It says on it's stat card, This stat block is meant to be added to the stats of an adult metallic dragon. The features and abilities are now options available to the dragon.
Does this mean it gets the stats of any metallic dragon nearby? And if no nearby dragon does that mean it has no stats and can be instantly killed? It's armor class is 1, hit points, speed, strength, dexterity, have no numbers at all without any metallic dragons nearby.
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
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"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are to fast: I would catch it."
"I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation."
"Well of course I know that. What else is there? A kitten?"
"You'd like to think that, Wouldn't you?"
"A duck."
"What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"
Okay. So this is a third party template for a miniature created by wild-spire miniatures. It is intended for building your own encounters/campaigns.
To use it,
Choose an adult chromatic dragon to apply it. This determines the starting stat block that you will then update.
Modify the attributes as indicated.
Modify related attributes (HP), bonuses, and DCs where the attribute dependency is known based on the changes in the bonuses.
It gains proficiency in intelligence saving throws
It gains proficiency in History, Nature, and Arcana
It gains 2 languages.
It gains the Lucky feat with 5 luck points.
It gains the Powers of Deduction Bonus Action
When it uses its breath weapon, it can add 3D8 damage of an energy type chosen from the list.
It gains the Spark of Luck Legendary Action (note that the commentary indicates that it is suggested that it used once)
The CR increases by 2. NOTE: if you change the CR, it can change the monster's proficiency bonus. For example, taking an Adult Black Dragon from 14 to 16 doesn't change the proficiency bonus, but changing an Adult Blue Dragon from 16 to 18 does, increasing every attack bonus, proficient skill bonus, proficient save bonus, and every save DC. I doubt Wild Spire took this into account.
Update any bonuses and DCs if the proficiency bonus increased.
Presumably the attribute increases or decreases might change the save DCs or attack bonuses of the dragon's spells, but that is not called out in the description.
Using the Adult Red Dragon from 2014. I can't link/reproduce the 2024 block so I am using the 2014 version. Changes I made are in bold (with decreases being in red and increases and additions in green.)
Bookish Adult Red Dragon
Huge Dragon, Chaotic Evil
Armor Class19 (natural armor)
Hit Points218(19d12 + 95)
Speed40 ft., climb 40 ft., fly 80 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 27 (+8) 10 (+0) 21 (+5)20 (+5) 17 (+3) 25 (+7)
Saving ThrowsDEX +6, CON +11, INT +11, WIS +9, CHA +13
Frightful Presence.This is probably a Charisma based save. Change DC from 19 to 21?
Fire Breath (Recharge 5–6). The dragon exhales fire in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC * Dexterity saving throw, taking 63 (18d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This is probably a Constitution based save and should be changed from 21 to 19. Also, the Dragon may add 3D8 acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage.
Legendary Actions
No change.
Detect. No change.
Tail Attack. No change.
Wing Attack (Costs 2 Actions). No change. This appears to be a Strength based save and is not modified by the template.
Spark of Luck.
I hope looking at the before and after helps you see how to apply it to any Adult Chromatic Dragon in the 2014 or 2024 Monster Manual.
Okay. So this is a third party template for a miniature created by wild-spire miniatures. It is intended for building your own encounters/campaigns.
To use it,
Choose an adult chromatic dragon to apply it. This determines the starting stat block that you will then update.
Modify the attributes as indicated.
Modify related attributes (HP), bonuses, and DCs where the attribute dependency is known based on the changes in the bonuses.
It gains proficiency in intelligence saving throws
It gains proficiency in History, Nature, and Arcana
It gains 2 languages.
It gains the Lucky feat with 5 luck points.
It gains the Powers of Deduction Bonus Action
When it uses its breath weapon, it can add 3D8 damage of an energy type chosen from the list.
It gains the Spark of Luck Legendary Action (note that the commentary indicates that it is suggested that it used once)
The CR increases by 2. NOTE: if you change the CR, it can change the monster's proficiency bonus. For example, taking an Adult Black Dragon from 14 to 16 doesn't change the proficiency bonus, but changing an Adult Blue Dragon from 16 to 18 does, increasing every attack bonus, proficient skill bonus, proficient save bonus, and every save DC. I doubt Wild Spire took this into account.
Update any bonuses and DCs if the proficiency bonus increased.
Presumably the attribute increases or decreases might change the save DCs or attack bonuses of the dragon's spells, but that is not called out in the description.
Using the Adult Red Dragon from 2014. I can't link/reproduce the 2024 block so I am using the 2014 version. Changes I made are in bold (with decreases being in red and increases and additions in green.)
