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<blockquote data-quote="greywulf" data-source="post: 3286888" data-attributes="member: 4285">Bretbo, thanks for the feeback. Your monsters look just fine to me; keep the stats to a minimum and concentrate on the descriptive text. That works best <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />When it comes to monsters of varying sizes/ages, follow this rule: stat what you need. If you want a dragon the size of a large horse, then that sounds about 5HD to me, a young whelp of a thing out to cause trouble with some farmer's sheep. Twice the size makes it 10HD, and so on. Get a feel for the HD based on what you need for the adventure. You might end up with something at great variance to the SRD but that doesn't matter so long as you're having fun and it works for you. I'd stat that Dragon with good STR and DEX, but average MIND. It's not dumb, not it's none too start either.Something like this maybe:Whelp Dragon, 5HD (40hp), AC17, Bite +9, 1d8+4 or Breath 3d6, DC15 phys+DEX for half.I'll guarantee that's not like any Dragon in the SRD, but it's good enough for a game and an appropriate challenge for a low-level party facing their first Dragon. Until mummy comes along, of course <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Microlite20 is all about making the decisions simple so you can make them without resorting to some big rule book. Ok, it's all about making the decisions simple, and having fun.No, it's all about making the decisions simple, and having fun and keeping the rules as small as possible.Ha! No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="greywulf, post: 3286888, member: 4285"] Bretbo, thanks for the feeback. Your monsters look just fine to me; keep the stats to a minimum and concentrate on the descriptive text. That works best :) When it comes to monsters of varying sizes/ages, follow this rule: [B]stat what you need[/B]. If you want a dragon the size of a large horse, then that sounds about 5HD to me, a young whelp of a thing out to cause trouble with some farmer's sheep. Twice the size makes it 10HD, and so on. Get a feel for the HD based on what you need for the adventure. You might end up with something at great variance to the SRD but that doesn't matter so long as you're having fun and it works for you. I'd stat that Dragon with good STR and DEX, but average MIND. It's not dumb, not it's none too start either. Something like this maybe: Whelp Dragon, 5HD (40hp), AC17, Bite +9, 1d8+4 or Breath 3d6, DC15 phys+DEX for half. I'll guarantee that's not like any Dragon in the SRD, but it's good enough for a game and an appropriate challenge for a low-level party facing their first Dragon. Until mummy comes along, of course :) Microlite20 is all about making the decisions simple so you can make them without resorting to some big rule book. Ok, it's all about making the decisions simple, and having fun. No, it's all about making the decisions simple, and having fun and keeping the rules as small as possible. Ha! No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! [/QUOTE]

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