Fierce and dominating, dragons can make characters in your D&D campaign.
Managing monsters as the Dungeon Master can be fun or daunting, depending on how prepared you are.
Thankfully, there are entire books that discuss monsters and the lore behind them.
Deciphering what each stat and block means can be tricky because they can have dozens of different abilities.
Thankfully,each monster stat block generally follows the same format.
While the first three are self-explanatory, theirnatural alignment can be used to dictate how you should roleplaythem.
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Another commonly used skill in this section is amonsters Passive Perception.
Challenge Rating is often used to determine how tough an encounteragainst your party will be.
This involves further calculation and is only commonly used by experienced Dungeon Masters.
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Monsters can be resistant or vulnerable to certain attacks.
Spellcasting is also treated as you would with Player Characters.
Actions Section
Finally, we havemonster attacks and abilities.
For each attack, you will see a Hit bonus and the range each attack can reach.
You will also see theDamage pop in and the amount of damagethat is done.
Some abilities will linger beyond a single round, such as area-of-effect abilities that lessen a players movement.
Be sure to monitor these abilities to ensure the monsters are fighting to their full potential.
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