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I've never read Faction War, but the 5e treatment of Planescape certainly seems to imply that it's after FW to me. The fact that some factions have disappeared or been replaced by others, and some have faded into minor faction status, etc, and that all the old 2e ones are acknowledged as having...

Sounds like I really need to take a look at Shadowdark! A couple of notes: The sluglub is a homebrewed monster that is the result of alchemical pollution. If you had a big sink trap and never cleaned it, and it got full of slimy stuff and fibers and those came to life, animated by alchemy, that...

MANES DEMON Small humanoid (demon, fiend) AC: 9 Speed: 25' Hit Dice: 1d8 (4 hp) Immune to fire, poison. Death Burst: When reduced to 0, the manes turns into a cloud of foul green vapor that fills a 5' radius centered on its former location for 1 minute. A creature that starts its turn in...

That's fair, I guess. Is there anything that came before that the change invalidated, though? Was there an adventure that had something that didn't work or fit anymore?

Some posters keep conflating lore with metaplot. They're not the same, not at all. Metaplot is something like "This world-shaking cataclysm happens to campaign world X! Now everything is different!!1!!" It needn't be that extreme, but it's an event or events that future products assume happened...

Some of A, some of B.

Note: I don't think the kobold alchemist's tanglefoot bag and alchemist's fire are consistent with those in the gear section. KOBOLD Small humanoid (canine, kobold, lizard) AC: 12 Speed: 30' Shifty: Spend 5' of movement to not trigger OAs until end of turn. Hit Dice: 1d4 (2 hp) Str 7, Dex...

That's why I said "depends on what you mean by ranged brutes"- I mean, in 4e, brutes were specifically melee monsters, so if you're sticking to that definition, it's a bit like asking if there are any dogs that aren't dogs.

Depends on what you mean by ranged brute. If you mean something that is more effective at range than in melee, yes, absolutely- 4e had an entire category of monsters like this: artillery. The best example (which, unfortunately, doesn't have an exact equivalent in 5e) was the arbalaster (there's...

HELL HOUND Small or medium beast (fiend, dog) AC: 13 Speed: 40' Hit Dice: 4d8 (18 hp) Immune to fire Str 14, Dex 12, Con 13, Int 8, Wis 13, Cha 8 Senses: scent Languages: usually can't speak but understands Infernal Bite: +5 to hit, 1d6 piercing damage plus 1d6 fire damage. Pack Tactics...

Not to even mention homebrew. That's the real killer for me- any online system that won't easily support and integrate my homebrew material is a red hot failure for my game. I have too many custom races/species, subclasses, magic items, monsters, and spells to count. And my players and I use...

I have literally run Basic, 1e, 2e, 3e, and 4e adventures in 5e, adapting them by importing 5e stat blocks for monsters and traps, with no other real changes (except for those necessary to make it fit into my campaign setting). That doesn't mean they were all the same edition- it just means...

How about doubling healing, increasing many spells' damage, massively boosting monks, significantly increasing the abilities of other martials, completely rewriting a bunch of magic items, and changing the stats of many or all the monsters, including in ways that completely change how they play?

Charm person is 1st level. Charm monster is 4th level. I would say that, given that goblins are a quintessential first level foe, requiring a 4th level spell to charm them is a bit weird. On the other hand, bringing charm monster down in level makes it very overpowered.

Well, spells that target humanoids now don't work on them- things like hold person, charm person, etc. Which have always worked on them in the past.

To be clear- I am fine with variants of monsters having non-traditional abilities. A "stone golem forcecaster" with that stat block would be fine. Hell, I have dozens of variants of monsters that break their traditional molds in a lot of ways. But I prefer to have older versions, especially...

The stone golem: Again, not a huge fan of adding abilities that have never been there. And in this case, adding a ranged attack means it's harder for pcs to make meaningful tactical choices to make an encounter easier to manage. That said, there's a right way to do it. This isn't quite on the...

I'm still not over Drow as pcs. Also their seeming ubiquity. Drow should be scary monsters known only in legends and spoken of only in whispers. Personally, I only use them about once or twice per edition, and I treat them like 1e did before G3- nobody knows about them except for a few elven...

I am fine with monsters being multiple types, or having the same stat block representing multiple monsters via changing the Type line only- I have will-o-wisps as both Undead and Fey, for instance. I'd be fine with a simple paragraph in the MM suggesting that goblinoids (again, f'rex) could be...

But that doesn't have anything to do with their history in dnd. It's not a surprise, but it's still a disappointment. Goblinoids have been quintessential examples of "Humanoids" since before we even had actual creature types, and now they aren't. Not a fan.