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Gotcha gotcha. Actually what I thought was interesting are the specific “jump” points in different monster hp/ac/damage/saves by level, and how those vary across the three sources!

No I have not, but I think our GM ran it with another group and spoke highly of it.

I thought side-by-side comparison of 2014 DMG guidelines, Blogofholding's 2018 monster chart, and then his 2025 monster chart would be interesting...

Dolmenwood is phenomenal, you're in for a treat. I'm playing in online Foundry-based game currently. I know our GM has supplemented with blogs/generators/adventures from OSR and Gavin Norman. Fantastic locations, monsters, food/drink and general weirdness, and everyone is having a blast with...

Someone else will have to field that, as I didn't get 2024 books, and am only going off of Roll20/DnDBeyond sources that are publicly available.

Ah, my mistake, thanks. Corrected my post.

I'm hopeful that 2024 D&D stewards a lot of new players into the game as a communal/shared activity and encourages/supports a lot of new GMs. Their approach with shorter adventures, more public play, and more teacher/club support is great. Hats off to the folks pushing that front (I know Shawn...

For everyone saying "that's too many magic items", consider the 2024 magic items by level guidelines. By 18th level, the party can be expected – according to those guidelines from 2024 DMG – to have accumulated (not created) the following between them all during the campaign... 19 Common items...

Did they roll back completely on Legendary Reactions? Because if those are still present in 2024 MM monsters, and you have a 2014 PC with reaction-denial like shocking grasp, that's one hiccup you need to figure out. What about the "it's a spell but it's not a spell" abilities, are those...

With this particular stat block, there's a clear step backward in the omission of "AC 14 (or 11 while prone)" from the new 2024 stat block. Including weaknesses for players to exploit against monsters is just good play. Haven't seen that go wrong. IMO not enough examples of fun weaknesses in...

At least Genies are in one place like Mephits…. Oh… oh wait. ;) Thank you for doing all that looking up and reporting back Merric!

I guess I can see that. For me there's a pretty stark contrast between TSR D&D up through 2nd edition and WotC D&D beginning with 3rd. I can see why players who were very into 3e and/or 4e would say 5e is "rulings over rules", but when I think of my 2nd edition days... hoooo boy those games...

It’s interesting that you went to mechanics first as where you get that 2nd edition feel from. For me, 2nd ed was all about the lore and just going crazy with lore. By my completely anecdotal/personal metric, 5e’s lore is anemic in comparison. Thus, on that front, I would disagree with Chris...

EDIT: Oh shoot, that last paragraph wasn’t supposed to be there! (I copy-paste from the RotFM adventure when guiding my area descriptions but then I deviate from that according to our game needs, and I must have forgotten to delete that). Fixed it now! Thank you for catching it Taran!

Definitely the Forge of Foes! The core maths were released as open content: The Lazy GM's 5e Monster Builder Resource Document

No problem. The giants rats are not attacking. They're responding like wild animals usually do to people...dashing away a safe distance (west toward the split-T passage) and then watching to see what you do next. Generally here's how I do initiative for PbP... There may be an "inciting event"...

My mistake. Will correct when next posting map and have time. If it’s “want to kill rats”, no need initiative. If it’s “want to attack cultists”, yeah we’d do initiative. Initiative is set for the PCs (you don’t roll). I roll for monsters (using a tighter bandwidth). Details in house rule...

I posted in the IC just to keep it moving: (IC) Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden