Dungeons of Dread Prerelease this past weekend?

[TerraDave]

Halfling Paladin
Small Natural Humanoid
...Melee: Impetuous Challenge; Reaction, whenever adjacent enemy moves away; +10 vs

Does this replace the challenge mechanic we saw in the pregens?

 

[Kwalish Kid]

That's incorrect. It's because at 2nd level your +1/2 per level skill bonus finally shows up. For some insane reason the monster stat blocks show the skill bonus next to the ability instead of the actual ability modifier. Search around here and you'll find it.

Confused? So was I when I first heard about this silliness.

I was under the impression that for anything not covered by a skill, feat, or power, one defaulted to ability score vs. appropriate target, including the level bonus. This would make the inclusion of the bonus with the ability scores appropriate, because bare ability score is never used.

 

[Lurker59]

You still need the base modifier to determine additional damage and such, but for the most part the modified ability bonus is sufficient. By the way is there an official term for the base and modified modifier? I've been using ability bonus and ability modifier respectively but it seems like everyone else uses them in the opposite manner. Raw and adjusted modifier maybe?

 

[M.L. Martin]

Vampire Vizier
Melee: Blood Drain; Requires cbt adv; +13 vs Fort, living humanoid only; 2d12+2 AND enervated (save ends) AND this creature gains 25 hp. Recharge 5

I'm surprised no one else noticed this--it appears to be definitive evidence that the traditional D&D vampire of thirty years' standing--the level-eating slap-fighter--has been staked, beheaded, and burned.

Oh joyful day!

 

[NaturalZero]

Wow, the warforged is a "natural humanoid"? Humanoid i get, but natural? The other constructs appear to be natural as well...hmm

 

[Lurker59]

The "natural" type means that a creature is originally from the natural world ie Prime Material Plane. Creatures originally from a different plane are as follows:
Fey= Feywild
Shadow= Shadowfell
The Far Realm= Aberrant
Elemental Chaos= Elemental
The Astral Sea= Immortal ?

This refers to the creatures point of origin, not present location. Thus beholders are aberrants and eladrin are fey but both (often) live in the natural world.

 

[NaturalZero]

Ah, that makes sense. So its "origin" then "body type" then (subtype)? I was thinking "natural" as in occuring in nature as opposed to being aberrant or artificial.

 

[OchreJelly]

I'm surprised no one else noticed this--it appears to be definitive evidence that the traditional D&D vampire of thirty years' standing--the level-eating slap-fighter--has been staked, beheaded, and burned.

Oh joyful day!

Yup it's good to see more archetypical vampires. The slam drains always bugged me. I'm not sure if level drain has been completely chained to "enervated" keyword, or if all the old level-drainers got something unique. I think I read that one type could eat up your healing surges (can't recall offhand).

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

Looks like some of the stats are already in the download Monsters and More. I can type up the stats for some of those not in there, unless its been done somewhere else already

What is the link for Monsters and More?

Cheers~

 

[Verys Arkon]

What is the link for Monsters and More?

Cheers~

The thread is here.

Anyone know if it is going to be updated with these monsters? Thanks for transcribing them all!