Comments on: I love monsters. I just don’t care about their stats.

By: Yax

Yax — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:04:23 +0000

That skin-changing trick while keeping well-known stats is brilliant. I will be using it for sure. Probably often too.

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:40:11 +0000

I did something in reverse – using the stats from the monster manual, I dressed them up as entirely different monsters. A group of players walking into a summoning chamber find four demons flickering in and out of existence, all in various shapes and sizes. They have a bit of a rumble and everyone enjoys themselves.

Damned if I’m going to look up and keep track of several different kinds of demon – those players fought a group of four orcs, pulled straight from MM1. But it was a far more memorable encounter.

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By: Yax

Yax — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:46:35 +0000

I hadn’t thought about it like that but it is true that the designers create *generic* monsters. It makes so much sense to take these suggested monsters and tweak them.