D&D 5E The Statistics of Stick Bugs

An essential addition to your menagerie; sugar glider included.

Today on EN5ider we have an excellent addition to your bestiary! With the abundance of variety among the beasts of nature there should be an abundance of statblocks for the particularly curious, quizzical, and strange animals—and here it is! This article covers 18 different CR 0 critters: armadillo, axolotl, dragonfly, dwarf seal, giant hornet, hooded vulture, hummingbird, koala, marmoset, mole, moth, otter, platypus, quokka, skunk, stick bug, sugar glider, and turtle. Don't GM in the wilderness without it! Diligently designed by Andrew Engelbrite, illustrated by Júlio Rocha.

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Mike Myler

Mike Myler

Vincent55

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Vincent55

Adventurer
For me it's having some worthy candidates for a new bags of tricks, although I think this is also an amazing entry for the druids out there.
honestly, it is just a cosmetic thing they are 0 levels and really the stats and anything else doesn't matter to have anyway, so I find it a waste of time to stat out something that will poof gone in a second, from a DM standpoint. In things like this, I just tell players they have something and don't stress the small stuff. I for the life of me don't understand why people need the stats for everything, write some numbers and the idea you want and go with it, it's not going to break the game, unlike some feats and powers and abilities, they seem to just want to wing it with.
 

Vincent55

Adventurer
or just use something stated already, i for one would just have a stat for a small bug that could be used for all bugs, adding other things on the fly if need be. But hay i guess if you need to make some money then stating a bunch of stuff is easy money then.
 

Mike Myler

Have you been to LevelUp5E.com yet?
or just use something stated already, i for one would just have a stat for a small bug that could be used for all bugs, adding other things on the fly if need be. But hay i guess if you need to make some money then stating a bunch of stuff is easy money then.
Weird circle back but I appreciate it! ♥

We have your small universal bug stats, and you can use the statistics of other critters in here in the same manner as you've described to cover an enormous array of beasts.
 

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