So you know how the mostly humanoid stat blocks (I.E. Veterans, Nobles, Guards, etc.) are labeled as "Any Race" or "Any Alignment?" It would be incredibly nice if we could have something that you can select the certain stat block, and fill in the race and alignment, and it would do the stat adjustments and add the extra abilities that it states in the DMG. This is just an idea but it would make creating monsters incredibly faster than having to type it all in ourselves!
This is actually something they've said is in the works for the monster builder that's on the road map. The idea is that just like you said, you'd be able to change a monster from 'any race' to say a dwarf and it'd adjust the stat block to have dwarf racial traits
So you know how the mostly humanoid stat blocks (I.E. Veterans, Nobles, Guards, etc.) are labeled as "Any Race" or "Any Alignment?" It would be incredibly nice if we could have something that you can select the certain stat block, and fill in the race and alignment, and it would do the stat adjustments and add the extra abilities that it states in the DMG. This is just an idea but it would make creating monsters incredibly faster than having to type it all in ourselves!
This is actually something they've said is in the works for the monster builder that's on the road map. The idea is that just like you said, you'd be able to change a monster from 'any race' to say a dwarf and it'd adjust the stat block to have dwarf racial traits
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Oh terrific! I don't normally have time to watch any of the recaps or Q&A's, so I'm glad I heard about it now!