Bookish Adult Red Dragon
Huge Dragon, Chaotic Evil
Armor Class19 (natural armor)
Hit Points218(19d12 + 95)
Speed40 ft., climb 40 ft., fly 80 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 27 (+8) 10 (+0) 21 (+5)20 (+5) 17 (+3) 25 (+7)
Saving ThrowsDEX +6, CON +11, INT +11, WIS +9, CHA +13
Frightful Presence.This is probably a Charisma based save. Change DC from 19 to 21?
Fire Breath (Recharge 5–6). The dragon exhales fire in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC * Dexterity saving throw, taking 63 (18d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This is probably a Constitution based save and should be changed from 21 to 19. Also, the Dragon may add 3D8 acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage.
Legendary Actions
No change.
Detect. No change.
Tail Attack. No change.
Wing Attack (Costs 2 Actions). No change. This appears to be a Strength based save and is not modified by the template.
Spark of Luck.
I hope looking at the before and after helps you see how to apply it to any Adult Chromatic Dragon in the 2014 or 2024 Monster Manual.
How did you determine it would have less hit points than the red dragon? And does the red dragon have to be around the bookish dragon for him to take stats from it?
I should have included the explanation from the company which makes no sense to me.
"Oh, fair question. Apologies for any confusion. Take a look at the "Monster Template" text box below the stat block. The stats provided in the Bookish Dragon's block are used to enhance/subtract from whatever base dragon you choose. For example, the 1 armor class is +1 to the armor class of the base dragon stats. If you use an Adult Copper Dragon's base stats, which has an AC of 18, then the Adult (Copper) Bookish Dragon is a 19 AC. If something is blank in the stat sheet, then it is not different from the base dragon stat."
Sounds like it just enhances metallic dragons and if that's the case then bookish dragon still remains at no HP and could die if you just flick him.
The lowered hit points are due to a constitution decrease. To reiterate about templates: there is no blank bookish dragon monster. The bookish dragon entry details how you can change an existing dragon stat block to make it a bookish version of the dragon.
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"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are to fast: I would catch it."
"I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation."
"Well of course I know that. What else is there? A kitten?"
"You'd like to think that, Wouldn't you?"
"A duck."
"What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No. There is no bookish dragon. You can take a draconic stat block and alter it to become a bookish version of the stat block. A bookish gold dragon is just a gold dragon with a few changes applied to it.
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"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are to fast: I would catch it."
"I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation."
"Well of course I know that. What else is there? A kitten?"
"You'd like to think that, Wouldn't you?"
"A duck."
"What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No. There is no bookish dragon. You can take a draconic stat block and alter it to become a bookish version of the stat block. A bookish gold dragon is just a gold dragon with a few changes applied to it.
It must be real, there's lore for it. Let's use in universe explanations for a second here. How does this dragon function in the world of D&D? Does it devour a metallic dragon and steal it's stats or something? Obviously being an official monster there's no real answer so let's just do some make believe and assuming.
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No, there is no specific Bookish Dragon.
"Bookish" is a template that you paste on top of another dragon stat block in order to create a Bookish version of that dragon.
So, you take the stat block of, for example, an Adult Gold Dragon. You change that stat block by adding and subtracting the attributes and abilities, and then the result is that you have created the stat block of a creature that is now called a "Bookish Adult Gold Dragon".
You could apply the changes from the same template to other dragons to create a "Bookish Ancient Copper Dragon" or a "Bookish Young Silver Dragon". But there is no creature just called a "Bookish Dragon".
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No. There is no bookish dragon. You can take a draconic stat block and alter it to become a bookish version of the stat block. A bookish gold dragon is just a gold dragon with a few changes applied to it.
It must be real, there's lore for it. Let's use in universe explanations for a second here. How does this dragon function in the world of D&D? Does it devour a metallic dragon and steal it's stats or something? Obviously being an official monster there's no real answer so let's just do some make believe and assuming.
I'm trying very hard to not be insulting. What this template does is tell you how to alter the stats of an existing dragon to make it bookish. It's the same thing as the shadow dragon template that tells you how the stats of a dragon change after a long exposure to negative energy. There is no false hydra like entity of the mysterious bookish dragon consuming other dragons' stats.
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"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are to fast: I would catch it."
"I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation."
"Well of course I know that. What else is there? A kitten?"
"You'd like to think that, Wouldn't you?"
"A duck."
"What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No. There is no bookish dragon. You can take a draconic stat block and alter it to become a bookish version of the stat block. A bookish gold dragon is just a gold dragon with a few changes applied to it.
