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Deekin reacted to Sorinth's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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I mean the difference between a Strength of 20 & 21 is for all intents and purposes nil. If it was a Str of 20 would everything about... -
Deekin reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
It might go back to that old "player vs. DM" mindset...ya know, the mentality that they are going to somehow "beat the DM" and then "win...
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Deekin reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
That looks a lot more to me like the problem was the monster not having the same number of actions as the party. And as he calls out in...
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Deekin reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I mean, I'll use the warrior commander just as some goon who poses a suitable challenge for the party. If they run into him at lower...
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Deekin reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Or maybe the new books are actually really good, and I just don't agree with someone whose products I previously liked (and still like)...
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Deekin reacted to Epic Meepo's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Ban starting ability scores above 12 (before bonuses from backgrounds)? Use point buy stat generation with 9 points instead of 27? I've...
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Deekin reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Ironically due to 10 HD, a guard Captain really should have a proficiency bonus of +4 not +2. So if you increase the proficiency bonus...
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Deekin reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
spirit animal companions spectral wings with no downsides, respeccing things on a long rest subclasses at level 3 Those are all due to...
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Deekin reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
That is what Keith’s post read like to me, that 2024 leaned into epic fantasy moreso than 2014 and to the detriment of everything else...
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Deekin reacted to Chaltab's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
True, but we're talking about a CR 4 NPC whose stats resemble those of a level 10 PC martial (having 10 hit dice, two attacks, and 18...
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Deekin reacted to occam's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I get some of what he says, but he expends a lot of words in the longest paragraph of your quote complaining about NPCs with ability...
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Deekin reacted to Mephista's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Amusingly enough, the definition of Elemental from the MM25 is still "hails from the elemental planes." Which is at odds with how...
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Deekin reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It makes sense. 5e monsters have always been balanced around the assumption of lasting 3 rounds of combat, but some monsters didn’t...
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Deekin reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It seems like the best way to make NPCs and monsters make more sense in the context of the world, including their ability to challenge...
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Deekin reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I think another issue with simulationists that have a low fantasy narrative tint to their thought is that, they have not ever figured...