) You'd get that number below 200. Anyway, my point is they could fill a third book at this point covering nothing but the monsters from Tyranny of Dragons through Rime of the Frostmaiden.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8410798, member: 7635"] So I messed around with the filtering on a few D&D databased and checked to see monster counts. First, I removed all supplemental products (such as the beginner box sets), DMs Guild official products, and other reprint fodder. Then I removed all setting books (Eberron, Ravenloft, Theros, Ravnica). Then I removed the Core books, Tasha and Xanathar, and I set a negative tag on ToF and VGE to remove reprints. Then I selected every hardback module, filtering for named NPCs (Strahd Von Zarovich). I couldn't filter for functional duplicates (elf guard vs. guard) but even with that, there was 250 unique monster stat blocks in all the adventures. I'm sure if you manually went in and whittled out the duplicates and module specific ones (Barovian commoner or aarakroca simulacrum) You'd get that number below 200. Anyway, my point is they could fill a third book at this point covering nothing but the monsters from Tyranny of Dragons through Rime of the Frostmaiden. [/QUOTE]

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