I have read the manuals (mostly) and am curious about something. I am going to run the Lost Mines of Phandelver. Do I have to create the stats for each of the bad guys, or do I just use the stats out of the monster manual? Please help. Any and all is greatly appreciated.
You can make custom monsters if you want, but adventure books will always have stats for anything your party is meant to fight either from the MM or in the adventure book itself.
If you have a physical copy of the adventure, the stat blocks are in the back of the adventure. If not, the creatures all appear in the monster manual with the same stats.
I am very grateful to 5e for providing us with standard hit points for all the monsters.. It is great timesaver over rolling individual hit dice for each one. You lose a little bit of variety and individuality, but it saves massive amounts of prep time.
I will still build unique encounters and special monsters, usually the boss up individually, but for the rank and file I just use the standard stat block from the books. I may describe a goblin as using a mace or a short sword, but they get treated the same.
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I have read the manuals (mostly) and am curious about something. I am going to run the Lost Mines of Phandelver. Do I have to create the stats for each of the bad guys, or do I just use the stats out of the monster manual? Please help. Any and all is greatly appreciated.
You can make custom monsters if you want, but adventure books will always have stats for anything your party is meant to fight either from the MM or in the adventure book itself.
Thank you very much
If you have a physical copy of the adventure, the stat blocks are in the back of the adventure. If not, the creatures all appear in the monster manual with the same stats.
I am very grateful to 5e for providing us with standard hit points for all the monsters.. It is great timesaver over rolling individual hit dice for each one. You lose a little bit of variety and individuality, but it saves massive amounts of prep time.
I will still build unique encounters and special monsters, usually the boss up individually, but for the rank and file I just use the standard stat block from the books. I may describe a goblin as using a mace or a short sword, but they get treated the same.