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Quick question for folks with new MM, that’s math adjacent: I understand some monsters hit harder, for example frost giant dealing cold damage in addition to a physical damage type. In the case of man-sized creatures dealing only B/P/S damage, which have higher damage in 2024, is there a...

Thank you for the review Beth! Does anybody know if there are species templates in the new MM which can be applied to the various NPC stat blocks? For example: [goblin] mage The 2014 DMG had a couple species templates that described how to make a NPC of a given species.

I forgot how much I enjoy your thought process, Kamikaze. Always a pleasure hearing your feedback and views. Yes, a future product that they can't discuss yet involving fey or fey goblins would make a lot of sense. Uff, yeah that's confusing. But some kind of a goblin species template applied...

Sorry for delay writing back to you all! Between health/insurance challenges and trying to help some folks being affected by recent changes in U.S., my time for games is being eaten up. Really good questions! I didn't expect so much response or to be so contentious, and I'll try to address main...

@ezo What was your reason for wanting to give this player character a CR value?

Finally got a chance to read/watch a bit about the 2024 Monster Manual fey video. I’ll start by saying something positive – Jeremy Crawford & Wesley Schneider’s enthusiasm for the new MM really shines through the talk, and I’m appreciative of the obvious passion they’ve poured into the book. The...

Obviously take CR with a heavy grain of salt, and trying to create the CR of a PC with an even heavier grain. Depending on your purpose in this exercise, i’d recommend calculating defensive CR with the resistance, and then without the resistance to get two separate values of which I would take...

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...