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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8861036" data-attributes="member: 57383">Okay, starting with the Stone Giant Wight.Size, type and alignment look OK.Armor Class is OK.Hit Points are OK. We can always modify them later to make it tougher or weaker.Speed is OK.However, Ability Scores seem underwhelming. If it's a legendary figure shouldn't they be a bit better than an ordinary stone giant / wight?Apart from CON (+6) the Dodking's physical modifiers are the same as an SRD Stone Giant (STR +6, DEX +2, CON +5) and its mental modifiers are identical to a standard Wight (INT +0, WIS +1, CHA +2).I'd consider bumping up at least the Charisma and wouldn't be against a slight tweak upwards of some or many of the other ability scores.It depends what you're aiming for: Is this guy just a jumbo-sized wight or THE GIANT KING OF THE BARROW DEAD?If the latter, I'd expect mental attributes closer to, say, a Vampire than a common or garden Wight.The Saves and Immunities are fine.I note that its Damage Resistance works against silvered nonmagical weapons unlike a standard 5E Wight's "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren’t silvered".I presume that's deliberate rather than an omission and it's OK by me.Skills are a combination of a Wight and a Stone Giant but the numbers seem off. If it has single proficiency in Athletics its +5 proficiency bonus would give it Athletics +11. However a Stone Giant has a +3 proficiency bonus and Athletics +12, suggesting it either has double proficiency (which'd make Athletics +16) or an arbitrary +3 bonus on top of its PB (which'd make Athletics +14).The higher proficiency bonus also means it should have Perception +6 and Stealth +7, which also gives it passive Perception 16 rather than 14.I can go along with the 120 ft. darkvision in Senses despite wights and stone giants only having 60 ft. darkvision. If it's good enough for a drow it's good enough for a dodking.Finally, shouldn't it have a Stone Giant's "Stone Camouflage. The giant has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain" ability?I'll leave quibbling about the Actions for a later post.</blockquote>

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