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Not really - if you double their hit points, they still come out ahead monsters without Insubstantial. Just not as much (i.e. by 100%, which would be the jump from normal to elite, hit point-wise).
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Not really - if you double their hit points, they still come out ahead monsters without Insubstantial. Just not as much (i.e. by 100%, which would be the jump from normal to elite, hit point-wise).
The rules in the DMG are just rough guidelines to produce approximately correct monsters, not hard in-depth rules, i.e. they wanted it that way.Ether they wanted it that way or they totally botched the MM. I honestly don’t know which. I have just come to accept it and treat it like 1e monster design… just hand weave some random numbers and see if it works. : (