Comments on: Perfect Skin: Some Musing On The Design Of Monsters

By: Adventure Creation Handbook Ready

Adventure Creation Handbook Ready — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:26:31 +0000

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By: Lugh

Lugh — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:23:13 +0000

This is a great article. Not so much for the idea, which I’ve been seeing all over the place since 4e introduced it, but for the implementation. I really like the idea of doing a relatively small set of universal stat blocks. Especially if the stats key off some kind of monster level pretty easily (e.g., Reflex save equals 1/3 level, HD equals 2/3 level). That would also make it trivially easy to take an existing monster and re-scale it for any encounter, so that 3rd level PCs can reasonably fight a summoned pit fiend.

By: RPG News from Around the Net: 20-MAY-2011 | Game Knight Reviews

RPG News from Around the Net: 20-MAY-2011 | Game Knight Reviews — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:59:42 +0000

[…] front, Mike at Campaign Mastery mulls over how to design monsters more effectively in “Some Musing on the Design of Monsters.” It’s hard to argue with the fact that we need a better, more consistent way to […]

By: Jonathan Delahaye

Jonathan Delahaye — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:37:35 +0000

Been doing that since the existence of 4E :) Making the powers look / feel different is important too. It locks them in a cage of fire? Change it to ice if it fits better :) Poisonous Dragon breath? Make them “grenades” that they toss…