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  1. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Monster Manual 2025 Stat Block Compilation

    Sure, it may be annoying. But I do hesitate to state definitively that copying 2014 would have been "no problem at all." Because they didn't leave it in. And if there wasn't a good reason, you are essentially arguing "The designers decided to make the game worse for the lulz of it" which is...
  2. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    Sure, and if like my next IRL game you are running a 2 player game, than using a boss monster of matching CR might be almost too much for them to handle. The game designers have stated that they balance around 4 PCs, because that is the average. If you are specifically changing things because...
  3. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    Yes there is. Just because a monster doesn't nearly TPK a party does not mean they did not have a rough fight.
  4. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    "Wizard with full buffs can only survive a single turn, possibly most of a round. Therefore monster is too weak" That's not how that is going to play at the table. The wizard player is not going to be going "Look guys, it took a legendary action to drop me to zero, I'm under no threat...
  5. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    A strawman is when you argue against a point that was not made, so you can knock it down and claim victory. I never made any claim about Adventurers becoming impotent. I never made any claim either way about the fight being the culmination of the adventuring day. If you would address the...
  6. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    But you haven't played at high level with the current monster designs. Notably, a lot of new monster designs for high CR enemies HAVE increased their damage. I'm not saying they shouldn't have more damage than they did in 2014. But there are levels here, a spectrum if you will, and I think the...
  7. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    At that point, don't put them in the game as a statblock. If they aren't meant to be fought, they shouldn't have a statblock
  8. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Testing against the Gold Dragon

    Thank you very much for this. It was an exciting read
  9. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Testing against the Gold Dragon

    My point is, people keep equating not banishing the same character repeatedly as not trying to win. Since Banish incapacitates, it is rather trivial to see the Dragon attempting to banish the cleric first (prevents healing and takes down any concentration buffs) then banishing the wizard next...
  10. Chaosmancer

    D&D General How Often Should a PC Die in D&D 5e?

    Yes. Obviously. You've had a fairly consistent group with little change for decades, if memory serves me. I've had dozens of groups over the last few years. My play experience has remained consistent across all of those players, which indicates something about how common the sentiment is. I...
  11. Chaosmancer

    D&D General How Often Should a PC Die in D&D 5e?

    I am very aware of the game Lanefan runs, as he is aware of the game I run. I am also aware that he has made plenty of statements regarding the state of the current game and his opinions on how it is bad for the health of the game moving forward into the future. I am not attacking him at all.
  12. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    There is a difference between "this is hard" and "we are essentially dead the moment initiative is rolled". I just don't understand why that is so hard for people to grasp. One sided stomps are not fun. And while people keep responding to that with "well, the players have many options to..." if...
  13. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Testing against the Gold Dragon

    Eh, I don't really think it is that bad for the dragon. In an actual game, the dragon is getting 6 rends, not 4, because you won't be soloing the monk. And the thing that gets missed in these discussions about "look how broken high level monks are" is they are constantly placing the monk in...
  14. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Testing against the Gold Dragon

    I really am stunned by the number of people that think banishing the wizard (polymorph, hold monster, forcecage, wish, ect ect) or the cleric (all the healing abilities, all the buffs, ect ect) or the Rogue (critical sneak attack) would somehow mean the dragon is throwing the fight instead of...
  15. Chaosmancer

    D&D General How Often Should a PC Die in D&D 5e?

    And IME wealth is the absolute last motivator for most of my players. Even when they make wealth motivated characters, they make them with the intention that that is a character flaw they need to overcome. Those Corollary motivators are the PRIMARY motivators for most of my games. Even the...
  16. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Monster Manual 2025 Stat Block Compilation

    To the Gelatinous Cube.... I'm not sure if it is much weaker. Less hp, but more damage from the psuedopod. Engulf damage cut in half, but it is possible to auto-fail. I might have missed more, but it seems only slightly weaker. Which might be good, CR monsters sometimes were stacked, and 87 hp...
  17. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Monster Manual 2025 Stat Block Compilation

    I'm not trying to dump on anyone for wanting to have the explanation. I'm pointing out that the level of concern seems unwarranted. People are acting like this will grind the game to a halt for thousands of tables across the country, and ruins the book. It just isn't that serious of an issue...
  18. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The New Monster Manual’s Ancient Gold Dragon

    Nice strawman. Poorly constructed, but looks pretty. 3) And they will hit. I don't understand how you keep missing this point. The current Tarrasque has a modifier of +19. Even if you stacked magical gear on yourself and used special abilities to get your AC up the 30, which is FAR beyond what...
  19. Chaosmancer

    D&D 5E (2024) Testing against the Gold Dragon

    Yeah, I likely would never use the Banishment on the same character twice in a row, unless they made themselves the only possible target. Just because you CAN do something, does not mean you should.
  20. Chaosmancer

    D&D General How Often Should a PC Die in D&D 5e?

    But what you are defining as "common-sense approach to self-preservation" is ignoring a significant number of factors. 1) Any PC, at all, would be able to live a wealthy middle-class lifestyle from level 1 and never go on a single adventure ever. Any fighter or Barbarian could be a guard or...
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