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SSteady Vane reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Tidbit for monster design with
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This seems fairly obvious to me. They’re assuming PCs use standard array, and monsters always target the PCs’ weakest save, which at... -
SSteady Vane reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
agreed, it is as magical. They keep adding more effects that can only be explained by magic rather than anything that is distinctly for...
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SSteady Vane reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
yeah, as I said already, more magic that explains nothing
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SSteady Vane reacted to GobHag's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Man these statsheets are uninspiring as all hell.
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SSteady Vane 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 easy, because we already have that conversation in the green dragon stat block thread… The 2014 dragon is a creature with...
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SSteady Vane reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
oh, of course they were, but in the past I could see the creature behind the stat block and saw the stat block as a representation of...
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SSteady Vane reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I never tracked torches or food either, but the current iteration just does not feel grounded to me. In their effort to file off any...
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SSteady Vane reacted to Sword of Spirit's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I would like to see a little more respect for people who share his point of view (I agree with all of his points and more). I'm not an...
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SSteady Vane reacted to the Jester's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Little differences in the rule set can lead to huge differences in play. That said, I think there are pretty massive differences...
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SSteady Vane reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
yes, not that different, but the directional trend is there he said nothing even remotely like that… talk about exaggerating things…
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SSteady Vane reacted to kigmatzomat's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Fun fact: the CR4 guard captain doesn't add PB to ANY saving throws. Zero impact. But why would it? Its a bounded set of mechanics...
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SSteady Vane reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
so he liked 5e a lot, I assume he is therefore predisposed to also like 5.5, but somehow does not. Doesn’t that take something in 5.5...
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SSteady Vane reacted to kigmatzomat's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
What? No, the problem is there is a set of guidelines for what "CR4" means (+6 attack, 70ish hp, 30ish dam/rnd) but that the guidelines...
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SSteady Vane reacted to Laurefindel's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
To be fair however, that’s essentially what his quote was about: the style of play that benefited for his analysis is no longer really...
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SSteady Vane 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...