mamba
Legend
no there are not, their DMG is entirely optional
Black Flag Sell Me on Tales of the Valiant
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mamba
Legend
DM advice, what is not in it is the magic items
How different are the monster stat blocks? I love KP's 5E monster manuals and have considered picking up their new one on that basis. But I'm not going to switch to TOTV for regular play, so I want to know how much conversion it takes to plug a TOTV monster into a 5E (2014) game.
So no subsystems or DM facing rules? Monster and trap creation?
mamba
Legend
nothing that is not optional, of course it contains DM facing stuff and optional rule variants, it is a DMG
Huh. To each their own.
I have a policy of never joining a game as a player if the GM won't read the GM Guide. I don't care how long they have been GMing: everyone can still learn new things, particularly new things related to new games. I have bene doing this for 30 years and I still read the GM guide for any game I am going to run, whether it is a variant of D&D or totally different game.
Shardstone
Hero
There is no difficulty, it is basically a monster for the same game.
mamba
Legend
it is a 5e variant, if your DM knows how to DM that, then they should be fine with ToV too
This is the attitude that I believe leads to bad, or at least boring, games: GMs assuming that they are so experienced they have nothing to learn.
But also, looking at the table of contents for the ToV GMG there's some stuff in there I certainly would want guidance on.
RichGreen
Adventurer
I use ToV monsters from the Monster Vault in my mostly 2014 Tomb of Annihilation game without any problems. Monsters are tougher and tend to have additional flavourful bonus actions or reactions.
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