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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9210418" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>I actually did start statting up the goose, because I have Forge of Foes and enjoy such things, but I realized I should probably also get some sleep. I'm also extremely comfortable reskinning monsters, so for me, both "tarrasque" and "solar" are benchmarks that would have all of their flavor redone to match the NPCs in question. (And if I'd gone with Forge of Foes, both would be more powerful than the 2014 versions of each critter.)</p><p></p><p>I do think that having benchmarks in is helpful for DMs, even if detailed stats are not. But maybe there's a better way to convey such information. Asking the DMs to fill in all the blanks on what's going on in adventure can lead to confusion.</p><p></p><p>My Lolth figure in my second adventure was clearly set in the Demonweb Pits -- in my mind -- but zero people seem to have gotten that, so it clearly wasn't all that obvious. A benchmark like "use a mid-range demon lord's stats" might have helped, although not as much as "I'm trying to make Lolth creepier and weirder and not so much a sexy fantasy."</p><p></p><p>And yes, if I had to do it over, I would have made it clear that the First Orc explained how to restart the multiverse when asking the player characters to do it for him and exactly what the parameters of the reboot would be, to tempt players to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9210418, member: 11760"] I actually did start statting up the goose, because I have Forge of Foes and enjoy such things, but I realized I should probably also get some sleep. I'm also extremely comfortable reskinning monsters, so for me, both "tarrasque" and "solar" are benchmarks that would have all of their flavor redone to match the NPCs in question. (And if I'd gone with Forge of Foes, both would be more powerful than the 2014 versions of each critter.) I do think that having benchmarks in is helpful for DMs, even if detailed stats are not. But maybe there's a better way to convey such information. Asking the DMs to fill in all the blanks on what's going on in adventure can lead to confusion. My Lolth figure in my second adventure was clearly set in the Demonweb Pits -- in my mind -- but zero people seem to have gotten that, so it clearly wasn't all that obvious. A benchmark like "use a mid-range demon lord's stats" might have helped, although not as much as "I'm trying to make Lolth creepier and weirder and not so much a sexy fantasy." And yes, if I had to do it over, I would have made it clear that the First Orc explained how to restart the multiverse when asking the player characters to do it for him and exactly what the parameters of the reboot would be, to tempt players to do so. [/QUOTE]
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