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SSulicius reacted to Pedantic'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 think you're catastrophizing a little here. There's usually a little more going on, particularly in a gaming situation where setting... -
SSulicius reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
If you complain about X on boards like this and other people's responses are "Do Y instead"... you just have to deal with that. If that...
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SSulicius reacted to BenjaminPey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Nope. I don't. We all have slightly, sometimes hugely different expectations and needs about this game. In fact, those MM24 monsters are...
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SSulicius reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
If they all have the same monster role. 2014 gave monsters different unofficial roles but messed up the math. 2024 gave monsters the...
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SSulicius reacted to Teemu's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
"AC and hp and saving throws -- grounded, simulationist, I feel connected to the game world, I love it." "Guard has 18 STR instead of...
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SSulicius reacted to plecostomus's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Oh yeah, I just meant this specific blog post about how mechanics are prioritized over narrative in 2024. The tables could be useful for...
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SSulicius reacted to plecostomus's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
RE- People not reading the rules when they run the game and getting confused by monster blocks - I want to share what may be an...
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SSulicius reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Just to zero in on this, I think this helps us zero in on what the designers are goijg for: with Claw and Bite, you had basically better...
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SSulicius reacted to BenjaminPey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
But dragons spit things, don't they? Isn't it kind of their thing? And spitting a ball of poisonous stuff is in fact kinda believable...
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SSulicius reacted to BenjaminPey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
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...
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SSulicius reacted to dave2008's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
IDK. We have 1 page of houserules (which I have shared on these forums several times). That is the least amount of houserules we have...
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SSulicius reacted to BenjaminPey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I am this guy. Though I did read the DMG, multiple times. In my book, streamlining this kind of things is 100 % beneficial to the game...
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SSulicius reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Not to be overly flippant, but both are highly abstract mathematical models to use in a wargame scenario, that some flavor can be hung...
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SSulicius reacted to DrJawaPhD's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I must be blind because I'm not seeing much negativity from either side here. Seems to me like pretty reasonable debate from both...
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SSulicius 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.
My issue with a lot of reactions to 2024 is that I transitioned mid-campaign and my players didn't even notice right away. For that...