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For whatever it's worth, here's how I ran the monster maths from 2014 DMG with your half-orc rune knight: TOTAL CR = (9 + 7) / 2 = 8 DEFENSIVE CR 9 effective hp = 112 + 14 treating Relentless Endurance as DMG treats Undead Fortitude (for expected CR 5 to 10) x 1.5 Hill Rune resistances to...

Oooo, I have rough draft un-tested stats for a mushussu dragon I wrote up that you can pillage ideas from... "Initially invulnerable" sounds a lot like a "trick monster" where the players need to puzzle out the trick / weakness / strategy to harming the monster. Maybe the Mastermind Rogue...

GM POST It's difficult to say which is more nerve-wracking – clinging to your goblin ally shapeshifted into a massive hairy-legged spider up the shaft dropping into darkness or riding the rickety bucket lift operated by the kobolds turning a creaking crank. Only Jack, with his gossamer wings...

Strongly negative impression of design discussed here…even if I would not call it transparent (it took multiple listens to figure out the bias they have), at least the goals are being spelled out. Will put up my own critique post in more detail.

I’m holding off on advancing scene a bit, because I wanted to give anyone else a chance to chime in and especially if you wanted to respond to happylace’s wild post: (IC) Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden

The ship has sailed on this idea for mainstream 5e, but if an early design philosophy was: “We can allow some casters to use spells that are unique to NPCs they encounter, but we don’t want to spend time balancing NPC spells to PC spells, so we’re going to include some other limited-use...

Going up against a gold dragon, a paragon of wisdom and goodness? Clearly they’re an evil party and Elidira has somehow dominated the light cleric. May the dragon teach them the err of their wicked ways! #teamgold

100%, absolutely. Simplification isn’t the end goal, rather ease of use at the table is; that’s the why of simplification. With this change it feels like somebody lost the plot on why they were doing this work. That’s interesting! I’ve had the reverse experience - newer GMs or GMs from other...

While I completely agreed, oh how I agree and then some, here’s a (only slightly jaded) perspective… We know about the digital push & they had a team member responsible for providing feedback on new rules to make digital integration smoother. If you want a digital monster to drop loot, say as...

Seconding Worlds Without Number that @Imaro suggested - it’s fantastic for sandbox The Perilous Wilds (Jason Lutes, Lampblack) is another excellent resource for procedural generation. So is his playtest Freebooters on the Frontier. Any Judges Guild material you can find is also excellent...

After reviewing several pages on DPR estimations, here is my thought: I like that this gold dragon has Word of Recall & Zone of Truth, because when I’ve used a gold dragon it was an ally to the PCs (and its fight vs a red dragon happened “narratively” while PCs undertook their quest), so those...

There’s a few things I like in the new stat blocks but tons that I don’t like. Specifically in regards to the Shapechange qualifying text, I really don’t like it. Because the spell shapechange (a) is a total stat block swap out, and (b) the (2014) spell language is really player facing in a way...

D&D is really getting a glow up, just like we were told. ;)

Cross brand licensing.

I also have objections to the layout/format of the stat blocks, but I've already posted extensively on that with before/after examples of my preferences: D&D 5E - Radically shrinking stat blocks I didn't want to weigh down the thread by duplicating my opinions, but I'm there on record if it's of...

Sure, so I've had problems with 3 "categories" of overwritten monsters. (1) There are monsters that have "too much writing devoted to one ability"; my most recent example (from the last live 5e game I ran, since then it's just been PbP Rime of the Frostmaiden) is the intellect devourer's Body...

Hey Dave! Likewise, I always am interested in your approach and respect the effort you put into your own monster making process. I have a lot to learn from you! It might be easier if we talk about a specific monster…if that’s not derailing this thread…Because the overall argument I have can be...