Now I regret my last post.
Here's an example of doing something worst to a character then killing them...
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0628.html
I thought more people would be in to this idea! Where are all the people who want monsters to be built under the same system as PCs? Surely they would not mind spending a session to build monsters hit die by hit die?? Where are all the lore head? Is there no better way to learn about the...
That's not a hard problem to figure out. There's obviously a Decanter of Endless Water in there somewhere.
Also, you could go ask Ed Greenwood about it. He probably has a page of lore about it got that never got published because most people don't care to ask questions about stuff like that.
Which is why I advocate that D&D needs to purge the weak from our ranks. To return it to it glory days when the strong played how they see fit and the weak were driven from the game.
Hey Enworlders! I just developed a great new idea that will move D&D forward!
How about once every ten (ish) or so sessions is spent completely on writing up NPCs/monsters? Like instead of the characters going to a dungeon or whatever, all the players spend the whole time writing up...