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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5843348" data-attributes="member: 7006">If the MM ends up having several variations of each monster like the 4E MMs did... then there's no reason *not* to do something like this.&nbsp; Heck, I'd go even further with what you have here by not only making three medusa versions of SSSoD, SSoD, &amp; SoD... but also make them Standard, Elite, and Solo.&nbsp; That way the DM reading the book really knows what they are getting into.&nbsp; You can throw several Standard &quot;medusa-kin&quot; at a party and be fairly confident in the party's work to counter the effects as they occur... or you go for broke by putting them up against a single Solo &quot;Greater Medusa&quot; that has the true SoD mechanic.The biggest thing though is that I think any monsters with true SoD need to be Solos.&nbsp; The mechanic is too important/cool/deadly/story-driven to have it be on monsters that are meant to be found as a pack encounter for the party.&nbsp; That just takes the 'oomph' out of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5843348, member: 7006"] If the MM ends up having several variations of each monster like the 4E MMs did... then there's no reason *not* to do something like this. Heck, I'd go even further with what you have here by not only making three medusa versions of SSSoD, SSoD, & SoD... but also make them Standard, Elite, and Solo. That way the DM reading the book [I]really[/I] knows what they are getting into. You can throw several Standard "medusa-kin" at a party and be fairly confident in the party's work to counter the effects as they occur... or you go for broke by putting them up against a single Solo "Greater Medusa" that has the true SoD mechanic. The biggest thing though is that I think any monsters with true SoD [I]need[/I] to be Solos. The mechanic is too important/cool/deadly/story-driven to have it be on monsters that are meant to be found as a pack encounter for the party. That just takes the 'oomph' out of them. [/QUOTE]

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