Black Flag Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault Marilith Preview

[SlyFlourish]

Kobold Press just previewed the Tales of the Valiant Marilith. I think it looks great. Its stats are in-line with the benchmarks Scott Gray, Teos Abadia, and I came up with for Forge of Foes. It's a real powerhouse – both simple to read in their format with some cool tactical stuff going on too. I dig it.

We're going to have a lot of awesome 5e monsters to choose from this year and early into next.

 

[Reynard]

Very nice. I like it. it is clean but interesting, at it has some cool abilities.

 

[bedir than]

Clear identity and unique features for every monster -- it's very odd that this isn't the norm here in year 50, and yet

 

[jmartkdr2]

Pretty cool!

I think I would have let them use the extra reactions for opportunity attacks as well, but maybe that playtested poorly.

 

[Reynard]

Clear identity and unique features for every monster -- it's very odd that this isn't the norm here in year 50, and yet

But look how many hit points they have!!!!

 

[mamba]

Clear identity and unique features for every monster -- it's very odd that this isn't the norm here in year 50, and yet

there are hundreds of monsters, so that is not so easy, unless you whittle them down....

 

[bedir than]

there are hundreds of monsters, so that is not so easy, unless you whittle them down....

Kobold Press will have 100s of monsters in this first release. They have a couple thousand in their other 5e books.

 

[Marc Radle]

I am SO excited for folks to see the Monster Vault (and Player’s Guide)!!!

 

[mamba]

Kobold Press will have 100s of monsters in this first release. They have a couple thousand in their other 5e books.

I know, my point was more that it is not easy to give hundreds of monsters an identity that is unique to them.

I do not even think it is really needed... if we followed that we would have what, two or three dinosaurs? There are books full of dinosaurs... while I agree that most are similar, having not just one of a thing but multiple variants just adds variety to the world

 

[Shardstone]

I dig the lore. A BBEG that is a Marilith Warlord serving a king and conquering in his name would be super sick.