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Issue 54’s issued – a bestiary all about giants and monstrous humanoids – featured additional traits you could add to monsters to make them a little more interesting and to surprise veteran players.
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Because I cannot fit all my ideas into one 28-page zine, this web enhancement lists some variants of those monsters that appear in Issue 54 of the d12 Monthly zine.
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Here’s the hard truth: if your wolves, orcs, and liches all fight like fearless sacks of hit points until they fall over, you’re not running monsters, you’re running target dummies.
Intelligence is the deciding factor in how a monster acts, reacts, and tries not to die.
Ignore it, and every encounter feels the same. Use it, and suddenly the dungeon feels alive and hostile – in the best possible way.
This is a guide to running monsters by Intelligence.
No theory. No fluff. Just behaviour you can apply at the table.
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Issue 44 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out!
Issue 44 is the Weird Monster issue. It will feature articles on corrupted flora & fauna and undead, a guest post on making better monsters, combining monsters, and much more! (See below for details).