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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 7975286" data-attributes="member: 59816">For what it's worth, when making up a monster, I ALWAYS start out with an existing monster and adjust it (I usually use D&DBeyond's homebrew monster, and I can pick from all the monsters that exist for the game as my template. I just guess who'll be closest, and go from there. Heck, I often open two or three other monsters and steal appropriate abilities from them. This is because it's just plain easier than building them from the ground-up. Besides, most monsters in 5e are just a bag of HP with a CR-appropriate level of damage it can deal, and some appropriate skills and/or resistances. There aren't very many with more than one particularly evocative special abilities. (I don't mean that as a dig at the edition. I like it fine.)</blockquote>