What happens when you have a gang of idiots, who can't understand myth of archetypes, designing a new Monster Manual? That's what 2024 D&D will demonstrate

But it will have 500+ Kewl Monsters!!!!!!

In D&D6e you defeat the monsters by misgendering them...

It was a given wotc was going to fuck this up. But who would have expected this level of stupid even from them.

Can't wait to see the art from this turkey. Probably going to be full of smiling gentle "monsters" of indeterminate gender. To solve the riddle of the sphinx you will have to correctly identify its pronouns.

Are they going to add a "Transosphinx" to the Gynosphinx and Androsphinx?

Quote from: Exploderwizard on January 11, 2025, 08:26:38 AMCan't wait to see the art from this turkey. Probably going to be full of smiling gentle "monsters" of indeterminate gender. To solve the riddle of the sphinx you will have to correctly identify its pronouns.

The 2024 DMG had an art style that was different from (and, IMO, quite a bit better than) that used in the 2024 PHB, so there's still a possibility that the 2024 MM art will not be bad.

Isn't it the marxist/commie plan to destroy the culture from within first, after they turn people into queers and dumb I mean......all these major franchises from star wars to everything are being destroyed on purpose...I don't think these companies can be that dumb to destroy themselves. I don't know people need to look into it.

I mean if you look at the stats and how these abominations to God Almighty live their lives....One trannie on tiktok just had their ribs removed to make their waist smaller said they will make a crown out of it...did you excpect anything better with these people's books.

• Transgender "women" are nearly 49 times more likely than the general population to contract HIV. (Further reading: https://tinyurl.com/2p8mh9jd)

• Transgenders have higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, mental health disorders, incarceration, homelessness, and unemployment. (Further reading: https://tinyurl.com/y9xbdqod)

• Within the last 12 months (Copyright 2015), 65% of younger transgender youth had seriously considered suicide, more than a third had attempted suicide at least once. (Further reading: https://tinyurl.com/3jc6e5s4)

• Transexual persons, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. (Further reading: https://tinyurl.com/4zpbmrcb)

If what Pundit says is true, D&D is morphing from a game about adventuring into a game about cosplaying adventurers. Instead of Conan cracking skulls, it's renfaire nerds merely pretending to kill the monsters *wink wink* when behind the scenes it's just a dude in a suit and they all eat chicken strips at the company cafeteria after the last show is over. I mean, wtf...

This is an area I'm disagreeing on Pundit with. The introduction of "Male" medusae and "male" dryads and the like is only being done in terms of the Art. The Medusae stat block doesn't have a separate male and female entry. The only difference being, the art entry for the Meduase Statblock shows a male and female Meduase.

The biggest thing about the 2025 Monster Manual, is that there's a new way of Calculating Challenge Rating which has led to the Monster being stronger overall.

One of the largest complaints about 5th edition, was Monsters being too weak, particularly at higher levels. As has been revealed, the way CR was calculated in the 2014 edition, was the maximum output a monster was capable of, if everything was in their favor.

This has been changed, and in response as has been seen in the previews being released... Monsters in the 2024 edition have more "Bite" to them.

I love ya Pundit, but this really is a nothing burger.

Why would anyone expect there to be separate statblocks by sex?  Monsters with enough dimorphism to need separate stats for male and female are very rare.  And messing with the CRs is irrelevant when it comes to mucking around with the monsters by adding new sexes that they oughtn't have.

Quote from: easywolf32 on January 11, 2025, 12:01:24 PMIsn't it the marxist/commie plan to destroy the culture from within first, after they turn people into queers and dumb I mean......all these major franchises from star wars to everything are being destroyed on purpose...I don't think these companies can be that dumb to destroy themselves. I don't know people need to look into it.

You'd be appalled to learn just how abysmally stupid big companies are. And this is nothing new. Marketing is near always behind this and pushing whatever "trendy" thing with a zeal that would make cultists weep with respect.

And with each wave of this moral busybodying, marketing sooner or later latches onto it and pushes harder and harder.

Hey Bjorn, is that a male Medusa or a female one?
Don't know, let me look...

They probably want male and female versions of all these monsters so that they can make them player races in future supplements.