# monster manual (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover monster manual. Page: Feed: --- ## [Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8698) _2026-04-17 · paul · Blog of Holding_ Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I m the guy who does monsters on a business card posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Draw Steel Monsters on a Business Card, right? Well it turns out I don t have to! Amber over at amby.navy did it for me! If \[ \] ## [I’m working at MCDM!](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8692) _2026-04-03 · paul · Blog of Holding_ If I ve been quiet on this blog for a while, it s because I ve been filling my hours with a lot of RPG design: D D, A5E, Pathfinder, and, increasingly, Draw Steel (I ve been doing freelance work on the game back from when it was MCDM RPG). And now it s official! I m starting a job as Draw \[ \] ## [where are psionics from?](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8671) _2025-08-18 · paul · Blog of Holding_ A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D D psionics occurred to me. I haven t seen it before so I figured I d share it. The canonical explanation for psionics is that they re from the Far Realms: weird Lovecraftian planes beyond mortal comprehension, where squidgy creatures use psionics to do squidgy things. I think this doesn t tell \[ \] ## [Distances in the 2024 Monster Manual](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8649) _2025-03-26 · paul · Blog of Holding_ As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is how D D is this distance? D D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more than others. Will I look like a country bumpkin if I give someone a speed of 75 feet? (Answer: Obviously not. I must follow the monster s story. The \[ \] ## [5e monsters: vulnerability is bad](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8544) _2025-03-17 · paul · Blog of Holding_ One of the more puzzling non-changes in the D D 2024 edition refresh is that they didn t make any changes to damage vulnerability. In 5e D D (both 2014 and 2024), resistance to a damage type means you take half the damage. This is fine. Conversely, vulnerability to damage means you take double the damage. This is \[ \] ## [2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card v2: legendary edition](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8593) _2025-02-26 · paul · Blog of Holding_ In my post 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card, where I tried to extrapolate WOTC monster building rules from the 2024 Monster Manual, I have a lot of chart and graphs slicing up the data in various ways, one of which had a key error. When I tried to determine whether there was a \[ \] ## [looking at offensive and defensive adjustments in the 2024 monster manual](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8548) _2025-02-25 · paul · Blog of Holding_ In my post 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card, I figured out the average base statistics (HP, AC, damage per round, etc) of 2024 monsters of each Challenge Rating. Using this as a starting point, you can start to design plausible monsters with the most common stats for their CR. But of course, a \[ \] ## [2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8469) _2025-02-11 · paul · Blog of Holding_ (v2: edited 2/25/2025 to fix a data error for legendary monsters, read more here on that fix) The 2024 Monster Manual is out, so we can finally answer all the questions we have: are 2024 Monster Manual monsters tougher than 2014 monsters? How much? How does WOTC design 2024-compatible monsters, and how can I do \[ \] ## [Unofficial D&D 2024 Style Guide (Your Capitalization Questions Answered!)](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8463) _2025-01-07 · paul · Blog of Holding_ When I m writing rules for D D 2024, it annoys me not to have an official style guide. In its absence, I made my own style guide so I can quickly answer my own questions: Is it action and bonus action, or Action and Bonus Action? (neither, it s action and Bonus Action ) Am I knocked Prone , \[ \] ## [Pirate.io on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/itKBa4h2GpV4) _2025-01-07 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Pirate.io listing on Google Play to view the app’s details. ## [a quick peek at 2024 Monster Manual math](https://www.blogofholding.com/?p=8432) _2024-12-02 · paul · Blog of Holding_ As a monster designer, I m interested in seeing where the 2024 Monster Manual takes monster design. How compatible are 2014 and 2024 monsters? What are the benchmarks for a monster of a given Challenge Rating, and has it changed? I wrote about this before when we had a very small handful of monsters. By now \[ \]