Monster Manual Design Changes! (MD 226)

Episode 226 of Mastering Dungeons!  Main topic: Monster Manual Design! We review the latest monster previews and continue to examine how 2024 has changed monster design. News: ENNies Changes AI Policy, Dimension 20 Rocks Garden, Kickstarter Breakdown, and more! Contents 00:00 Dimension 20 Rocks Garden 03:11 How Restart Campaign? 10:23 Emergency Takeoff Scenario? 20:46 Do You Fudge Dice? 29:50 New MM Previews 37:53 ENnies AI Policy Change 43:33 Kobold Press on Kickstarter Business 50:01 Keith Baker on Fiendish Gnolls 54:33 MM Design Comparisons 55:18 Empyreans 01:11:48 Ancient Gold Dragon 01:19:44 Semi-Alphabetical Actions 01:26:47 Vampire Familiar 01:34:48 Gargoyle 01:37:02 False Appearance Changes 01:39:10 Mimic Shapeshift 01:41:27 Which Mini Wore It Better? 01:42:34 Shout-Outs Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/  Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.