D&D (2024) D&D Monster Manual (2025)

[Micah Sweet]

Yes, and definitely needed. People have been using max HP on higher CR monsters for a long time. The increased HP with the increased damage pretty much eliminates the need to make those modifications (of course every table is different)

Haven't people been complaining about monsters having too many hit points for years now? Has all that just gone away?

 

[dave2008]

No monster building rules huh? A lot of folks seemed to be looking forward to those.

Yep, some higher CR monsters have gotten a significant boost. It may be harder to reverse engineer than I thought - but I am going to give it a try! They great thing is the CRs remain the same so that should help.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Haven't people been complaining about monsters having too many hit points for years now? Has all that just gone away?

I personally have never seen that complaint for 5e before and often have to increase the hit points of monsters in my games in order for them to be a challenge.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yep, some higher CR monsters have gotten a significant boost. It may be harder to reverse engineer than I thought - but I am going to give it a try! They great thing is the CRs remain the same so that should help.

Any speculation as to why they decided not to let the fans know how to build monsters?

 

[dave2008]

Haven't people been complaining about monsters having too many hit points for years now? Has all that just gone away?

Different people complain differently and for different reasons. Anyone who remotely optimizes complains they have to little and don't hit hard enough. The complaint for to many HP is that if they can't hurt the PCs or don't have interesting things to do they are just a "big bag of hit points." That sometimes get interpreted as to many HP, but it has more to do with not being a threat or interesting threat to the PCs.

IMO, more HP are needed to help monster stay around to do the interesting things in its statblock

 

[dave2008]

Any speculation as to why they decided not to let the fans know how to build monsters?

They only one I have heard is the hope it is coming in a forthcoming book that will have all kinds of alternate and optional rules. One could speculate on other reasons, but I don't really see the need.

Besides, it is not like TSR ever gave us monster creation rules and I still made custom monsters in 1e!

 

[mamba]

He said he didn't spend much time on it and didn't explain it at all.

I understood it to mean how to convert 2014 monsters to 2024 buffs

 

[dave2008]

I understood it to mean how to convert 2014 monsters to 2024 buffs

That is a definite possibility, but the video didn't go into detail. It seems to be a safe assumption; if so, it would give some insight into the new monster math.

 

[Minigiant]

Any speculation as to why they decided not to let the fans know how to build monsters?

Because the formula and monster building rules, if they are to be anyway close to accurate in play, is way too complex for all but the most veteran number crunchers.

 

[darjr]

Why isn't great club under gear?

Because PCs can't use a Huge sized great club

It is a great club for Cyclops, but for medium size creature it is most likely a tree trunk or stone pillar

I could carve a boat out of it.

How cool would that be?