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Sean Merwin

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Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

I can understand the desire to update the rules and make it a much better mechanical experience for people that are playing the game mechanically. So capitalize words. Don't love it, understand that tendency to do. But we get something like the sticky shield.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

I can understand the desire to update the rules and make it a much better mechanical experience for people that are playing the game mechanically. So capitalize words. Don't love it, understand that tendency to do. But we get something like the sticky shield.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

So it's while stuck, in other words, you hit the Kuo-Toa, it's got a sticky shield, you miss as a reaction, they stick the weapon to the shield. And so it says while stuck, the weapon can't be used. Now, if we're playing a game that's more narrative-based, cool. There we go.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

So it's while stuck, in other words, you hit the Kuo-Toa, it's got a sticky shield, you miss as a reaction, they stick the weapon to the shield. And so it says while stuck, the weapon can't be used. Now, if we're playing a game that's more narrative-based, cool. There we go.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

But I'm going to come up against, at not a very high level, somebody who has a sword or a weapon that can also be used to cast spells from. You can cast a fireball from this quarterstaff. So you go up and you hit the monster with the quarterstaff. Okay, it's stuck and the weapon can't be used. bought, can I cast the fireball from it? Well, no, it says the weapon can't be used.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

But I'm going to come up against, at not a very high level, somebody who has a sword or a weapon that can also be used to cast spells from. You can cast a fireball from this quarterstaff. So you go up and you hit the monster with the quarterstaff. Okay, it's stuck and the weapon can't be used. bought, can I cast the fireball from it? Well, no, it says the weapon can't be used.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Well, that's not using the weapon, right? And you've created, you've actually created all of the things that you need to say, While stuck, the weapon cannot be used to make a melee or ranged weapon attack. You know, whatever. You've made actions. You can still use the magic action to whatever. You've done it. So go through with it. Go all the way.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Well, that's not using the weapon, right? And you've created, you've actually created all of the things that you need to say, While stuck, the weapon cannot be used to make a melee or ranged weapon attack. You know, whatever. You've made actions. You can still use the magic action to whatever. You've done it. So go through with it. Go all the way.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Show me how to run this game that you have so carefully created the words to match.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Show me how to run this game that you have so carefully created the words to match.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Right. Exactly, exactly.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Right. Exactly, exactly.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Yeah, yeah. And the last thing about the Gotoh is the sticky net. So I'm cool with it, right? They throw a net on you and you're restrained and you need to cut it off or break out. And then the net is destroyed. Do they have more than one? It doesn't say like once per day or one time only. It's just...

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Yeah, yeah. And the last thing about the Gotoh is the sticky net. So I'm cool with it, right? They throw a net on you and you're restrained and you need to cut it off or break out. And then the net is destroyed. Do they have more than one? It doesn't say like once per day or one time only. It's just...

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Well, in that earlier preview, there were, I don't think, any gear descriptors. So we don't know. Maybe there will be gear. Maybe the sticky net will be gear that you can then take. But maybe that. We don't know. Well, I can safely say that the skeleton...

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Well, in that earlier preview, there were, I don't think, any gear descriptors. So we don't know. Maybe there will be gear. Maybe the sticky net will be gear that you can then take. But maybe that. We don't know. Well, I can safely say that the skeleton...

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

There is one difference between what we saw in the preview and what we know is the final version because it was in the player's handbook, I believe. The only difference is that the dex modifier of the skeleton is one higher. So there is one extra plus to hit and one extra plus to damage. And that's the only difference that I could see between the 2014 and the 2024 skeletons.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

There is one difference between what we saw in the preview and what we know is the final version because it was in the player's handbook, I believe. The only difference is that the dex modifier of the skeleton is one higher. So there is one extra plus to hit and one extra plus to damage. And that's the only difference that I could see between the 2014 and the 2024 skeletons.

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Shall we do the Cyclops?

Mastering Dungeons
Monster Manual Comparison! (MD 225)

Shall we do the Cyclops?