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This seems to be the way of things nowadays. Between four games I'm playing in or DMing there are two humans.

I mean since these are fantasy worlds doesnt' that mean its populations are imaginary numbers?

I generally do agree with this. I just think there's a middle ground between 'this monster has one consistent offense option' and 'good luck picking which spell to use, newbie'.

Oh, interested in hearing how that one goes.

It isn't getting at anything? It was just something I noticed.

To be fair I don't think there's a version of D&D where this isn't the case. Maybe 2E and BECMI/RC? 3E has legendarily bad balance, 4E's monster math took 3 monster manuals to correct, OD&D was more like suggestions than rules, and 1E is organized by the principle of Gary Gygax shrugging his...

It's not either/or. The new Archmage is also CR 12 but has both an Arcane Burst multiattack and some bite in its spell list. It also, ironically, has more hit points than the Legendary Archmage from Monster Manual Expanded 3, 170 compared to 130.

Any magic weapon that adds 2 dice worth of damage to every hit is a mistake. Learned that the hard way in my game when I let the artificer loot a black ice longbow from a dead eladrin archer. Luckily he was an artificer and not a ranger or a dex fighter.

Like I said, I like the new Banishing Claw action. My problem is that otherwise all of its offense is tied up in a very basic necrotic damage multiattack. To me you could fix the new version easily enough by just adding some damaging spells back to its Spellcasting.

Do you? A lot of the HP values for monsters in the 10 to 14 CR range were way too low in 2014. 104 is less than half the recommended 236 minimum for CR 12.

Do you just use the standard Tabaxi or Leonin for the Rakasta or do you have something custom?

This is the first time where I emphatically prefer the 2014 version. I like the enhanced HP and Banishing Claw actions, but the fact that all its offense is tied up in an Arcane Burst like multiattack makes it feel so lame. These things are supposed to be master spellcasters right?

Even though there's aspects of the new Monster Manual (and all the revised core books) I've been critical of, I really do like the art direction for the most part. Even though the lore entries have been shortened, the lore that is there is really solid. And some of the monsters I can definitely...

The yuan-ti fill that role for me. They make up 2% of the population but they're the ruling class of one of the Ten Nations.

Though now that I look at it, Vicious weapons in 2024 are Rare, not Uncommon. Still way too powerful IMO.

Who could have predicted this shocking turn of events!

I like the A5E term, Soul Vessel.

My homebrew setting was at an early 20th century era of advancement 80 years ago and had a gobal population of roughly 2 Billion. Then the world exploded. Well, not quite exploded, but broke apart. The gods preserved fragments of it and the surviving population was shoved together into these...

Isn't 3E also the edition that gave us a celestial paragon called Pistis Sophia, who was a giant blue winged woman with no clothing.

Echoing what others have said, but a DM's Toolkit that includes things to adjust play beyond the basic parameters. Maybe include that tactical module they promised us during the D&D Next playtest and then never delivered on, as well as dials and advice for running story based campaigns, sandbox...