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Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

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Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

As you can see. So the gelatinous cube has stuff that it's very small. It's got stuff that you might find floating in the cube. The gargoyle has gargoyle sculptures. The gargoyle is sculpted to appear like, and then six different things. And it's got where the gargoyle's located. The gargoyle conceals itself amidst, and that's a D8 table.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

As you can see. So the gelatinous cube has stuff that it's very small. It's got stuff that you might find floating in the cube. The gargoyle has gargoyle sculptures. The gargoyle is sculpted to appear like, and then six different things. And it's got where the gargoyle's located. The gargoyle conceals itself amidst, and that's a D8 table.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

so you can roll between those and just i mean this is all right i i i like made jokes earlier about where they got the idea from because obviously we did all that in our books ages ago um but i'm not saying they shouldn't do it and i'm not saying that we were the first to do it either no no and it has been in dnd books before so you know i was i was joking but um i think i think it's i think it's good stuff to put in there i think it's important stuff to put in there because it's just stuff from the gm digital the dm just fresh out the encounter or the

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

so you can roll between those and just i mean this is all right i i i like made jokes earlier about where they got the idea from because obviously we did all that in our books ages ago um but i'm not saying they shouldn't do it and i'm not saying that we were the first to do it either no no and it has been in dnd books before so you know i was i was joking but um i think i think it's i think it's good stuff to put in there i think it's important stuff to put in there because it's just stuff from the gm digital the dm just fresh out the encounter or the

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah. So that's the adult green dragon you've called up there, Jess, which is the first one we ever saw, I think, isn't it?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah. So that's the adult green dragon you've called up there, Jess, which is the first one we ever saw, I think, isn't it?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah. Yeah. So what else have we got? So this is the Kiwatoa. We've seen that one before as well. That one, the skeletons and the Kiwatoa, we saw about nine months ago.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah. Yeah. So what else have we got? So this is the Kiwatoa. We've seen that one before as well. That one, the skeletons and the Kiwatoa, we saw about nine months ago.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

So the Kewa Toa, you can see on there, it's got like deity features. So you roll D10 twice to find out what its head and what its body is like.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

So the Kewa Toa, you can see on there, it's got like deity features. So you roll D10 twice to find out what its head and what its body is like.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

it's all these kind of contextual things that they put in there i mean looking at it it looks like each um monster only has like one or two things like that usually one in the case of the gargoyles too so it's not like we did where you've got the signs and you've got the treasure and you've got the um names and you've got all the all the different things that we put in there the idle behaviors yeah the knowledge tables and stuff like that so step towards what we did yeah yeah

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

it's all these kind of contextual things that they put in there i mean looking at it it looks like each um monster only has like one or two things like that usually one in the case of the gargoyles too so it's not like we did where you've got the signs and you've got the treasure and you've got the um names and you've got all the all the different things that we put in there the idle behaviors yeah the knowledge tables and stuff like that so step towards what we did yeah yeah

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a tactics entry in these monsters, unless it's buried in the fluff text. It doesn't seem to be there at all.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a tactics entry in these monsters, unless it's buried in the fluff text. It doesn't seem to be there at all.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah, I think it's a useful thing.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah, I think it's a useful thing.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah, like kobolds making traps and putting a gelatinous cube in the 10-foot pit, that sort of thing.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

Yeah, like kobolds making traps and putting a gelatinous cube in the 10-foot pit, that sort of thing.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

for context people listening on the podcast as opposed to watching as we're live streaming for the first time ever and we've got we didn't really announce it um but a few people have have discovered that we're doing it and uh making comments in the chat so we're trying to we're trying to make this as interactive as we can so that was a comment from bane tbc um who commented in the chat i mean we talked about that earlier didn't we the um spells are just listed as spells they can cast and you kind of have to go and look all that up

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
331 | Epic D&D Monster Manual Preview

for context people listening on the podcast as opposed to watching as we're live streaming for the first time ever and we've got we didn't really announce it um but a few people have have discovered that we're doing it and uh making comments in the chat so we're trying to we're trying to make this as interactive as we can so that was a comment from bane tbc um who commented in the chat i mean we talked about that earlier didn't we the um spells are just listed as spells they can cast and you kind of have to go and look all that up