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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7974533" data-attributes="member: 6775031">That implies the game was inherently balanced to begin with, which is not something an inexperienced DM should rely on.Personally, I'm not a fan of re-skinning, because it's bad practice. My job as DM is to determine accurate stats, which best reflect the thing I'm trying to represent. The monsters in the book are useful in teaching us how the mechanics of the game are used to express various realities within the game world, but once we're fluent in that language, re-skinning something into something else is very likely to create errors in representation. If I'm going to create a new thing, be it item or spell or monster, there's no merit to using the stats of an existing thing. The only way those stats would be an accurate reflection of this new thing is if it was identical to the old thing; and if that was the case, then there's no benefit to adding it to the game.</blockquote>