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The fact that a tool is rarely used or rarely even needed is only one factor in determining whether it should be made available. Another factor is how necessary such a tool is when those situations do come up. Not proving necessary tools for a task means the task can't be performed. With...

Absolutely. Unfortunately they seem disinterested in coming up with a better presentation of the math, and would rather just leave future DMs with no information on how to make new monsters. And since they have their internal rules for monster creation, that makes it even sadder. It's not like...

Monster 2: Yuki-on-na For this monster, I'll be converting a monster from 2e and 3.0e. Converting monsters can actually be more difficult than making new ones, so we'll see how long it takes. Along with that thought, I'm not going to bother with organizing steps this time. I may try to work up...

Let me start by partially agreeing with the last points, then address the others briefly. The main problem with the 2014 DMG monster creation rules is organizational. In that sense, they are a microcosm of the 2014 DMG in general. All of the stuff is there, but if you aren't very familiar with...

Yes, CR isn't designed to compare PC level to monster power. But the point of this thread is to determine what CR a PC would convert to if it was treated like a monster and the math was run--which can be done. If you do that, then a PC of the same CR as the monster should be an even 50/50 chance...

No, because that would make the battle an even match: ie, the monsters are just as likely to win as the PCs.

I'm not sure what you're saying there. The way the values on that table work is you look at the average damage per round to see the starting line for offensive CR. Then as the text on same page says, if the creature's attack bonus is 2 or more above or below the listed one, you shif the...

I kind of have always done it similar to that. I think I have (or should have) characters make a roll if they want to make an intimidation check in combat, but I'm not sure I've been completely consistent with that when it comes up. I give people lore checks to see what they know about the...

Just noticed this. Even using Chrome, I can't get the display to work right. Under Draconic Lineage, right after "other effects which" the text jumps to another column that is off of the readable area to the right. You can see the few letters of this inaccessible page all the way down the right...

Insightful analysis, but I don't really want that result. I know it used to be that as characters and monsters got stronger they just better at resisting magic, and the source (caster, spell, etc) of the magic rarely mattered at all (other than the occasional spell that said you saved with a -4...

Honestly, I don't tend to blame anything when one of my characters dies. If they died in an interesting or funny way, I'll laugh and smile about. If course, resurrection magic has always been an option in every D&D game I've been involved in, though not without hassle or cost (we don't run it...

It is actually Waterdeep you were going to, lol! When my party was in Sigil the portal they ended up locating to Waterdeep actually required them to first take a portal to a forest in Elysium, then travel to a little village on the Oceanus, where they could swim down the bank dozens of feet...

Unfortunately the Planescape lore is really lacking on this sort of thing. It really took more of a DM railroad (or heavily bounded sandbox) attitude towards planar travel. So despite the apparent promise of being able to go anywhere, it's really more you can go anywhere your DM wants you to go...

There was one subclass in XGtE that stood out to me as a harbinger of change, as well as the book having presentation changes I didn't care for from previous works, but I think I really started seeing the changes of philosophy with MToF (so way before MMotM). It was a continuous slide into a new...

There is an impression out there that the monster creation rules in the 2014 DMG don’t work. I disagree. I haven’t had any problem making monsters with them, and there are others that can say the same thing. I’ll try to keep my rambling thoughts and theories in the footnotes(1) and focus on the...

Well, they have made 5.0e unavailable for new purchases, when you can currently buy all other editions in digital format, so there's that excuse to not like them if you liked 5.0e and don't want it to vanish into history. And that's not even counting gutting some of the material (like alignment...