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Correct, unfortunately. You can make an attack at advantage and deal them a Critical Hit if you hit. Then if it was a PC who hit zero HP, next round you can try to hit them again with advantage, That hit counts as 2 of 3 death saves and it 'could' kill them outright if the crit deals them...

Thanks, sounds like they are jumbo minotaurs. Shame they didn't get to keep the rock lobbing of Cloud giants ( Dragon Magazine #91 ).

Is the Goristro Huge or Gargantuan?

Morale is Free XP. Monsters are statted up to fight to the last HP. Also animals and bestial monsters in a world where all wounds heal overnight will be FAR more aggressive. Without lasting wounds and infections, the more aggressive representatives of a breed don't get Darwined out of the gene...

No. Game devs have screwed most ways to crank up AC so most PCs get hit by monsters under the Bounded Accuracy concept.

When a monster is born with lethal weapons and is actively hostile, it is a threat to be put down, sentient or not.

http://christopherburdett.blogspot.com/ Interesting design, with the almost rooster like appearance. Though I hope the beakyness disappears when they mature into salamanders.

If you didn't have some other way of getting out of melee, Bladeward might have potential. Heck since you get easily refreshed Temp HP, taking some hits for the team might not be the worst idea possible.

So what is the size of the Kraken's base? Those sharks for scale sure make it look like it ought to be waaay bigger than 20'x20'.

I think it looks cool enough if they want to try a new look for the kraken. Not like it will be hard for the DM to describe it the old way if that's preferred. Also since chopping off a Kraken's tentacles is kinda tradition, it is probably for the best that the monster still looks to be a...

Heat metal. No save involved if you target their armor and the victim then has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks for the duration as long as you don't mind using your bonus action to keep the 2d8 damage going each round..

Anyone else feel individual initiative is more trouble than it's worth? With the removal of the Delay action* and the overly punitive way Ready takes away your reaction, I've been feeling like rolling the right order in initiative is the hardest part of many fights and that just a single roll...

Hex battlemap, Dwarvenforge Gametiles, floot tiles and whatever terrain I cobble together. I wouldn't mind giving Theater of the mind more use, but that also really benefits from party initiative instead of individual initiative and that's like pulling teeth with the rest of the group who...

Real question is What Incapacitates?

I think they are too glass cannony, not to mention too much jerk ass in design. Hyper random One shot take out with a follow up Possession that kills you in a way that prevents Raise Dead.

Cover making you significantly harder to hit. 4 points for half cover felt worth taking up round to go for. 2 points feels like a subtle encouragement not to bother going for cover in 4E. In 5E bounded accuracy means changing anything can get cause messy quick.

ONETWOTHREE DEATH!!! Sadly the acid is just another attack now, with even a recharge so using it sooner rather than later is beneficial. I've always liked the notion of some monsters having desperation moves. :] Anybody else reminded of the mantis shrimp's claws?