Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

I suppose that counts as a version of an existing monster, I guess. I guess. But that Haunting Revenant, I love. I love that. It's just amazing. I want to use that in my... I just like... Just the art. I just want to use that monster.

I suppose that counts as a version of an existing monster, I guess. I guess. But that Haunting Revenant, I love. I love that. It's just amazing. I want to use that in my... I just like... Just the art. I just want to use that monster.

I'm assuming it's got speed. Oh, no, it's got speed. At 30 feet, it can move. It can be cased by a house.

I'm assuming it's got speed. Oh, no, it's got speed. At 30 feet, it can move. It can be cased by a house.

Yeah. One of the other things they've done, and this is a brilliant idea, I don't know where they got it from, but they've included tables of random fluff text to be applied to each creature. For example, the gelatinous cube I'm looking at right now, you roll D6 and it says what's floating in the cube.

Yeah. One of the other things they've done, and this is a brilliant idea, I don't know where they got it from, but they've included tables of random fluff text to be applied to each creature. For example, the gelatinous cube I'm looking at right now, you roll D6 and it says what's floating in the cube.

It could be a chest or a recently trapped mimic or a key to a nearby door or coffer, a remarkable weapon in need of repair, a skeleton belonging to a famous adventurer, a tablet bearing a mysterious message. So it's like contextual tables of information along with each monster. It's an amazing idea.

It could be a chest or a recently trapped mimic or a key to a nearby door or coffer, a remarkable weapon in need of repair, a skeleton belonging to a famous adventurer, a tablet bearing a mysterious message. So it's like contextual tables of information along with each monster. It's an amazing idea.

Do you know, I don't have actually seen any evidence that there's knowledge checks in there. There might be but I haven't seen them if and they haven't been mentioned.

Do you know, I don't have actually seen any evidence that there's knowledge checks in there. There might be but I haven't seen them if and they haven't been mentioned.

Yeah. So we got here, we got a... So we previewed the Ancient Gold Dragon, I think it was last week, but we only had the left half of the stat block last week. We've now got the full stat block and also some notes about how it's different to the old one. And this is like the stat block format. You can see the different... I mean, we've covered a lot of this stuff already, to be honest. Yeah.

Yeah. So we got here, we got a... So we previewed the Ancient Gold Dragon, I think it was last week, but we only had the left half of the stat block last week. We've now got the full stat block and also some notes about how it's different to the old one. And this is like the stat block format. You can see the different... I mean, we've covered a lot of this stuff already, to be honest. Yeah.

But it's all kind of compiled into one kind of image. So you can see the initiative modifier at the top there. which is a very useful idea. I like that. You can see the new layout, the stat modifiers and the saves. You can see how traits and actions are separated into different sections with headers now. Different phraseology, like they're using the term D20 test.

But it's all kind of compiled into one kind of image. So you can see the initiative modifier at the top there. which is a very useful idea. I like that. You can see the new layout, the stat modifiers and the saves. You can see how traits and actions are separated into different sections with headers now. Different phraseology, like they're using the term D20 test.

One thing that I have noticed is spells are So if you look at these stat blocks, all it does is tell you that they can cast a spell, but you still have to go and look it up somewhere else.

One thing that I have noticed is spells are So if you look at these stat blocks, all it does is tell you that they can cast a spell, but you still have to go and look it up somewhere else.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you see this dragon. You see this dragon. You can see what spells it's got, you know, detect magic and guiding bolt and things like that. But you've got to go and look those spells up elsewhere.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you see this dragon. You see this dragon. You can see what spells it's got, you know, detect magic and guiding bolt and things like that. But you've got to go and look those spells up elsewhere.

Hmm.

Hmm.