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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8218056" data-attributes="member: 93670">Legendary resistance says it imposes the rattled condition till the end of it's next turn making it an interesting tradeoff for nullifying a caster's spell after it fails the save.  What does the rattled condition do though?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the higher passive perception is nice & fitting for a dragon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Having the proficiency bonus listed is going to be a godsend for gm's</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Woodland stalker having both a stealth bump & the ability to speak through nature is awesome flavor & going to make for fun encounters <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f608.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":devilish:" title="Devil    :devilish:"  data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":devilish:" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">being able to sub a spit poison for a bite will make the breath feel like a bankable strategy over the o5e 5-6 recharge eyepopping "did I read that right?" 22d6will make it feel like the dragon has more options than a rockemsockemrobots style slugfest so can't wait to see this kinda thing more often.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The tail's kockback will be fun for disrupting plans & forcing movement.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The return of DoTs in the poison spit is great  & having both the at will spit as well as the 5-6 "oh god no" poison breath is a nice mix with fun nail biting suspense for what that description will do with the DoT making it not a clear choice for better or worse.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">beguiling gaze is pretty cool but honeyed words will be a fun & completely terrifying "oh god lets not do that again" memory with the added bonus of making them a great frenemy or similar  so I can't wait to see what other kinds of things like this roll out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The combo of reaction tail attack with knockback+bloodied blood toxicity is a great way to make them prickly to be close to f your persistent enough to knock it from the sky & suicidal enough to get close.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Roar:  is frightened still going to be run away or something more interesting?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The combat blurb is a nice little reminder.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Elder green dragon is a horrific variant, o5e really underutilizes the variants  & they tend to feel pretty much the same as the original so it's going to be interesting what kind of variants show up on more common/popcorny monsters like ghouls/wraith/etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The page 26 left column... ecology? doesn't have a heading but is the kind of interesting blurb that made reasing the old mm books interesting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The knowledge check legends & lore is great & will be useful for helping newer GMs get comfortable making things up when players ask to make knowledge checks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Signs & behavior are both awesome feeling like there is depth to the creature as well as having various interesting outcomes other than "roll initiative"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Having a range of example encounters is pretty neat & nicely saves some effort for a busy gm grasping for filler</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">sample treasures is great  for feeling like the treasure is related to the creature & has the added benefit of being a nice randomish selection without needing to stop for a few minutes to find the random treasure table charts pick an appropriate chart & start rolling</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As a GM so bad with names that some of my players suggest them when asking at times the names block is going to be useful on the fly </li> </ul></blockquote>

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