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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7701499">I gave up using the MM almost a year ago.&nbsp; It's a nice window piece at this point but the power-levels are absolutely idiotic when building an encounter at an y level and it just gets worse once you're past level 5.&nbsp; Almost every monster I throw at the party, from a level 1 bandit to a level 20 ancient dragon monk/sorcerer is redesigned from the ground up using the following metrics:HP determines how long I want the fight to take against that mob.AC determines how often I want my players to hit the mob.DPR determines how high I want the stakes to be.Everything else is fluff.&nbsp; Doesn't matter if its a dragon or a kraken or Bob from Accounting.&nbsp; And frankly, I've figured out one thing that every monster I design has in common: the monster design goals for 5E are completely bumpkis.&nbsp; Everything hits like a kitten, takes hits like a pothead and generally eats it in 5 rounds or less while providing no real threat to the party unless a whole friggen flight of dragons descends upon them backed up by a veritable army of kobolds, in which case I simply win by statistical chance (I'll crit more often than you will, aka: I win because math).&nbsp; Maybe parties of bumbling idiots are still threatened by whatever WOTC had in mind, but I should hope that their design goals for 5E were not &quot;Lets market this game to idiots!&quot;&nbsp; Because really, marketing to noobs is fine, but you expect noobs to get better, idiots don't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 7701499"] I gave up using the MM almost a year ago. It's a nice window piece at this point but the power-levels are absolutely idiotic when building an encounter at [I]an y[/I] level and it just gets worse once you're past level 5. Almost every monster I throw at the party, from a level 1 bandit to a level 20 ancient dragon monk/sorcerer is redesigned from the ground up using the following metrics: HP determines how long I want the fight to take against [I]that [/I]mob. AC determines how often I want my players to hit the mob. DPR determines how high I want the stakes to be. Everything else is fluff. Doesn't matter if its a dragon or a kraken or Bob from Accounting. And frankly, I've figured out one thing that every monster I design has in common: the monster design goals for 5E are completely bumpkis. Everything hits like a kitten, takes hits like a pothead and generally eats it in 5 rounds or less while providing no real threat to the party unless a whole friggen flight of dragons descends upon them backed up by a veritable army of kobolds, in which case I simply win by statistical chance (I'll crit more often than you will, aka: I win because math). Maybe parties of bumbling idiots are still threatened by [I]whatever[/I] WOTC had in mind, but I should hope that their design goals for 5E were not "Lets market this game to idiots!" Because really, marketing to noobs is fine, but you expect noobs to get better, idiots don't. [/QUOTE]

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