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Choose one. It's gonna be between a +2 and +6 so just choose one to use. Or look at some other monsters that have basically the same amount of power you are making and copy that. It doesn't really matter. Your players are not going to care what the monster's attack bonus is, nor how that...

If it really matters that much, find a monster close to what you just made, see what they give as XP, and then give your monster that. I mean unless you are designing these monsters to be published... then anything you do for your home campaign does not need some sort of precision of any sort...

For me, all the editions feel like D&D to me... so trying to pair them up for similarity doesn't seem necessary.

Hey... you start it by calling my take cheap apologia... I'll call your take lazy.

Learning how to DM without just lazily following charts and expecting everything to work out is anti-DM? Interesting take.

And beside which... all 5E has to do is be more than 2E as compared to AD&D, 3E and 4E, LOL! No one is saying 5E and 2E are mirrors of each other... all that is being said is that 5E and 2E are more alike than 5E and the other editions. The two might only have 15% in common with each other...

You don't. You learn how the games works such that you don't need some artificial rating to point to. You know what your players and their characters can do. You in theory have been making encounters for them for weeks / months / years over all manner of campaigns. Just make a monster that...

So because you can pick out two of the hundreds of thousands of different aspects of both games that don't align... then neither game aligns at all? Interesting take. :D

Nothing.

You make an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer and cross out 'Charisma' under the Spellcasting Ability heading and write in 'Intelligence'. And then wherever you see the words 'Far Realm' in any of the fluff that you write down in your background or spells or whatnot... you come up with whatever other...

People ought to try just creating new monsters on their own without bending the knee to any set "process" someone else made for them. They'll get a better understanding of how monsters are built and will be better at judging things like "game balance" for their particular table rather than...

How "fast" one can make a character has always been one of those nuggets that makes me question exactly why that's so important to people. I mean if the purpose is to start playing the game as quickly as possible for fear that like potential new players would peace out too quickly if they...

I just like pointing out that probably 99% (hyperbole used) of posts here in the boards are just people talking about why D&D and WotC sucks, or why D&D and WotC are great... none of which actually accomplish anything of subtance. They are doing it purely to get the pat on the head from...

What difference does it make? There's nothing more pointless (hyperbole used) to argue against or defend for advertising and hype. It is an utter waste of time trying to "discredit" WotC for what they are saying or trying to "defend" WotC for what they are saying. Because we all know what...

I don't think they are lying and Mike doesn't think they are lying... but rather WotC is just choosing the best version of their situation to highlight in order to use it as promotion and advertisement. So they are being selective with their language to choose things that make it seem like...

That is very true and a good point. I think my thought process was that Xoriat seemed to be the first to make a "madness realm" an actual part of the base cosmology of a setting and thus the designers of 4E(?) took that success and incorporated it into the base cosmology of D&D (for 4E). The...

And more than enough reason for them to ignore all your complaints.

What seems the answer to me is that any species that are in the PHB as playable are not in the Monster Manual as monsters. Seems simple enough. Now sure, one will say that while dwarves in general are a playable species mentioned in the Dwarf section of the PHB but the specific duergar are not...

Sure. But you made a Reply to me, not the other way around. So you obviously had something you felt like you needed to say about mine. I only responded back to be polite.

I think the rest of us are strong-minded enough to know whether or not we are being manipulated, thanks. I don't need your protection on this matter.