Monster Mash

One problem with D&D and other RPGs is that they tend to a proliferation of monsters -- as Terry Pratchett complained, "what you really need to be the complete adventurer was the Marcus L. Rowland fifteen-volume guide to Monsters and the ability to read very, very fast." In part, it was the tendency of DMs to use new monsters with new strengths and new weaknesses rather than work out tactics that would allow the same old monsters to be different dangers.

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