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Well, there weren't rules for it, but it was certainly expected that dms would homebrew monsters. That's why the first Monstrous Compendium volume had a blank monster sheet in it.

I could, but this is such a basic component of dming that I feel like the designers really ought to include it. It's different in early editions, where there really is no math behind monster creation, but since 3e, there have very clearly been guidelines or rules that the designers use. Keeping...

If that's what it takes, fine. Monster creation is one of the major aspects of DMing. It should be covered in enough detail for a novice dm to make a monster that holds up to scrutiny.

I've seen this mentioned a couple times. As I understand it, this is from some interview or online video, right? If it's not in the books, you can't expect people to know this. I certainly didn't, and hadn't heard of it for the vast majority of the time 5e is out. "We told you in a video on...

Or tune it up to make it more enjoyable. Again, taking away all the beverages you serve because some people complain that a few of them are bad is poorly considered, to put it mildly.

It certainly shouldn't be. If the DMG doesn't tell DMs how to do it themselves- "doing it" including crafting their own monsters- it's not much of a guide for DMs at all. (With the caveat that if those specific rules are in the MM, that's probably okay.)

If you go to a restaurant and they stop serving any kind of beverage, it doesn't matter if they added 30 food items. They've still made a horrendously bad choice.

I have less of an issue with some features being maybe slightly over or undervalued and more of an issue with a lack of guidance concerning things like paralysis, petrification, and other effects that essentially bypass hit points. Include those, and I think the 2014 monster creation guidelines...

The chart was only one part of a far more robust process that can put out very interesting and cool monsters. Just reading the numbers off the chart was a bad approach, but is sufficiently accurate to allow off-the-cuff improvisation in the moment when the DM throws out an impromptu encounter...

The monster creation rules have only ever been in the Monster Manual in 3.5. In every other edition with monster creation guidance and a system more robust than "just write down whatever"- which is to say, everything after 2e- it has been in the DMG.

God I hope so.

Got the new DMG today and I looked at the Making a Creature section. Let's just say that if the rules for monster creation aren't in the MM instead of this extremely deficient garbage, I am probably giving up on the 2024 rule set. I haven't been real happy about the direction of the game in...

That's how my game rolls. 5e has a lot of elements that help enable mixed level play, and the fact that levels 1-3 fly by is a big piece of it. You have to be judicious to pull it off, but I vastly prefer pcs whose history happened through play.

I actually have an every-seven-year migration of digesters (from 3e) in one area of my campaign (and probably elsewhere, but it's only come up in the one place). I can imagine tons of other monsters migrating, especially Beasts.

It was my homepage back in the day.

My favorite moment was One. Certain. Step.

I just wish Anglophone gamers could learn to pronounce "coup de grace" and not "coup de gras".

Thanks, TIL!

What is a flat white? I've never heard the term used except when describing colors.

OMG, as a dog and cat owner, this is super relatable. This may be the cutest episode of OotS ever.