Level Up (A5E) Monster preview thread!

[Faolyn]

It’s like a raincoat. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

True. It's not a bad choice or anything.

 

[Zaukrie]

It’s like a raincoat. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

I LOVE the inclusion of names. A real time saver.

 

[Kozos]

@Morrus hey can you confirm that the death knight is indeed not supposed to get multiattack and can attack only once per round (+1 as a bonus action) thanks.

 

[Morrus]

@Morrus hey can you confirm that the death knight is indeed not supposed to get multiattack and can attack only once per round (+1 as a bonus action) thanks.

I think that’s a question for @duneguy!

 

[duneguy]

Yes, the dread knight should get a 2-attack multiattack (+1 as a bonus action)! Nice catch. It may not matter much because the dread knight will probably spend its first 3 turns using a special 1/day move and attacking with its sword as a bonus action, but if the fight drags out to round 4, it is much better off with a third attack.

The current, updated version of Dread Knight has multiattack and also has some other minor changes: for instance, instead of Queen Cir, the variant is named Dread Knight Champion, with Queen Cir and her bio listed as an example, prototypical champion. That's to emphasize that the DM/Narrator is quite likely to have their own campaign world ideas. We'd like to give you a menu and not tell you what to order.

As for Dread Pirate: I of course have one statted up, but it didn't quite make it into the overstuffed NPC section (90 NPC stat block and variants). If Morrus lets me do a MoMe 2, it's in.

 

[Kozos]

Thanks @Morrus and @duneguy

 

[Morrus]

E is for Ettin!

 

[tetrasodium]

oooooo.... "Demon lord of Madness"

 

[Faolyn]

I feel sorry for the head on the right. It's probably always getting hair in its mouth.

(I think that axe whirl should be 1/rest or 1 (recharge 6).)

 

[Timespike]

I love the more neutral takes on monsters in A5e. This version could be a fun NPC with no moral qualms about what it might do when the PCs walk away if the heads were relatively good-natured, or it could be a serious threat if one or both heads were malicious.