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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Novem5er" data-source="post: 4976080" data-attributes="member: 57859">Jack99,Thanks for the great thread. I'm at the start of a paragon Eberron campaign and reading through your past adventures has given me some ideas.I also wanted to share my experience using the Monster Builder to modify monsters. I plan for all my adventures and I "fix" all of my monsters using the Monster Builder. I reduce all monster HP by 33% ( just multiply the existing HP by .66 using a calculator and edit it right there in the Builder). I then go to each attack and add 50% damage using the method you described above: take average damage (dice + modifier) and then add half of that as a bonus i.e. 1d8 + 5 becomes 1d8 + 9 and I change it right there in the Builder.I then copy each edited monster as an image, then paste it in a landscape Word document. I can usually get 2 or 3 monsters per page of a Word document, and I just print those out before we play.It's worked great. Combats are quicker and more exciting. It's a little swingy, but nobody's died... yet.The builder is also great for some "on the fly" encounters. My players unexpectedly ambushed a Warforged NPC that I had no stats for. I just pulled up a standard Warforged Soldier in the Monster Builder, changed his level to 11, made him an elite, and rolled init. This won't work with a whole group of on the fly monsters... but given 5 minutes I can create just the encounter I need.I actually no longer look up monsters by level. I look at monsters thematically for what I want in my adventure, and then I edit accordingly with the Builder.I might play third edition again... but never in a million years would I DM it <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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