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DROW PRIESTESS OF LOLTH: Gauntlet Chase
How to Use: An Evil Cleric In the previous article, we covered the core tactics for running a drow priestess of Lolth. To summarise briefly, the priestess is a spellcaster who cannot stand toe-to-toe with the party; if she does, the fight will end in a single round. She has three primary methods of attacking: Continue reading
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DROW MAGE Part 2: Dark Magic and Dark Tactics
How to Use a Drow Mage, Part 2 Welcome to the second part of my creative ways to use the drow mage. In part one, we discussed how to keep the mage alive in combat for the entire first round — and quite a few more rounds beyond that — as well as a number Continue reading
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DROW MAGE & Keeping Spellcasters Alive in Battle
How to Keep an Enemy Mage Alive Adjusting HP The drow mage is incredibly weak, with only 45 HP for a CR 7. It’s probable that if this statblock had been updated for the 2024 Monster Manual, the HP would have gone up the same way it did for the CR 6 mage, but it 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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COPPER DRAGON WYRMLING: Trickery on the Battlefield and Beyond
How to Use a DnD Wyrmling I mentioned in chromatic dragon wyrmlings that I dislike the idea of using wyrmlings as enemies. In my mind, a battle against a dragon should be impressive, and using wyrmlings as enemies robs dragons of their majesty. With that said, here are a few encounters if you do want Continue reading
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BRONZE DRAGON WYRMLING: Hidden in the Mist
How to Use – The Bronze Wyrmling’s Home Combat Encounter 1 (difficulty 4) For good territory for a bronze dragon wyrmling, or wyrmlings (I see little reason to assume that good alignment dragon wyrmlings would be solitary), I would suggest a cave complex. Because this is a good dragon, and because one of a bronze Continue reading
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BRASS DRAGON WYRMLING: Hostile in the Heart of Flames
How to Use a Wyrmling as an Ally When I came to the first chromatic dragon wyrmling, I spoke out against using wyrmlings. I argued that dragons should feel like a formidable enemy, and that wyrmlings as villains make dragons feel weak. I should have added a caveat. That applies only when the wyrmlings are Continue reading
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TYRANNASAURES REX: A Dumb Beast, and an Epic Boss
The tyrannosaurus rex is an exciting boss to face, given its rep. In fact, it’s one of those rare monsters that will be exciting encounter just on the strength of their name, or reputation. With other monsters, there are various ways to make them exciting, but they won’t measure up to the reputation that the 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.