Try me, metafucker
Try me, metafucker
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I haven't played much dnd, do people expect stat blocks to be fixed? Like, is meta knowledge such a part of the game that its a dick move for gm to change it?
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It is expected that the gm will tweak things here and there for whatever reason, its part of their job. Its considered a major faux pas for a player to look at the statblocks of monsters you are fighting.
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Meta kills some kinds of fun and, for lack of a better term, can be like topping from the bottom. If you're trying to keep it out of your game with this method, your group is dysfunctional either because there are misaligned goals or the gm and players are in a pissing contest.
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Im not really asking from a power-dynamics standpoint, more as a narrative tool. As a gm I change the world to make what I see as a better story (no cheating necessary I'm literally the universe).
Like, if the players do an ambush of BBE and (according to the rules) one-shot 'em, he'd have a shielding amulet leaving him heavily maimed but alive. Not cause how dare you kill my beautiful npc, it's just kinda anticlimactic otherwise. (Unless the ambush was a huge challenge in itself. Then we're good, murder away)
But maybe dnd crowd agrees that stat blocks are implicit part of the game and changing them is cheating idk
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Some people do, but I would say it's one of those things where you hear about it disproportionately often compared to how frequently it actually happens, since people are much more likely to write about negative experiences
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Within the same campaign? Yes, I expect the statblock to be (reasonably) fixed.
But from one campaign to the next? Not necessarily, unless they're explicitly set in the same setting.
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I'm glad I don't play with people like this.
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“Look like this is a rare variant or mutation that can”
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My old DM said explicitly if he told us the monster's name in the MM he expected us to know it's stats, if he didn't then statblocks would be unreliable.
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The greatest enemy ever created is the albino red dragon. Everyone minmaxes in the wrong direction for that guy.
How so?
They expect a white dragon with ice breath?