D&D 5E The Flumpf Is Back

[the Jester]

Actually it's 10. "Refer to the 'playable races' chapter in the Player's Handbook."

I was just re-reading "Box of Flumph", a 3e adventure in Dungeon Magazine, and I noticed that it has a level adjustment listed!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The first one my PCs encounter will say "I was once an adventurer like you...".

... until I took an arrow in the knee.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I agree. I definitely get the sense that they're bringing back:

1. Monsters don't have to be things you fight
   

So why do you need stats for something you'll never fight?

 

[GMforPowergamers]

So why do you need stats for something you'll never fight?

Yes becuse the most expensive set of books need fille

 

[Umbran]

So why do you need stats for something you'll never fight?

Because mechanical interactions are not limited to combat.

 

[DMZ2112]

One of the attitudes I've hated in the more recent products of the game was that every "monster" had to be deadly serious, something to fight at a certain level for 5 rounds and somehow had to make sense. This killed off creativity and many fun things about the game. Having the Flumph back is a sign that it won't be completely like that recent trend anymore.

Well, just so long as a few pages before the flumph, under 'displacer beast,' we get the LOLcat from Wrecan's Queen of the Interwebz Pits (PDF).

I will have equal opportunity stupid!

 

[Li Shenron]

I hate flumpfs, but if I was able to enjoy 3e despite the tojanida being in the MM, I'll be able to enjoy 5e despite the flumpfs being in the MM as well.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Yes becuse the most expensive set of books need fille

Because mechanical interactions are not limited to combat.

Twas a joke, and there is no reason that you would never fight a LG disk of jetting air. Evil or neutral parties. Dominated Flumph - OH THE HORROR!

 

[Alphastream]

Should it be helpful, I'll share an article I wrote for The Roving Band of Misfits on the topic of the Flumph.

Oh, and a free 4E adventure with several horrors in it (spoiler alert: including Flumphs). Last Stand at Camp Starfall is available on the Going Last Podcast site.

I can't wait for the player race rules. Surely, that's in the PHB. ;-)

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Twas a joke, and there is no reason that you would never fight a LG disk of jetting air. Evil or neutral parties. Dominated Flumph - OH THE HORROR!

Yes a LG monster has a spot... Not so much a flumph