It must be real, there's lore for it. Let's use in universe explanations for a second here. How does this dragon function in the world of D&D? Does it devour a metallic dragon and steal it's stats or something? Obviously being an official monster there's no real answer so let's just do some make believe and assuming.
The bookish dragon is not a standalone creature, just as the "Ancient Dragon" isn't a standalone creature. It is whole subcategory of dragons just like "Wyrmling", "Adult", and "Ancient" based on the dragon's personality - i.e. based on that dragon having a "bookish" (aka nerdy / geeky / intellectual / studious / scholarly / erudite) personality. However rather than write out statblocks for each variant of the Bookish Dragon - i.e. the Copper Bookish Dragon, the Gold Bookish Dragon, the Silver Bookish Dragon, the Brass Bookish Dragon, the Bronze Bookish Dragon, etc.... The authors gave you a template to apply to your favourite existing dragon statblock.
If you can't comprehend how a template works by overlaying the abilities onto another statblock as detailed by SmiteMakesRight, then sorry no one here can help you and you should 100% run it as a dragon with 0 hit points that instantaneously dies the moment it comes into existence.
To say it another way, think of the Template like a Class. An Adult Chromatic (Black, Blue, Green, Red, or White) Dragon is a Creature. When you make a Bookish version of that creature, you make modifications to the statistic block like I did above. Now, instead of the original Adult Dragon, you have a Bookish Dragon that you use instead.
How did you determine it would have less hit points than the red dragon? And does the red dragon have to be around the bookish dragon for him to take stats from it?
Years of Jedi teaching experience. In all seriousness, I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons for decades and while 5e doesn't have official templates (possibly for good reason), 3rd edition did (a lot of them). So I am experienced with applying those that are well worded and those that are not. This one is not that well worded and should have called out the details I mentioned I listed in my first post.
Every time you calculate hit points for monsters, you take the average of the hit dice, rounded down (19D12 = 123.5, rounded down to 123). Then you add the Constitution modifier times the number of hit dice (19 * 5 = 95). Finally you add them together (123+95 = 218).
The same applies to attack bonuses, save bonuses, and skill bonuses. They will be the listed proficiency bonus plus the appropriate attribute modifier. This is why I increased Perception and Passive Perception (the Wisdom modifier increased by 2) and modified the saving throws.
Saving throws will be 8 + the listed proficiency bonus + the appropriate modifier.
You can also use these formulas to determine the attribute for a bonus or save. For example, for the Dragon's Breath, the original DC is 21. Subtracting 8 (base value) and 6 (proficiency bonus) leaves 7 and the attribute with a 7 modifier in the original block is Constitution. There could be a hidden modifier, but this is most likely a Constitution saving throw.
Depending on the attribute affected, it could affect damage as well. If an effect reduced Strength, the Dragons bite, claw, and tail attack bonuses would have gone down as well the bonuses to damage.
In my opinion, they should have detailed all the statistic changes and let you know that you do not need to recalculate any bonuses. Also, I have my doubts on the appropriateness of the Bookish Red Dragon as a CR 19 encounter.
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No. There is no bookish dragon. You can take a draconic stat block and alter it to become a bookish version of the stat block. A bookish gold dragon is just a gold dragon with a few changes applied to it.
It must be real, there's lore for it. Let's use in universe explanations for a second here. How does this dragon function in the world of D&D? Does it devour a metallic dragon and steal it's stats or something? Obviously being an official monster there's no real answer so let's just do some make believe and assuming.
I'm trying very hard to not be insulting. What this template does is tell you how to alter the stats of an existing dragon to make it bookish. It's the same thing as the shadow dragon template that tells you how the stats of a dragon change after a long exposure to negative energy. There is no false hydra like entity of the mysterious bookish dragon consuming other dragons' stats.
Thank you for trying so hard not to be insulting 🙄 As someone with reading and comprehension difficulties it can take several explanations for me to understand something. I was just curious why even bother giving a figure for a creature that doesn't technically exist. But now I know, that figure is just a bookish whatever metallic dragon.
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No. There is no bookish dragon. You can take a draconic stat block and alter it to become a bookish version of the stat block. A bookish gold dragon is just a gold dragon with a few changes applied to it.
It must be real, there's lore for it. Let's use in universe explanations for a second here. How does this dragon function in the world of D&D? Does it devour a metallic dragon and steal it's stats or something? Obviously being an official monster there's no real answer so let's just do some make believe and assuming.
