Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I'm sorry, I got caught up. I'll refrain from continuing this in the thread.
D&D 5E Let’s Read Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse.
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GMforPowergamers
Legend
again I know this is like cross posting but someone in my other thread asked if I would let a PC learn Medusa's gaze attack... but brute is a better example.
in theory this would be a HUGE DPR boost to a melee fighter, and I would think real hard about giving it as aboon. but I also wouldn't outright just say no...
maybe pack tactics is just as good an example
You honestly had me at Fey Ninja. Gimme gimme gimme!
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I really don't understand the appeal of the fey. Can someone explain to me what they like about the concept?
GMforPowergamers
Legend
not a fan of the all goblins part (but not hateing it) I will say the idea of races of being made of living magic that are bound by there own power is a major fantasy go to.
my fey have to keep there word, as if every sentence was being back by a Geas. but they are experts in saying one thing but letting you infer another to get around it. "You said he was dead" "No i said he was gone... you assumed I meant dead"
ironcily since I like LE hobgoblins maybe I can see them as Fey desendents...
Remathilis
Legend
It's an easy way to give creatures magical and otherworldly traits without being overly otherworldly like fiends, aberrations or elementals. They can be nice, malicious, tricky or peaceful, often having a general emotional or personality trait but able to also show complex traits as needed. (A redcap is violent in general, but can deviate in how much so as needed). In short, fey are otherworldly enough to be generalized but not alien enough to be unrecognizable.
In essence they are doing allot of the heavy lifting that monoculture humanoids used to do before monoculture humanoids became a no-no. (Monstrous humanoid getting the remaining lion's share).
MonsterEnvy
Legend
Book is now available on its own.
Well, I'm a psychologist, so I enjoy erratic, irrational, self-absorbed, selfish, drama-obsessed, emotionally labile creatures that I am NOT expected to help.
Leatherhead
Possibly a Idiot.
Well today is the day that everyone can get the book. I wonder if this means the thread will cool down or blow up more. At any rate today's entry is going to be small, thanks to the simple nature of the creature.
Howlers are “hounds” from the lower plains. While they are typically found in wild packs in Pandemonium, they are frequently trained by other fiends into warbeasts.
Hunting in packs, they will use their Mind-Breaking Howl to hobble their prey, and then pounce upon them. Using Pack Tactics to generate advantage for their Rending Bite, which ignores any resistance that an afraid target might otherwise have.
At CR 8, they just barely avoid the common “slow-groundbound-brute” problem thanks to their Howl, which has an AoE movement speed reduction (and also an incapacitation effect). After all, you really only need to trap one party member in order to make the pack a problem for the whole party. Still, they work better as a support unit for other fiends. They can even use their large size to function as a mount for slower creatures.
The Howler only has a bit of language cleanup for its changes in this book.
Howler (VGtM)
Howlers are “hounds” from the lower plains. While they are typically found in wild packs in Pandemonium, they are frequently trained by other fiends into warbeasts.
Hunting in packs, they will use their Mind-Breaking Howl to hobble their prey, and then pounce upon them. Using Pack Tactics to generate advantage for their Rending Bite, which ignores any resistance that an afraid target might otherwise have.
At CR 8, they just barely avoid the common “slow-groundbound-brute” problem thanks to their Howl, which has an AoE movement speed reduction (and also an incapacitation effect). After all, you really only need to trap one party member in order to make the pack a problem for the whole party. Still, they work better as a support unit for other fiends. They can even use their large size to function as a mount for slower creatures.
The Howler only has a bit of language cleanup for its changes in this book.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Want some help to get through them all, or did you want to make sure you got to write an entry for every creature?
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