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The same reason people watch the news, doom scroll, or pick fights over inane subjects on niche forums.

until the 5e version is out, I do not really know if it is better, good enough, or a failure. Even if I end up preferring the 2e version...

Oh yeah, it's a good read. Applying logic and reason to give the statblocks life really was something special. "This is how the creature...

They also still breath poison, in a cone. The Miasma is new and something they conjure up in a 30 foot radius, up to 90 feet away...

I am fine with eliminating trap options, but that is not what happened in this case, the 2014 stat block read "Multiattack. The dragon...

it's the best explanation I came up with (outside of 'magic'), that it lobs a ball of poisonous spit to some place, but that does not...

I for one very much enjoyed The Monsters Know What They Are Doing, precisely because it helped me tremendously to DM a 5E game. And I...

that does not make it a toolkit, it makes it less tightly designed and more just stuff you threw at the wall until some of it stuck

agreed, it is as magical. They keep adding more effects that can only be explained by magic rather than anything that is distinctly for...

then D&D isn’t D&D either, instead there were several very different games using that trademark to sell more units

yeah, as I said already, more magic that explains nothing

except that it can appear up to 90 feet away in a location the dragon can see… if it were centered on the dragon I would not have an...

The 2014 ones that are near identical or the newer ones?

I agree with the goal, just not the execution. If you can have two claw attacks or one bite, make sure they both hit their CR instead of...

oh yeah, of course they are, 2024 is too abstract and too ‘random’ for me however. I can see the benefits too, a generic Rend lets you...