D&D 5E Monsters for 5e Basic rules

[Nebulous]

Pack Tactics: The hoar fox gains a cumulative +1 bonus to attack rolls, to a maximum of +5, for each friendly creature that is within 5 feet of its target.

Do gnolls pretty much get this same (fearsome) ability too?

 

[I'm A Banana]

FWIW, at LV 1

• Max HP: 5-14 (avg ~ 10)
• AC: 9-19 (avg. ~ 14)
• Attack Bonus: -1 to +5 (avg. ~ +1)
• Damage: 1d4-1 to 1d12+3 (avg. ~ 6)

Given that, you should be able to arrive at monster stats that accomplish what you want. Like, most monsters should probably have about +3-+5 to hit, and deal about 1d8 damage per hit (2 hits KO most characters) have an AC in the 11-12 range, and HP of about 10-12, too (two hits kill them). Weak critters like gobbos can have 5-6 hp and deal 1d4 damage per hit.

 

[Grazzt]

Pack Tactics: The hoar fox gains a cumulative +1 bonus to attack rolls, to a maximum of +5, for each friendly creature that is within 5 feet of its target.

Do gnolls pretty much get this same (fearsome) ability too?

Something does. Gnolls, wolves, etc. I originally saw it somewhere in the playtest docs I think.

 

[Savage Wombat]

If you took the Ogre and Hobgoblin stats, and compared them to the playtest version - could you get a benchmark for how much to tweak the playtest bestiary for balance? Seems to me a rule like "+1 to hit, +1 to AC, +50% HP" would be easy to apply for the nonce.

 

[Warbringer]

....would be easy to apply for the nonce.

I truely hope there are exactly 0 nonces attracted to the game!!!

 

[Grazzt]

If you took the Ogre and Hobgoblin stats, and compared them to the playtest version - could you get a benchmark for how much to tweak the playtest bestiary for balance? Seems to me a rule like "+1 to hit, +1 to AC, +50% HP" would be easy to apply for the nonce.

Probably works. HP definitely got a boost from the play test docs.

 

[caudor]

Until something more official comes out, I think I'll just use this conversion method for 3.5/Pathfinder monster to 5e:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...athfinder-monsters-to-D-amp-D-Next-on-the-fly

 

[mechascorpio]

I'm not sure how much the monster stats have changed since November, but this page for Legacy of the Crystal Shard include stat PDFs for 3.5, 4E and Next. About 35 monsters in all.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/sundering2

A comparison between this LotCS Next doc and the Starter Set monsters suggests taking the numbers from this doc and nudging the HP up a bit, perhaps the same with AC.

 

[caudor]

If you took the Ogre and Hobgoblin stats, and compared them to the playtest version - could you get a benchmark for how much to tweak the playtest bestiary for balance? Seems to me a rule like "+1 to hit, +1 to AC, +50% HP" would be easy to apply for the nonce.

Good idea. I think I'll just run with this one.