Recent content by Gorck

I know you didn't ask me, but my answer would be: on the one hand, I find Sorcerers to be most closely related to Psions because both of their powers are internal (something within them that they are born with). As opposed to Wizards whose power comes from studying books, or Warlocks who make a...

I especially appreciate how they list sample encounters. Simple and small enough not to take up too much space. Edit: Oops, that’s technically not the stat block; just the monster’s page in the manual.

I also blame the "Similar Threads" at the bottom of each page.

And ENWorld now categorizes this thread as Undead.

Typo, or intentional?

“Do you see what I see?…” Which is precisely why I think the most quintessential D&D mascot is a dungeon inside the belly of an enormous sleeping dragon. Edit: I guess that would be the mascot of “Dungeons in Dragons”

Heck, 1d6 averages 3.5 damage and a Commoner only has 4 HP.

I believe you mean “crebadility”

I was just flipping through the DMG for the first time in forever, and I noticed that Legendary Actions are listed in the Monster Features table on pages 280-281, and it describes how to adjust the effective CR when adding them. Who knew? But that still leaves out Lair Actions.

One thing I’d love to see in this chapter is a list of potential Legendary/Lair actions, and how adding them to monsters affects the final CR.

I voted yes, but with a caveat: as long as the roles are merely suggestions, not mandatory. I would love to see the stat blocks in the 2025 Monster Manual contain things like roles, typical terrain, and groups (solo, small pack, large mob, etc.) to help unseasoned DMs like me plan encounters...

You know what I like about gnomes? They like to dig. And every once in a while they dig up a thread that's been buried for a couple years.

So, in that case, they'd have to be level 18 (18 x 1.5 = 27). But that formula doesn't take into account the number of party members. 2 single level 18 characters would get slaughtered by the Great Wyrm, while 8 level 18 characters would mop the floor with it (even though both groups would...

If a Chromatic Great Wyrm is CR 27, then using @SlyFlourish lazy DM deadly encounter guideline, 4 level 14 characters would have 56 total levels, half of which would be 28. So that would make a CR 27 less than deadly (unless they were completely spent at the end of an adventuring day).

The fundamental flaw in this hypothesis is that people tend to listen to music all throughout their lives; whether intentionally (playing records, cassette tapes, CDs, streaming files) or subconsciously (background music in stores/restaurants/movies/TV shows/TV commercials). Whereas people who...