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All the golems go berserk when they're bloodied.

What purpose does anything serve? Creature type is just a category - a descriptor. These lizardfolk are elementals because they've been altered by elemental magic to make them powerful.

It doesn't say anything specific that I can see about that, but I'm pretty sure that's covered in the DMG when they talk about reskinning or minor modding monsters. At any rate, it's a pretty standard thing to do. Seems reasonable to me. Sort of. It seems that all humanoids are represented in...

Like I said, it's starting to grow on me, but I will never see why we can't have both. Again - I'd rather the other way around. I want some Elf Archers (that I can use as "human" archers if I want) and all the rest. Would that seem like stereotyping? Maybe. IDK. Bad example, as both of those...

Yup. Both the Tough (remember: It's the same as the 2014 Thug) and the 2014 Orc are CR 1/2. They have twice as many HP and do roughly half the damage. They'll be less swingy to fight than a 2014 Orc (crits KILL with them) and it might take longer (maybe, the jury's still out on how OP 2024...

Four of them are 8 which is a shame in a way, yeah. Otherwise there's the usual 1/8 Cultist, 2 Fanatic, and a CR10 Heirophant.

I'll say that I didn't like it much, either, but it's starting to grow on me. It just means that people, whether they are humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, non-enhanced lizardfolk, orcs, etc, etc -- all use NPC statblocks based on the kind of jobs they do and the training that they have. Their...

It's not the regeneration, it's the Troll Limb. A bloodied troll who takes 15 slashing drops a troll limb (like a minion troll). I hadn't until Garrett's post made me look up the Troll, but I suspect that it's not the only one. I'll let you know if I spot any.

Vancouverites seldom do! (I myself had no idea where Port Moody was until faced with opening my store there, being an East Van kid. Of course, that was over 30 years ago!) Honestly, aside from the Skytrain, the biggest boon to my business (when it comes to getting people to come out to the...

Yeah, though sometimes they're elaborate historical hoaxes! And I imagine that many of them were from people finding skeletons of things they couldn't identify, such as the elephant-skull cyclops idea or, frankly, dinosaurs. I still think that it's amazing that we didn't have a proper concept...

While I'm obviously relieved, I am also ENRAGED. Like, really, truly furious in a way that I've nearly never been in my entire life. I can't say more under ENWorld rules, but... I am not happy with any part of any of this.

No, most are DEX, but a few have inexplicable bonuses (and a few appear to be "proficient" in INIT). I agree that I don't think that the "Monstrosity" - "Beast" separation is one worth having, but it's pretty clear: Beasts are real-life Animals, whether giant or prehistoric or whatever, and...

Yes, an earlier question asked about the Thug and Tough (they are the same). So yeah, Orc Toughs are going to be tough compared to the old Orc.

I honestly think, when it comes to PCs, that they will return at some point with some way of creating mixed heritages, but that the method they had for the playtest was (let's say "not good") and they didn't have "time" to replace it before publication. When it comes to monsters, well...

Magical fusion created by dragons. It does say "as servants", so it's not without its problematic issues, but not quite the same as "half-orcs" or "half-ogres" in traditional assault-based lore.

I don't know how or why you'd use it instead of butter, but it's certainly possible to use it as well as. I make a very delicious "apple-melt" that uses butter on one side of each slice (the side that goes down in the frying pan), and mayo (thin-coat!) on the inside. Then cheese, grilled...

They are, but they are literally magical fusions and not "breeds" of anything. Half-ogres' lore often implied... bad stuff, no matter how you look at it, frankly.

Sure. It actually makes more sense when you read it. For lizardfolk, the conversion guide suggests that a regular "lizardfolk" would use the "scout" stablock (and, I presume, any other humanoid NPC block, for various humanoid-lizardfolk. The MM page for Lizardfolk explicitly states that...

By the way, everyone: If you want further details on anything than I reply, feel free to fire more questions. I don't think I'd quite be willing to type out a stat-block, but I'm happy to answer follow-up questions if you find my first answer to lack something that you're curious about.

Marauder (CR1) and Psion (CR8).