D&D General Forge of Foes from Mike Shea, Teos Abadia, and Scott F. Gray!
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Honestly, as much as I like the rest of Mike's books, this looks like his most useful one yet. I have to imagine a lot of the high profile DMs like Mercer are likely interested in book for the purposes of actually using it.
I'm planning on cranking up the monster production assembly line, myself.
I'm planning on cranking up the monster production assembly line, myself.
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Alphastream
Adventurer
Ha-ha, thanks for saying that! I have been tinkering with Monster Powers for a long time. I really love using them in my games.
Alphastream
Adventurer
In all seriousness, as one of the three writers, please post here if you have any questions. Thanks for backing and/or sharing the project with friends. It means a lot to us and goes a long way towards how quickly we can make future projects!
dave2008
Legend
Thanks for jumping on to answer questions! I don't really have any as the free preview PDF and all the videos pretty much answer any questions I might have had.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
As a DM, this is a very compelling video.
SlyFlourish
SlyFlourish.com
I wouldn't say useless exactly but probably not needed all the time. Much of it you can likely make up as you need it and that's something we talk about in the book and the preview. Things like speed, senses, languages, and the like you can fall to "whatever makes sense given the story of the monster". That's sort of antithetical to the defined mechanics of 5e but it works fine in play. I'm not sure I'd want a book of published monsters to be that sparse but it can certainly work for a home game!
Useless might be over stated.....but do we really need all 6 stats for many battles? Languages, as you say, is make up as you go to make the game fun (why are there still race languages at this point?). I wouldn't want an entire book of limited blocks, but I'd guess if we had AC and HP and attacks, we'd be covered in 60-70% of the combats. For non-combats, all of that is fluff that doesn't need to be in a block, imo.
This book looks great and useful, btw.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
As we can see from other discussions here, particularly regarding the new spellcaster stat blocks in Monsters of the Multiverse, there are people who are happy to wing this stuff and other people who are definitely not. I do think the Lazy DM way probably mostly aligns with the first group, though.
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Over in another thread ( The Lazy DM's Forge of Foes for 5e: An Interview With Mike Shea, Teos Abadía, and Scott Fitzgerald Gray (Sly Flourish) ) it was implied that the PDF might be released this summer:
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