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Mike Shea

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And then you get to the stat blocks, right? Then you get to see what the actual hag does. And then it even has a little like combat, what the hag does here. It has, you know, lots of stuff about hag. There's like five pages about hags. Now this is not fair really, but I did just sort of pick hag out of a hat and the hag happened to have five pages of stuff, six pages of stuff.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And then you get to the stat blocks, right? Then you get to see what the actual hag does. And then it even has a little like combat, what the hag does here. It has, you know, lots of stuff about hag. There's like five pages about hags. Now this is not fair really, but I did just sort of pick hag out of a hat and the hag happened to have five pages of stuff, six pages of stuff.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So there's lots of stuff about hags in here, but many of the, you know, even like Half Dragons has environments which include encounters, signs, behavior, you know, other things. A lot of the monsters, harpies, right? The harpies is not a crazy, you know, it's not five pages of harpy, but it still has legends lore. It still has the encounters. It still has signs and behavior.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So there's lots of stuff about hags in here, but many of the, you know, even like Half Dragons has environments which include encounters, signs, behavior, you know, other things. A lot of the monsters, harpies, right? The harpies is not a crazy, you know, it's not five pages of harpy, but it still has legends lore. It still has the encounters. It still has signs and behavior.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So there's lots of stuff about hags in here, but many of the, you know, even like Half Dragons has environments which include encounters, signs, behavior, you know, other things. A lot of the monsters, harpies, right? The harpies is not a crazy, you know, it's not five pages of harpy, but it still has legends lore. It still has the encounters. It still has signs and behavior.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Hellhounds has encounters, right? And it includes treasure and things like that. It still has signs and behaviors. Lots of the monsters have this stuff, and this is what we need. This is the stuff that helps us run our game at the table. I don't think we're going to see this in the 2025 Monster Manual.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Hellhounds has encounters, right? And it includes treasure and things like that. It still has signs and behaviors. Lots of the monsters have this stuff, and this is what we need. This is the stuff that helps us run our game at the table. I don't think we're going to see this in the 2025 Monster Manual.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Hellhounds has encounters, right? And it includes treasure and things like that. It still has signs and behaviors. Lots of the monsters have this stuff, and this is what we need. This is the stuff that helps us run our game at the table. I don't think we're going to see this in the 2025 Monster Manual.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

One of the things that we already got a preview of, and I immediately made fun of it, and I'm going to make fun of it again when I have it, because I don't think they did this,

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

One of the things that we already got a preview of, and I immediately made fun of it, and I'm going to make fun of it again when I have it, because I don't think they did this,

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

One of the things that we already got a preview of, and I immediately made fun of it, and I'm going to make fun of it again when I have it, because I don't think they did this,

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

is one of the things they talked about was oh we also have treasure listings for monsters so on some of the previews we saw very few previews but we saw i think like some other youtube folks had a previews and one of them was like for the cyclops and what they said was oh we list the dragon we list the treasure with it and you're like oh that's cool so like there'll be some example treasure that this monster might have very useful stuff it turns out no it tells you which treasure table to roll on in the dungeon masters guide like armaments or like magic items or like stuff like that now we only saw one

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

is one of the things they talked about was oh we also have treasure listings for monsters so on some of the previews we saw very few previews but we saw i think like some other youtube folks had a previews and one of them was like for the cyclops and what they said was oh we list the dragon we list the treasure with it and you're like oh that's cool so like there'll be some example treasure that this monster might have very useful stuff it turns out no it tells you which treasure table to roll on in the dungeon masters guide like armaments or like magic items or like stuff like that now we only saw one

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

is one of the things they talked about was oh we also have treasure listings for monsters so on some of the previews we saw very few previews but we saw i think like some other youtube folks had a previews and one of them was like for the cyclops and what they said was oh we list the dragon we list the treasure with it and you're like oh that's cool so like there'll be some example treasure that this monster might have very useful stuff it turns out no it tells you which treasure table to roll on in the dungeon masters guide like armaments or like magic items or like stuff like that now we only saw one

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

But the one I saw said treasure colon armaments. And I think it was the half dragon they showed. And it said treasure comma armaments. And I was like, that is literally the second least thing you could do next to saying treasure colon treasure. Like, why not offer some examples of the kinds of treasure this monster might have?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

But the one I saw said treasure colon armaments. And I think it was the half dragon they showed. And it said treasure comma armaments. And I was like, that is literally the second least thing you could do next to saying treasure colon treasure. Like, why not offer some examples of the kinds of treasure this monster might have?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

But the one I saw said treasure colon armaments. And I think it was the half dragon they showed. And it said treasure comma armaments. And I was like, that is literally the second least thing you could do next to saying treasure colon treasure. Like, why not offer some examples of the kinds of treasure this monster might have?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Because then I can use that and I'll have to go to the other book to look it up. Don't make me look things up in other books. Too late now, right? The book's printed. The book's already done. We're going to have it in a month. But that was a missed opportunity. I think, we'll see. Like, I've only seen one monster. I don't know, but the one monster I saw did it that way.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Because then I can use that and I'll have to go to the other book to look it up. Don't make me look things up in other books. Too late now, right? The book's printed. The book's already done. We're going to have it in a month. But that was a missed opportunity. I think, we'll see. Like, I've only seen one monster. I don't know, but the one monster I saw did it that way.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Monster Manual Concerns – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Because then I can use that and I'll have to go to the other book to look it up. Don't make me look things up in other books. Too late now, right? The book's printed. The book's already done. We're going to have it in a month. But that was a missed opportunity. I think, we'll see. Like, I've only seen one monster. I don't know, but the one monster I saw did it that way.