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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Berk" data-source="post: 526841" data-attributes="member: 5992">If this is directed towards me I just wanna let ya know that I started this thread more as a rant on how poorly put together most monsters are in the MM. Specially for their god awful CR's, skills and feat selections. I personally almost always roll up stats for every monster that happens to be a planned encounter. If it's a random encounter the party will meet the atypical monster, but sometimes with some changes done to them. Cuz it is every DM's creator given right to change stats on monsters and what not as they see fit. And for dcollins; Bottom left of page 11 of the DMG, core rulebook II, under Altering The Way Things Work. Every rule in the Player's Handbook was written for a reason. That doesn't mean you can't change them for your own game. Same book page 21 under Modifying Races. Sometimes you may wish to modify one of the common races. Further down under the same topic it says, "It is perfectly acceptable for you to say, "In my world.....".Same book look at page 100 and read under Tailored or Status Quo under the Encounters heading. There are a ton of passages that explain in just the DMG itself that the DM can change whatever they like to suit their own needs. Even if you call it metagaming. With your point of view then whenever a DM rolls up an encounter for the party and that encounter has a 5th level mage in it and the dm picks the spells and feats and all as he see's fit then they are metagaming.Also with your point of view all NPC's have to be as they appear in the DMG. Can't roll up any NPC's, cuz we can't change them from how they appear in the DMG.</blockquote>

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