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That's a college try for sure! Two things are working against the annotated short-form of this monster. First, I think A5E in particular - where that stat block comes from - has a more complex design (compared to 2014 5e) that makes shrinking stat blocks more difficult. Ambusher, Ruthless, and...

It has always irked me that there's no magic-using class that's designed to be low complexity in D&D. At least in the groups I've run for, there was pretty much always a desire (and a need) for that.

Ah it's a Lonely Mountain without the Mountain Dwarves...

Nice! Putting it into practice! 🤓 I just started trying to integrate working iteratively between a bigger detailed writeup and an annotated writeup of the same monster – noticing where things in my long-form version just don't translate to the annotated version, and seeing how I can make it...

Yeah, shorthand is... well you can go crazy with that, and it's very personal. Your single-line is pretty minimal but I like that! I've been playing around with a short/in-line text format for my own projects that looks like this (in current draft form)... still a bit heavy, though I...

@DinoInDisguise Interestingly, the Ancient Green Dragon (2024/25) has DEX save proficiency +8, and it's Initiative happens to be +8. I do understand the counterarguments from @Charlaquin and @Steampunkette in that having just one number is zooming out on the lens, so there's less tight...

Gotcha. I'm curious, is the "Proficiency Bonus" entry something you use when running monsters?

Thanks Shardstone! I'll have to check it out :geek: Mike Mearls has been on a tear with monsters recently.

:ROFLMAO: I appreciate the sentiment of what you're saying. It's difficult to parse where the line here is between opinion and actual improvement, as there are definitely things that are improvements (CR/XP in the top line), and definitely things that are opinions, but there's a great deal of...

I'm kind of tempted to leave out the melee/ranged language entirely. I know there are corner case stat blocks where it does matter, but it's basically putting rules language on what seems self-evident. "Shortsword" and "Melee Attack" are redundant, because all shortsword uses by a monster are...

4e also was when D&D implemented an icon language to communicate certain things – typically areas of effect like bursts/blasts and recharge dice. I've wondered about "order of information" in the 5e / modern D&D stat blocks. For example, one of the first questions a GM asks when there's a...