The bookish dragon is not a standalone creature, just as the "Ancient Dragon" isn't a standalone creature. It is whole subcategory of dragons just like "Wyrmling", "Adult", and "Ancient" based on the dragon's personality - i.e. based on that dragon having a "bookish" (aka nerdy / geeky / intellectual / studious / scholarly / erudite) personality. However rather than write out statblocks for each variant of the Bookish Dragon - i.e. the Copper Bookish Dragon, the Gold Bookish Dragon, the Silver Bookish Dragon, the Brass Bookish Dragon, the Bronze Bookish Dragon, etc.... The authors gave you a template to apply to your favourite existing dragon statblock.
If you can't comprehend how a template works by overlaying the abilities onto another statblock as detailed by SmiteMakesRight, then sorry no one here can help you and you should 100% run it as a dragon with 0 hit points that instantaneously dies the moment it comes into existence.
To say it another way, think of the Template like a Class. An Adult Chromatic (Black, Blue, Green, Red, or White) Dragon is a Creature. When you make a Bookish version of that creature, you make modifications to the statistic block like I did above. Now, instead of the original Adult Dragon, you have a Bookish Dragon that you use instead.
How did you determine it would have less hit points than the red dragon? And does the red dragon have to be around the bookish dragon for him to take stats from it?
Years of Jedi teaching experience. In all seriousness, I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons for decades and while 5e doesn't have official templates (possibly for good reason), 3rd edition did (a lot of them). So I am experienced with applying those that are well worded and those that are not. This one is not that well worded and should have called out the details I mentioned I listed in my first post.
Every time you calculate hit points for monsters, you take the average of the hit dice, rounded down (19D12 = 123.5, rounded down to 123). Then you add the Constitution modifier times the number of hit dice (19 * 5 = 95). Finally you add them together (123+95 = 218).
The same applies to attack bonuses, save bonuses, and skill bonuses. They will be the listed proficiency bonus plus the appropriate attribute modifier. This is why I increased Perception and Passive Perception (the Wisdom modifier increased by 2) and modified the saving throws.
Saving throws will be 8 + the listed proficiency bonus + the appropriate modifier.
You can also use these formulas to determine the attribute for a bonus or save. For example, for the Dragon's Breath, the original DC is 21. Subtracting 8 (base value) and 6 (proficiency bonus) leaves 7 and the attribute with a 7 modifier in the original block is Constitution. There could be a hidden modifier, but this is most likely a Constitution saving throw.
Depending on the attribute affected, it could affect damage as well. If an effect reduced Strength, the Dragons bite, claw, and tail attack bonuses would have gone down as well the bonuses to damage.
In my opinion, they should have detailed all the statistic changes and let you know that you do not need to recalculate any bonuses. Also, I have my doubts on the appropriateness of the Bookish Red Dragon as a CR 19 encounter.
Math hurts 😂 luckily I found a website that calculates it for me.
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It says on it's stat card, This stat block is meant to be added to the stats of an adult metallic dragon. The features and abilities are now options available to the dragon.
Does this mean it gets the stats of any metallic dragon nearby? And if no nearby dragon does that mean it has no stats and can be instantly killed? It's armor class is 1, hit points, speed, strength, dexterity, have no numbers at all without any metallic dragons nearby.
I believe that this is meant to be added to the stat block of a dragon - not to be used as a separate monster with weird abilities. This means that you take a dragon's stat block and apply the changes listed in the entry.
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Okay. So this is a third party template for a miniature created by wild-spire miniatures. It is intended for building your own encounters/campaigns.
To use it,
Presumably the attribute increases or decreases might change the save DCs or attack bonuses of the dragon's spells, but that is not called out in the description.
Using the Adult Red Dragon from 2014. I can't link/reproduce the 2024 block so I am using the 2014 version. Changes I made are in bold (with decreases being in red and increases and additions in green.)
I hope looking at the before and after helps you see how to apply it to any Adult Chromatic Dragon in the 2014 or 2024 Monster Manual.
How to add Tooltips.
How did you determine it would have less hit points than the red dragon? And does the red dragon have to be around the bookish dragon for him to take stats from it?
I should have included the explanation from the company which makes no sense to me.
"Oh, fair question. Apologies for any confusion. Take a look at the "Monster Template" text box below the stat block. The stats provided in the Bookish Dragon's block are used to enhance/subtract from whatever base dragon you choose. For example, the 1 armor class is +1 to the armor class of the base dragon stats. If you use an Adult Copper Dragon's base stats, which has an AC of 18, then the Adult (Copper) Bookish Dragon is a 19 AC. If something is blank in the stat sheet, then it is not different from the base dragon stat."
Sounds like it just enhances metallic dragons and if that's the case then bookish dragon still remains at no HP and could die if you just flick him.
