Other lamias

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the, the stats are, the stats are streamlined, but, um, still telling largely the same story with a much better action economy.

I'm not, like, disappointed with what they lost, because, at least to me, there is kind of that weird, um, weird thing where, you know, lamia matriarchs used to have more spell casting, and then the regular lamias were just sort of the illusion and eat you.

So it is weird that... you know, I'm not as, uh, broken up that they don't have as much spell casting, because at least in my mind-

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... put the, the first one in the monster manual and said, "We can make another one out of this." Uh, but I will give them credit.

Lamia are one of the, one of the Greek mythol- Greek mythological creatures that wasn't just, this is lamia, because apparently that did kind of turn into, there was a class of illusion creatures that would lure people into the wilderness and eat them, called lamia, based on the original woman that was cursed by Hera.