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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8032947" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I think you've guessed that the correct answer, at the end of the day, is that a full page write-up entry is more expensive. Beyond art it requires a description of the correct length to fit in the layout well with that art and stat block, all to create a book that will be more expensive to print. The more expensive the book is the less money it makes.What I would add is that creating a Monster Manual is a sufficiently complicated project that a certain number of decisions are going to outlast the logic that created them. In other words, some things are the way they are because there was a really good reason in an earlier draft that didn't necessarily make it to the final version.My guess, given that there are illustrations and some text would be that at some point these critters were going to get proper full entries, then got demoted. They all lucked out in being animalistic enough to get to hang on in Appendix A, rather than being booted from the book.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8032947, member: 6988941"] I think you've guessed that the correct answer, at the end of the day, is that a full page write-up entry is more expensive. Beyond art it requires a description of the correct length to fit in the layout well with that art and stat block, all to create a book that will be more expensive to print. The more expensive the book is the less money it makes. What I would add is that creating a Monster Manual is a sufficiently complicated project that a certain number of decisions are going to outlast the logic that created them. In other words, some things are the way they are because there was a really good reason in an earlier draft that didn't necessarily make it to the final version. My guess, given that there are illustrations and some text would be that at some point these critters were going to get proper full entries, then got demoted. They all lucked out in being animalistic enough to get to hang on in Appendix A, rather than being booted from the book. [/QUOTE]

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