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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8135011" data-attributes="member: 6775477">The 5E design assumes that the PCs hit regularly for moderate damage and the monsters hit irregularly for significant damage. Damage on a Miss was a hotly debated topic during the playtest, and in the end the surveys told WotC is was overall disliked. Legendary Monsters and weird things are mostly the ones printed that have "interesting" things they can do; LM because they're uber-BBEG, and weird things to keep players off guard.There is nothing that prevents you from creating monsters that do these things, but they alter the flow of the game. If you have an Acid Elemental that splashes a target for 2d6 damage even if it misses, this is going to increase the overall amount of damage it will do, thus increasing its CR. Sometimes you have be be creative on why damage is still dealt after a "miss," which was the biggest argument (basically defining if HP=Meat), which will require more work in the design.Oh, as others have noted, never, EVER, use a non-legendary monster by itself. I've had a level 2 party take down a CR 5 Troll with utter ease before (did ~15 damage before dying early in the second round). XGtE does a decent job of setting up solo battles, so you should look into that if you don't have a usable LM. If you don't want to use a full LM, you should get "(not so) Legendary Monsters" from the DM Guild, which offers up a way to template existing creatures into Legendary Monsters.</blockquote>

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