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As someone learning and DMing a 1e game right now, I am regretting adding weapon specialization to my table. It has wildly imbalanced...
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Plenty of 5E NPCs are also classed, they even started adding it as a tag like (demon) or (titan). What a lot of us (I think) are wary...
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Didn't 1e have a whole bunch of them in the DMG that weren't really statted out anywhere? (Sage, Alchemist, and the like). In any...
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Yeah, that’s pretty much what my stat blocks look like. I remember when D&D would list every spell a caster had memorized, and I...
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This is basically what I ended up coming up with a system to do. Link: PC-like NPC chart It's on the DM's Guild, but PWYW and the...
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In houserule terriroty DM reign as the sole monarch in its kingdom, so a monster or NPC can be can be made or modified at whim. As DM i...
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I'm team "NpC casters should use custom spells/abilities." I am not the least bit interested in combing through books to find just the...
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Maybe someone else mentioned it but there is at least one 3PP product that provides CR 1 to 20 NPCs of every class. This may not be...
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Yeah, I can’t imagine spending an hour whipping up one NPC. Or rather, I could, but that’s absolutely not what I want to be doing.
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Yeah, this is annoying. I often end up modifying NPC statblocks to make them more PC-like, and I do not love that the 5.5 design has...
Sep 1, 2025
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I don't know why I am still surprised when someone responds in opposite ways in back to back posts.
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Also you can more or less just use the rules from those games. It's close enough.
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There are a lot of folks who have reverse-engineered the math in the new monster manual, and it seems like the benchmarks really haven’t...
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This is in general, but seems 5E intended. I loved the NPC codexes that Paizo pout out for Pathfinder. Id look to them in the DMs Guild.
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