The Returned have managed to bust out of the afterlife; the problem is, you can’t do that and take your personality or identity with you.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
Mythic Odysseys of Theros contains stat blocks for two giants, which are both lumped together under the heading “giants”: the doomwake giant and the hundred-handed one. Doomwake giants are Nyxborn creatures conjured into existence by people’s anxieties: If enough people come to believe that their annihilation is nigh, a doomwake giant shows up to make […] The post Theran Giant Tactics appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
The typhon, an unambiguous melee brute, isn't mindless, but it's not a bright bulb, either: Its Intelligence is on par with a caveman's.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
The hydra isn’t particularly complicated. A straightforward brute, it’s extremely stupid and has only one method of attack: one bite for each of its heads.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
The Monster Manual’s section on dragons is one of the longest in the book, but dragons are easy to work with, because they all follow the same pattern.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
Monster combat tactics for Dungeons & Dragons 5E| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
The ironscale hydra is fundamentally no different from an ordinary hydra, so let’s skip forward to Polukranos, the World-Eater.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
I found myself thinking about encounter building, and it occurred to me that a monster’s type is an excellent proxy for its strategic goals.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing and MOAR! Monsters Know What They’re Doing, I reverse-engineered hundreds of fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons monsters to help DMs prepare battle plans for combat encounters. Now, in Making Enemies—coming Oct. 7 from Saga Press—I explore everything that goes into creating monsters from the ground up. The post Making Enemies, Available for Preorder appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
When they’re not shooting shampoo commercials, fleecemane lions guard places where the power of Nyx seeps into the material world of Theros.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
Those of you who are still reading this blog, thank you for sticking around. I’ve been AWOL too long again, and you’re overdue for an update.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
There’s something missing in this creature's stat block, and I’m wondering whether it got edited out by accident.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
The darkweaver is the first monster I’ve seen in a long, long time that I’m excited to try out, just reading the stat block.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
Eaters of knowledge are mighty brutes that crack open victims’ brains like walnuts and scoop out what’s inside.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
Previous githzerai have been variations on a monk-ish shock attacker theme. Morte’s Planar Parade gives us three new ones to look at.| The Monsters Know What They’re Doing