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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7637311" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>Personally I find people reading the MM annoying for a few reasons, but the primary one is that it breaks the immersion of the players in the game. Instead of fighting a large green skinned humanoid monster with ropey muscles and rubbery skin they're now fighting a pile of stats.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I've had people go so far as to tell others how many HP the monster has left, what special powers they have, what I need to roll to recharge abilities and so on. It's annoying.</p><p></p><p></p><p>On the other hand, if trolls are common in my campaign (they are reasonably common) then the PCs will know that you need fire/acid to kill them whether or not the players know.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But the other side of it is that I tweak monsters all the time. So yes that orc gets advantage because it's berserking and attacking recklessly, don't ask me why it's getting advantage. I've upped the CR for my calculation if I think it was necessary. I have an extra legendary save? Yep, I've decided that because we have 7 people at the table and legendary saves seem to be balanced for a table of 4. So on and so forth.</p><p></p><p></p><p>On the other hand when I'm playing if I know what a monster is, I may ask what I know about that monster but other than that I'll play dumb. Or, well my PC will play dumb. It's no different than my barbarian PC from the hinterlands not knowing secrets about Waterdeep even though I just read the campaign guide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7637311, member: 6801845"] Personally I find people reading the MM annoying for a few reasons, but the primary one is that it breaks the immersion of the players in the game. Instead of fighting a large green skinned humanoid monster with ropey muscles and rubbery skin they're now fighting a pile of stats. I've had people go so far as to tell others how many HP the monster has left, what special powers they have, what I need to roll to recharge abilities and so on. It's annoying. On the other hand, if trolls are common in my campaign (they are reasonably common) then the PCs will know that you need fire/acid to kill them whether or not the players know. But the other side of it is that I tweak monsters all the time. So yes that orc gets advantage because it's berserking and attacking recklessly, don't ask me why it's getting advantage. I've upped the CR for my calculation if I think it was necessary. I have an extra legendary save? Yep, I've decided that because we have 7 people at the table and legendary saves seem to be balanced for a table of 4. So on and so forth. On the other hand when I'm playing if I know what a monster is, I may ask what I know about that monster but other than that I'll play dumb. Or, well my PC will play dumb. It's no different than my barbarian PC from the hinterlands not knowing secrets about Waterdeep even though I just read the campaign guide. [/QUOTE]
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