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How specific to a single rule-set is this book? The sort of thing that's only useful if you play D&D 5e, or more generically applicable in ideas and inspiration that can apply to the same monsters across rulesets?

Arthur Rubi III This book writes its combat tactic suggestions based on the specific ability scores, attacks, and features as given for creatures that appear in the 5…moreThis book writes its combat tactic suggestions based on the specific ability scores, attacks, and features as given for creatures that appear in the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. For example, in the Goblin section, it references a D&D 5e Goblin's good Dexterity score and poor Constitution score to insinuate that they don't want to get into close combat, and directly references the Goblin's Nimble Escape feature to outline how they'd accomplish this goal.
However, it can still be used for ideas and inspiration, since the way that many monsters are written in 5th edition is common going backwards to previous D&D editions, and may have some applications. Your mileage may vary in other systems since other systems may characterize creatures differently. For example, Orcs in D&D are characterized somewhat differently from Orcs in a Warhammer setting, or Orcs in a Warcraft setting. (less)

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