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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 5724365" data-attributes="member: 27160">Actually, my ideal would be something with more "parameters", similar to the way combat works.  Succubi could have a "social statblock" that defines, within a set of broad, general rules, how a succubus performs in "social conflict".  "Powers" might do things such as persuasion, dissuasion, confusion or delay (hesitation).  It's an un-ploughed field, as far as good game mechanics go, but I would love to see what sort of crop it could grow.Yes, I am certainly delighted that the basis for monster design is explicit in the DMG, but I like to have the MM as well for just the same reasons you do - convenience!Yeah - I you can sort of say that it gets specific as it is a specific creature's Bluff versus a specific character's Insight, but I would love to see this very significantly expanded upon (and I'm inferring that you would, too?).Quite so - and the same thing for social and other forms of conflict would be absolute heaven.To the point I was trying to make earlier, though, I don't think that the "combat stat block" and the "social stat block" need necessarily to be bound inextricably together.  For some creatures in a scenario you will only want or need one or the other; for others you may need both with the players effectively choosing which conflict to engage in.  Only for long-term NPCs or Villains would you really need to tie two blocks firmly to one another.  I think I see something like the succubus as an outlier where you might want to suggest a specific "social stat block" that covers all succubi; in general, though, I think the combat and social blocks should be more of a "pick and mix" deal, where you combine any two to get a unique individual where you need one (or just use one alone, where the nature of the encounter is pre-ordained).Funnily enough, I was thinking exactly of Lego as an analogy to my preferences <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=":)" />.  The tools and wood I think of more in the way of houseruling as a basic necessity to make the game work; the "published monsters only" I think of as more like playing with ready-made models (Matchbox cars, Dinky toys or whatever).Lego seems the perfect level, to me; easily manipulated building blocks, each complete unto itself, but combinable in a myriad ways to make all sorts of models.</blockquote>

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