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A number of creatures that have legendary actions - particularly dragons - list Detect as one of the options available, described as the monster making a Wisdom (Perception) check. This has raised a number of questions for me about Perception and its role in combat. The Detect legendary action...

In discussions about 5e monsters, there are two major areas of criticism: most monsters are bags of hit points with few interesting actions, and there aren't enough variants that scale up low-level foes to challenge higher-level parties. These two ideas are often conflated, or at least...

I originally posted this in the "Lore isn't rules" thread, but by that time the participants were having much too much fun with their argument in progress (which, pretty please, let's not continue here) to give it much notice - but I'm still curious about it, so maybe it's worth a thread of its...

So like an idiot, I dipped into the last few pages of the Setting Canon thread, which seems to have long since gone off the rails, slipped the tracks, careened into the wilderness, and barrel-rolled two or three times before catching on fire and exploding. That said, though, something startling...

Good morning 5E players - and especially DMs! I have a new pay-what-you-want release available on the Dungeon Masters Guild. Adversaries & Allies is an expansion on the NPCs in the Monster Manual, and includes over 30 pages of new spellcasters, rogues, lords, clergy, and other folk great and...

According to the monster-building rules, the proficiency bonus for a monster or NPC is based on its challenge rating. As I read it, this number becomes something that you only finalize after doing all the rest of the calculations for CR. So, all you monster and (especially) NPC designers, how...