D&D 5E (2014) Does anyone who got an mm at Gencon want to offer up spoilers to us?

[Tormyr]

Mind Blast is one of the three Int saves in the book. Failure means damage and stunned for a minute, reacting the save each round.

Thaumaturge.

Ow. My head hurts thinking about going up against that.

 

[Scorpio616]

Ow. My head hurts thinking about going up against that.

I'll take the 4d10 damage over not being able to break out of the stun! When my PC's skull explodes, at least there will be no question whether I should make another character or go order take out.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Thanks! And what's their alignment these days?



Imps are actually in the PHB, precisely because they're infernal-pact familiars. Though oddly, they're CR 1/4 there.

No Imps are CR 1 I just checked the PHB.

 

[The Shadow]

No Imps are CR 1 I just checked the PHB.

Sigh. You are, of course, correct.

 

[Quickleaf]

Apologies if this question has been asked before:

Is there a description of what the Titan sub-type means? I've heard that a diverse array of monsters - Empyrean, Kraken, Tarrasque - are tagged as Titans so curious minds want to know

 

[jadrax]

Apologies if this question has been asked before:

Is there a description of what the Titan sub-type means? I've heard that a diverse array of monsters - Empyrean, Kraken, Tarrasque - are tagged as Titans so curious minds want to know

Subtypes are only used by things that refer to them explicitly, normally magic items. So there may well be an Axe of Titan Slaying that does 2d6 damage when it hits creatures with the titan subtype, for example.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

On Slaadi again. Can you tell us what the unique powers of the different types of Slaadi are.

 

[Quickleaf]

Subtypes are only used by things that refer to them explicitly, normally magic items. So there may well be an Axe of Titan Slaying that does 2d6 damage when it hits creatures with the titan subtype, for example.

To be clear, there is no description of sub-types nor any story associated with having the "Titan" subtype in the Monster Manual?

 

[Blackwarder]

On Slaadi again. Can you tell us what the unique powers of the different types of Slaadi are.

Red Slaad - hit with a claw and infect with a salad egg, save to negate.
Blue Slaad - hit with a claws and it will infect you with a disease called chaos phage, turning the target into a Slaad eventually.
Green Slaad - shapechanger to small and medium size creature, but statistics remain the same. Spellcasters with some spells and can hurl flame as an attack.
Gray Slaad - a little bit tougher version of the green Slaad, exchange hurl flame for a magical great sword.
Death Sladd - better spell casting than Gray Slaad.

Warder

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Red Slaad - hit with a claw and infect with a salad egg, save to negate.
Blue Slaad - hit with a claws and it will infect you with a disease called chaos phage, turning the target into a Slaad eventually.
Green Slaad - shapechanger to small and medium size creature, but statistics remain the same. Spellcasters with some spells and can hurl flame as an attack.
Gray Slaad - a little bit tougher version of the green Slaad, exchange hurl flame for a magical great sword.
Death Sladd - better spell casting than Gray Slaad.

Warder

Aww Red Slaad's lost their stunning croak.