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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 6815308" data-attributes="member: 9327">They deliberately delayed release until after the MM was released so they could fine-tune balance. The wonderful thing about the book is that it's inconsistency in attacks and powers and adds a refreshing style change from the core rules. Last session, I threw a Red Jester at my party. His primary attack is a Mace of Mirthfulness (or something alliterative like that): on contact make a will save or sing and dance for a turn (David Bowie had just died, so everyone had to do "Dance Magic Dance"). His secondary attack was more interesting: a bonus action to chuck a card from a Deck of Many Things at a PC. As luck would have it, he only dealt good cards. Lucky party. The Deck drops from his dead body as a plain deck of playing cards.Was it balanced for a CR5 encounter? No. It was challenging for a CR5 encounter, but it was in no way balanced, except by the magic of bounded accuracy. I love it.There are some very interesting carnivorous plants in there I'd like to try, also.</blockquote>