making up monsters


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Im just wondering how many people make up monsters/creatures for you players to face instead of using monsters that they can just look up the stats to.
i do it because i think it adds a genuine element of uncertainty to fights.


I do because I have been told I make great and exciting monsters that people like to face.


I do a lot, though, though in many cases they are more or less variants of existing monsters (because it is much faster to use another monster's stats as a basis and go from there, and I don't have all that much prep time).

I do this party for the reason you (the OP) mention about uncertainty, and partly because it works better for the setting my game is in.


I like to use templates to do this. If I want a titanic sized shadow saurian monster, I would use spinosaurus + giant template + shadow template, for example.

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