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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 3199168" data-attributes="member: 326">Hi Dante mate! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think your Druatha post was very interesting (although its a bit big for me to go through and make notes upon). I'll get back to it a bit later today and go through it more closely. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think the Lich King/Queen post is you falling back on your old habits of simply copying out stuff from the Bestiary. Remember, before you even think about writing up the stats you should have a handful of original ideas for your monster. Otherwise you simply detract from the uniqueness of the monster you are copying from.In fact I would just forget about stats until you have people interested in seeing one of your ideas fleshed out. Just post a paragraph about the monster. Name; Challenge Rating Target; Hit Dice; Type; Idea #1; Idea #2; Idea #3 etc. Then ask people for feedback. Then when you get some comments, you can then write up the stats.Remember there is no point simply having stats for Monster B that are almost identical to Monster A. Originality and poignancy are the keys to good monster design. Always ask the question "what is original about this monster" or "what is poignant about that ability".The Nightwyrm idea is quite a good base.However, there seem to be a number of anomalies. Why is it Aquatic? Also it has Strength 60 but its only Huge size (it should have strength 30 something). When a monster only has a single attack you add 1.5 times its str bonus to damage. Also the wyrm might have a large head so it might still have 4d6 base damage without those virtual size categories.Str 34 = 4d6+18 (bite) Then maybe give it Improved Natural Attack for 4d8 base damage assuming it has oversized jaws.But I still think that the Nightwyrm needs some original ideas to make it worthwhile. Although that will be tricky considering its just an animal.</blockquote>

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