The lowered hit points are due to a constitution decrease. To reiterate about templates: there is no blank bookish dragon monster. The bookish dragon entry details how you can change an existing dragon stat block to make it a bookish version of the dragon.
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So the Bookish dragon doesn't fight he just enhances another dragon? That sounds like what the company was trying to tell me too but that would make the bookish dragon stupid easy to kill with it having no HP.
No. There is no bookish dragon. You can take a draconic stat block and alter it to become a bookish version of the stat block. A bookish gold dragon is just a gold dragon with a few changes applied to it.
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It must be real, there's lore for it. Let's use in universe explanations for a second here. How does this dragon function in the world of D&D? Does it devour a metallic dragon and steal it's stats or something? Obviously being an official monster there's no real answer so let's just do some make believe and assuming.
No, there is no specific Bookish Dragon.
"Bookish" is a template that you paste on top of another dragon stat block in order to create a Bookish version of that dragon.
So, you take the stat block of, for example, an Adult Gold Dragon. You change that stat block by adding and subtracting the attributes and abilities, and then the result is that you have created the stat block of a creature that is now called a "Bookish Adult Gold Dragon".
You could apply the changes from the same template to other dragons to create a "Bookish Ancient Copper Dragon" or a "Bookish Young Silver Dragon". But there is no creature just called a "Bookish Dragon".
I'm trying very hard to not be insulting. What this template does is tell you how to alter the stats of an existing dragon to make it bookish. It's the same thing as the shadow dragon template that tells you how the stats of a dragon change after a long exposure to negative energy. There is no false hydra like entity of the mysterious bookish dragon consuming other dragons' stats.
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The bookish dragon is not a standalone creature, just as the "Ancient Dragon" isn't a standalone creature. It is whole subcategory of dragons just like "Wyrmling", "Adult", and "Ancient" based on the dragon's personality - i.e. based on that dragon having a "bookish" (aka nerdy / geeky / intellectual / studious / scholarly / erudite) personality. However rather than write out statblocks for each variant of the Bookish Dragon - i.e. the Copper Bookish Dragon, the Gold Bookish Dragon, the Silver Bookish Dragon, the Brass Bookish Dragon, the Bronze Bookish Dragon, etc.... The authors gave you a template to apply to your favourite existing dragon statblock.
If you can't comprehend how a template works by overlaying the abilities onto another statblock as detailed by SmiteMakesRight, then sorry no one here can help you and you should 100% run it as a dragon with 0 hit points that instantaneously dies the moment it comes into existence.
To say it another way, think of the Template like a Class. An Adult Chromatic (Black, Blue, Green, Red, or White) Dragon is a Creature. When you make a Bookish version of that creature, you make modifications to the statistic block like I did above. Now, instead of the original Adult Dragon, you have a Bookish Dragon that you use instead.
Years of Jedi teaching experience. In all seriousness, I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons for decades and while 5e doesn't have official templates (possibly for good reason), 3rd edition did (a lot of them). So I am experienced with applying those that are well worded and those that are not. This one is not that well worded and should have called out the details I mentioned I listed in my first post.
Every time you calculate hit points for monsters, you take the average of the hit dice, rounded down (19D12 = 123.5, rounded down to 123). Then you add the Constitution modifier times the number of hit dice (19 * 5 = 95). Finally you add them together (123+95 = 218).
The same applies to attack bonuses, save bonuses, and skill bonuses. They will be the listed proficiency bonus plus the appropriate attribute modifier. This is why I increased Perception and Passive Perception (the Wisdom modifier increased by 2) and modified the saving throws.
Saving throws will be 8 + the listed proficiency bonus + the appropriate modifier.
You can also use these formulas to determine the attribute for a bonus or save. For example, for the Dragon's Breath, the original DC is 21. Subtracting 8 (base value) and 6 (proficiency bonus) leaves 7 and the attribute with a 7 modifier in the original block is Constitution. There could be a hidden modifier, but this is most likely a Constitution saving throw.
Depending on the attribute affected, it could affect damage as well. If an effect reduced Strength, the Dragons bite, claw, and tail attack bonuses would have gone down as well the bonuses to damage.
In my opinion, they should have detailed all the statistic changes and let you know that you do not need to recalculate any bonuses. Also, I have my doubts on the appropriateness of the Bookish Red Dragon as a CR 19 encounter.
How to add Tooltips.
Thank you for trying so hard not to be insulting 🙄 As someone with reading and comprehension difficulties it can take several explanations for me to understand something. I was just curious why even bother giving a figure for a creature that doesn't technically exist. But now I know, that figure is just a bookish whatever metallic dragon.
You could be nicer about it.
Math hurts 😂 luckily I found a website that calculates it for me.