The 2024 Monster Manual introduces static initiative values for monsters. This change, while seemingly simple, has the potential to significantly alter the flow of combat. Let’s explore what this means for your games.
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Level 11 encounter: Stone Golem
You creep cautiously into a room with two rows of crumbling statues; oversized tributes to ancient wizards, their features twisting grotesquely in the flickering light. At the end of the room, a silhouette of a Mage murmuring hushed incantations…
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Level 5 Encounter: Wraith
With the release of the 2024 update for the 5e Monster Manual, let’s make a Tier 2, Level 5 encounter suitable for a party of 4.
As you crawl through the tumbled blocks of the mausoleum’s entrance, shadows grow and twist away from your torch as it suddenly flickers violently in a frigid draft exhaled from deep within the ruins; suffocating you with a cloying scent of death and damp earth.
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Level 1 Encounter: Constrictor Snakes and Crocodiles
While we wait for the 2025 Monster Manual release in February, here is an encounter built with the 2024 Free Rules: Constrictor Snake and Crocodiles.
As the party passes through a swampy area, a Constrictor Snake will try to attack a Small or Medium creature. As the group struggles with the snake, Crocodiles will move toward the commotion.
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