Dnd 5e faerie dragon series#

It's like movies you judge a musical differently than a slasher film, which is different than a RomCom. Sometimes you need a brute, and a brute should be judged by brute standards. The 'comedic schtick' is a matter of personal taste and you say yourself that you haven't used it yourself in 5ed maybe give it a try? It doesn't have to be slapstick comedy and at least it's something different to your average brute that you always just attack.Д¬ould it have been better? Yeah, sure, but without getting too exotic with parries instead of attacks (as suggested by one poster up-thread) or adding some other funky ability that will detract from its nature as a 'bruiser', what are you expecting? Not every encounter is supposed to be some wild and exciting adventure in new tactics.sometimes you just want a bruiser and the Ettin does that.In praise of 4e for a minute, giving every monster an expected combat role helped define expectations. The Ettin at least has something more than 'hit it with club' with it's better Perception and Resistance to status effects. You even mention one yourself a CR:3 to 4 'brute' monster to fill that gap between Ogres and Hill Giants.

Of course, Left Head may decide now is the time to take out Right Head while Righty is distracted. I've never used Ettercaps, but I think maybe I should consider doing so, as one of the tables I DM for is heading into an enchanted forest.ДЄt least give Ettins multiattack because they've got two heads.

Dnd 5e faerie dragon series#

And once again, in an ongoing series of complaints, where's something for scale? The armor is similar to that of the Roman Retiarius gladiator, but that's no fighting stance, and the weapon should be in the hand that doesn't have the shoulder guard. And why, when deities occupy every point on the alignment compass, would Empyreans have one consistent alignment? Also agree that the art is off. Consideration that Thor's kid ought to be different than Poseidon's. TL DR there's lots of ways to keep that CG alignment and still have a good aligned party need to fight Big Spoiled Brat.ДЄbsolutely agree with Mr. Imagine Hercules trying to prove himself to the Greek Pantheon by destroying all the ungrateful mortals so that they can create new & improved humanity or the Creatures of Prometheus deciding that their Daddy didn't get his liver torn out eternally so that this sorry lot can make such a mess of things. A demigod who thinks mortals don't deserve to live because they've screwed up Daddy's gifts to them, possibly because of some serious Daddy issues of their own, also works. Regarding Empyreans: remember Noah? Remember Ultron? It's very possible for Someone, with the very best of intentions, to decide that it's time to hit the Big Reset Button on this world because things are FUBAR (Fouled Up Beyond Any Redemption). Please find something more interesting to do with CR4's worth of XP. If 'my time is much more valuable than this' was ever encapsulated into a monster, this is it. While traveling to their next destination, the party randomly encounters a giant! With two heads! Legends speak of a two-headed giant in a cave that guards a poorly-locked treasure chest. Oh, and the heads hate each other, just in case you weren't sick of that schtick yet. Is the orc angle new? I don't know and I don't care, because it doesn't really amount to much more than an excuse to use them with orcs or demons. It might as well be a block of tofu with a multiattack. The purpose of an ettin is 'serve as a transition between ogres and hill giants on the random encounter table.' The tactics of an ettin are 'hit things until they stop moving.' This does no special damage, has no special abilities, and has no special resistances. The execution is nice it's just that the subject matter is not particularly thrilling. To round off the Es, we have everyone's forgettable mid-tier redundant monster: the ettin!