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Possibly. But DMG, p. 85 says that double values should only be awarded in case of "otherwise weak monsters", which complicates things...

Absolutely. The notion of restraint being a thing does pop up when you’re trying to deal with crush/constriction… and the “continuing...

Definitely. In fact, if Appendix E has taught me anything, it’s that eyeballing it is the only sane thing one can do when allocating the...

Drat. I can't believe I've literally never seen that table before. From what I gather, it appears to be a very rough guideline for...

OK. Gotcha. Extremely curious to know where to find this table!

Blinding spittle is just another form of missile discharge, only with an effect other than damage. That said, blindness maps to an...

eah, I’d also go for the spittle being a missile discharge. In which case it wouldn’t be a “breath weapon” (well, dammit, it might, as...

Many more than that. Regardless of which edition of D&D we are talking about, assigning a "challenge rating" and thus a reward to...

Agreed. There’s a lot going on in Appendix E, and virtually nothing of it makes any sense. In fact, there’s only about two dozen...

Trying to avoid the “splitting” effects territory—and failing miserably Breath weapon or major breath weapon? DMG, p. 227: “Breath...