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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radmod" data-source="post: 5284365" data-attributes="member: 93008">I feel your pain. When I first started DMing, there was only MM1 (then later FF) which everybody knew. So I would just use monsters as 'templates'. In addition, what can be fun (for the DM) is giving them a monster that they are sure works one way, but then actually works another. Remember, though, if someone successfully makes a Knowledge check or if the info is common knowledge you should tell, or hint, that the monster is not what they thought it was."It's a red dragon, I cast Resist Energy Fire.""It swoops down and acid spews from its mouth."Re: Silent PotI actually just ran across a similar monster, possibly in Fiend Folio or Monster Manual 2. I even think it was even called a spell eater.If you wanted to have it eat all spells in the vicinity, not just spells aimed at it, and didn't want to have the place silenced, then you could always rule that a command word or verbal part of a spell is treated as 'magic' speech which alerts the Silent Pot that it's suppertime!Re: terrainsOften squares that have two types of terrains in them are treated as half of each. An example is from DMG p. 88, Marsh, Bogs:"Deep bog squares are usually clustered together and surrounded by an irregular ring of shallow bog squares."A shallow bog has slightly different features from a deep bog. So you might want to treat it as half and half.</blockquote>