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That was my first mistake, so thank you for this info. I will try that tomorrow and report back. I can't wait :) Update: It worked!

I can do the math easily, it's the formatting (of the post-MM3 Monster Builder) that's a challenge. I made a monster with "too many powers" so I can delete most of the template and still get something that "looks good". The crazy monster had six triggered abilities, with triggers such as "the...

I'd just like a decent Monster Builder. The beta offline version worked fine, but I cannot get Windows 10 to accept it. (Apparently installing in administrator mode and legacy mode simultaneously is impossible.)

I'll contact the DM in the group who uses the service. I know he uses it manually because sometimes he can't access it. (Yikes that was a huge PM! Even without an image.)

Could we see this screenshot?

In some D&D settings, members of a particular species may be "always chaotic evil" or "always this alignment". So a democracy of beholders is probably all lawful evil. I was thinking of the Star Control sci-fi video game setting when I spotted this sentence. In that setting, the Ilwrath are all...

The royals/elected government could tend toward one alignment, bureaucrats another, nobles others, churches others, municipal leaders others, the courts others, etc. In quasi-medieval D&D societies, governments are personal. If King Bob I, chaotic evil, dies and is replaced by King Bob II...

Solos don't exist in 3e, unless you're using Trailblazer. Beholders are "controllers" so they're squishy and won't last long without support. A beholder needs a lot of charmed allies to really be a threat. I used a beholder in 3.0 once. Back then they had even fewer hit points. By sheer luck it...

One of my least fun games in 2e involved a paladin as the only healer, at 1st-level. 2 hp of healing per day. The DM randomly salted healing potions all over the place, and putting aside the jarring suspension of disbelief, it still wasn't enough. This is rarely a problem in 3e, as someone will...

If the Forgotten Realms novels are any guide, drow... because drow are always "better than thou". They're like jerk elves. Oh wait, they are jerk elves. More seriously, skaven have psychological weaknesses. So do drow, but in skaven they're worse, and more predictable. Which isn't to say that...

TLDR: I don't mind deception against PCs, but Persuade and Intimidate I do mind. IMO, Persuade is for making deals, not making friends. If you agree to a "persuasion contest" with an NPC, and you lose, too bad, pay up. But you can choose not to deal with the silver-tongued shopkeeper...

I disagree with this. I'm a big reader of history (both real and fictional variants). One of my favorite pieces of historical fiction is Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Each kingdom had numerous commanders, ranging from those who could only fight, those who could do both, and strategists. Xu...

We had a PC in our Kingmaker campaign, a cavalier/bard. As a cavalier, he got a special horse (more HD, better stats, etc). We joked that the horse was more badass than he was and gave it the nickname "the Bloody". At a certain point, the player retooled his PC as a magus, though the concept...

I do a session 0, where the characters are discussed before gameplay, and not just in mechanical terms. Expectations are given (eg in my current campaign, all PCs are evil, but usually it's the opposite. They're usually told they're all friends who trust each other at the beginning. I've had a...

Homer Simpson has obviously low Int, and high Con and Charisma. Homer's stupidity and toughness are legendary, and people listen to him (even when they shouldn't). I think Peter Griffin is pretty similar (if you want proof he has high Charisma, just look at him showboating). Mr. Burns has low...

Unfortunately, as a skill, it wouldn't give mechanical benefits. It's basically flavor text, so just take the Profession (military officer) skill instead. For mechanical stuff, you get stuck with a small selection of divergent, mostly quasi-magical classes, which can give bonuses from good...

I think I saw a monster or two whose teeth did all three types of damage at once, but a weapon with its teeth as a component would lose the bludgeoning damage type.

I've only played with a few groups of players. They've almost always fought together as a team. Often they cannot work together outside of combat. (I don't allow that in any game I'm DMing.) We play more 4e than anything else, and healing isn't really a huge issue. (Healing is a minor action...

Number 2 for me. (I'm playing and running 4e.) DMs have the vote in this one though. If your DM likes 5e but the players like 3e, you're going to have a 5e game, because DMing is often a lot of work.

It's hard to talk about this without getting argumentative :( One of the worst parts of 4e is the bloat. Bloat, unfortunately, is part of every edition of D&D since at least 2e (which is the edition I started with). It's a problem with Pathfinder too. I hate 4e's CB, mostly because it's main...