Continuing to play catch-up, we’re on to one of my favorite topics in Legends & Lore: Monsters. The most interesting bit to me in reading Mike’s post is tracing the lines of influence that lead to a monster. It speaks to the diverse goals of D&D Next and why the stat blocks seem so scattered. The first thread is the fiction. This is maybe the easiest to understand as well, it’s the part of the monster that defines the fictional thing that we all imagine when dealing with one (and the artist imagines while drawing it, etc.). The fiction accounts for all the points in the first step of Mike’s post, one point...