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<blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 9579907" data-attributes="member: 6813585">I've never made monsters from scratch.I have however customized statblocks to suit my needs. It's usually simple stuff like changing weapons/armor to match the miniature I'm using, but sometimes it will be adding a species features to a guard's stats, or whatever.I might be alone in this, but I write out the stats for monsters I'm planning to use in my notes when I prep a session. There's a few reasons for this: it means I can customize them as mentioned above, it also just helps me remember their abilities (even then I'll still forget at least one thing per fight), also it's easier than flipping pages if I'm using monsters from different books or even just different sections of the same manual.I'll have to wait till I get the MM to see how it plays, but it sounds like it should suit me OK with how they've left out the monster creation rules for something more in line with the 'Rulings not Rules' philosophy of 5E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Older Beholder, post: 9579907, member: 6813585"] I've never made monsters from scratch. I have however customized statblocks to suit my needs. It's usually simple stuff like changing weapons/armor to match the miniature I'm using, but sometimes it will be adding a species features to a guard's stats, or whatever. I might be alone in this, but I write out the stats for monsters I'm planning to use in my notes when I prep a session. There's a few reasons for this: it means I can customize them as mentioned above, it also just helps me remember their abilities (even then I'll still forget at least one thing per fight), also it's easier than flipping pages if I'm using monsters from different books or even just different sections of the same manual. I'll have to wait till I get the MM to see how it plays, but it sounds like it should suit me OK with how they've left out the monster creation rules for something more in line with the 'Rulings not Rules' philosophy of 5E. [/QUOTE]

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