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WATER ELEMENTAL: Flowing Out of Control
How to Use: Keeping the Overwhelming Elemental in Check The water elemental’s stat block has a problem: its special attack is overwhelmingly strong. When it uses Water-Surge/Whelm and captures a PC, that PC is basically helpless. Then it just dives back into the water. With 90 feet of movement, the other players have no hope… Continue reading
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FIRE ELEMENTAL: As Everything Around Burns Down
How to Use: Basic Fire Elemental Tactics The fire elemental’s behavior is motivated by a liking to setting things on fire. Like the other elementals, it isn’t trying to hurt them; it’s trying to share its flame element with them. This should result in the fire elemental constantly attacking the PCs who aren’t on fire… Continue reading
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EARTH ELEMENTAL: Four Unique Ways to Use the Wall Walker
How to Use: The Enemy Inside the Walls The earth elemental’s primary abilities are earth glide and siege monster. As these don’t work very well defensively, the earth elemental is going to have to be used as an attacker/invader. (Technically, it would also make a fantastic sentry. Undetectable until it attacks, and then hitting… Continue reading
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AIR ELEMENTAL: Four Ways to Disrupt the Party with Whirlwind
How to Use: Whirlwind Looking at the air elemental’s stat block, its most potent attack is probably supposed to be whirlwind attack, judging by the fact that it’s on a recharge. However, the whirlwind attack doesn’t seem worth it unless the air elemental can capture at least two PCs in its affect, preferably more, and… Continue reading
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SILVER DRAGON WYRMLING: Climbing for Survival and Chasing Down Caverns
Dnd’s silver dragon wyrmling is weak, but can really hamper movement. Here are four separate encounters built around that. How to Use – Silver Dragon Wyrmling Tactics The best way to use any wyrmling, tactically, is for it to hit them with its breath weapon when available, then use its movement speed to get around… Continue reading
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LEMURE: Monster, Obstacle, and Victim (With Flames)
How to Use: Lemure “Tactics” The lemure is actually stronger than the manes (the demon equivalent.) Where the manes is a CR 1/8, however, the lemure is a CR 0. This reason is that the lemure will not go after PCs to attack them. How should they be played? Lemures are mindless but not harmless.… Continue reading
About Me
I’ve been a DM since I was about 10 years old. (Not of D&D, admittedly, but still.) After growing bored of fights that were all the same, dungeons heavily populated by one monster type, and a general shortage of ideas, I figured I’d embark on my own trip through the Monster Manual, one monster at a time. Feel free to join the quest.