Changing up a monster’s stat block can drastically change the way they function in and out of combat, the way the players and their characters receive them, and even add to the story of the encounter or the world at large! It also helps keep the game fresh, so players aren’t fighting the exact same monsters over and over again, or the same ones they faced last campaign. And we’re going to discuss some simple ways to do that in this week’s article!
Have we lost what makes the creatively colorful and varied races of the world unique and interesting in the name of creativity?
Among the many and varied races you can play in Dungeons & Dragons, few are as truly unique as the warforged. Unlike other humanoid races, the warforged are not limited by their biology. Instead, their appearance and abilities are limited only by the imaginations of their creators.
Grungs are a fierce, proud race of tree-dwelling, amphibious, frog-like humanoids that typically hail from jungle and rainforest climates. They are only three feet tall on average, but are fierce combatants despite their size, relying on their natural advantages and ingenuity over sheer power...
The Drow originate from the Underdark, an otherworldly layer of the Prime Material plane far below the surface where most other races live. The Drow aren’t just subterranean elves, however. The Underdark is more like another dimension or plane of existence. It is suffused with foreign magic and alien forms of life. Their prolonged exposure to this magic (called “faerzress”) has fundamentally altered their elven biology...
