D&D General The Resurrection of Mike Mearls Games.

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

That's around. There's a monster in Spelljammer that has a brain extraction attack, if it takes a PC to 0 hp with it, that PC dies and their brain gets extracted. No save. Party got unlucky and I landed it on the Rogue. While running Light Of Xaryxis.

There others to IIRC, but it is rare. Probably best for most people/groups to play with it being rare. Of course we play death at 0 period, so no big deal for us!

 

[EthanSental]

Glad Mike chimed in as the monster design chat in here follows with his patreon voting as people seem interested in monster design. Fun stuff ahead!

 

[Zaukrie]

Monster posts incoming. Now we're cooking with GAS!

It's too bad WotC wouldn't do something like this. 100x better in terms of CR/level.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

@mearls I love your Troll. I will buy that monster book, hands down.

 

[Zaukrie]

@mearls I love your Troll. I will buy that monster book, hands down.

I mean, I'm copying and pasting right now....might use this tomorrow.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Mr. Mearls, I think the eventual success of your 5e variant will depend entirely on how you write your stealth rules!

It seems to be the hardest thing to do in a gamebook!

 

[dave2008]

Interesting, he is moving to monsters by level which I have been working on myself as well: 5e Monster Stats by Level (not CR) I will have to take a closer look at what he's done.

 

[Vael]

It's interesting comparing this to the new statblocks that were previewed. I do love simple level based rules and I like simple ways to give monsters a range of levels, in principle I'm in favor of this approach. This is something I'd like more of so I can run it and do a comparison.

 

[cbwjm]

Definitely a cool post with some cool ideas. Love the idea about the fire elemental's aura gaining and losing strength as it takes cold or fire damage. That troll would be a great fight and I do like that there is a level range. The idea of seeing my players faces as they score a crit, only to see some troll bits animate and attack them would be priceless.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Definitely a cool post with some cool ideas. Love the idea about the fire elemental's aura gaining and losing strength as it takes cold or fire damage. That troll would be a great fight and I do like that there is a level range. The idea of seeing my players faces as they score a crit, only to see some troll bits animate and attack them would be priceless.

I'm totally describing that as "You hew his arm. Immediately he starts to grow a little stumpy arm - but wait! The fallen arm wiggles until it's up on the hand, and then it comes charging toward you, using its fingers for little legs and it's stump as a bludgeon!"