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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8898540" data-attributes="member: 57383"><img src="https://www.enworld.org/attachments/cyclopskin-jpg.272547" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Okay, it still has too many Hit Points and I feel its Armour Class is too high.AC 15 is the same as a 5E Troll, while the AD&D-ish original monster had AC 6, two points easier to hit than an AD&D Troll and the same as an average Orc.I'd prefer AC 13.For the Multiattack, I'd phrase it "The cyclops makes three attacks: two with its claws and one with its bite, or it makes two attacks with its morningstar."All the melee attacks should be +6 to hit, not +7, and I'd have the Morningstar do the normal 2d8+4 damage rather than add a +2 proficiency bonus rider. That way its average DPR is identical with both Multiattack Options (one does 4d6+12 and the other 4d8+8, for a 26 average both ways).I ran both sets of numbers through the CR Calculator.The AC 13/76hp/+6 to hit version came out as Challenge 3.The AC 15/95hp/+7 to hit version came out as Challenge 4.Both those don't make allowance for the Hypnotic Glare, the closest equivalent that I can toggle on the <a href="https://5e.tools/crcalculator.html" target="_blank">CR Calculator</a> is Web, since that's the only single target "reduce opponent's combat abilities at a distance" power on the tools' Monster Features list. Adding Web didn't increase the CR for the above Cyclopes.Adding Aggressive didn't make any difference to the CR either, with or without Web.Oh, Aggressive is listed as a Trait, not a Bonus Action. At least in the Monster Manual.But then the Monster Manual doesn't have a Bonus Actions section in any of its monsters as far as I can tell, despite some of them having Bonus Action options like the aforementioned Aggressive of an Orc. The book only has Actions, Reactions and Legendary Actions as possibilities.So what official 5E publications, if any, are there with monsters that have a Bonus Actions section in their statblock?</blockquote>

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