Originally Posted by
Witty Username
The debate isn't whether one should be allowed to book dive mid game so much as should abilities like say wild shape be allowed to expand with splat books and monster content vs having a set of rules for how it works and never expand beyond that point (either by a set list like find familiar or the generic stat blocks like the Tasha's beastmaster and summons rules)
Also, whether players other than the DM should be allowed to read the monster manual.
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I like using monster statblocks for player abilities for verisimilitude purposes (if say a sky beast is nothing like an owl, saying it is an owl works poorly for me). That and I would prefer things like Summons to have CRs at the very least, in case I use them as a DM.