The REAL reason that Flee Mortals! is such a great monster book… that no one is talking about.

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4 ай бұрын

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@o_double_t_o 4 ай бұрын

It's companion book, Where Evil Lives, is also fantastic. My play group ran the level 3 adventure off the rails which was a delight!

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Yeah it looks like a good product

@AaronCole 4 ай бұрын

A Beholder with the serial numbers filed off. That's hilarious.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

😅

@jordanwhite8718 6 күн бұрын

I feel like the thing with legendary resistances is that the DM was never supposed to tell players that it used its legendary resistance. At least I never tell my players that that’s what the monster does. That way the monster seems genuinely intimidating rather than the DM is just giving you a swift kick to the nuts.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 6 күн бұрын

Good idea. I usually roll in the open, so my players usually know what I need to roll to make the save. So it wouldn't work at my table, but I do think it's a good idea.

@MilieuGames 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing out the issue most monster compendiums have. In my opinion, the majority of things written for 5e are done in a reference manual sort of way, rather than an instruction manual manner. This means the reader is expected to know and understand the material already. Which is...problematic.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

That's an interesting way of looking at it. I've been playing for over 40 years, so it's pretty hard to see things through the eyes of someone unfamiliar with the material.

@webslinger325 3 ай бұрын

Ive never used challenge ratings from the books, i have tables to scale any monster, i only get these books for lore, tactics and cool abilities.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 3 ай бұрын

Sounds pretty slick.

@_Irrelevant 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! Sounds really cool.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

@shamuswilliams 3 ай бұрын

All right, I think you convinced me. I didn't back it initially for two reasons. First, because I have no problem creating or modifying monsters on my own. Second, because most monster books I've seen go out of their way to use unusual mechanics, odd names, and other quirks to make their monsters different and, perhaps, memorable. However, those traits make the monsters difficult to remember and run at the table, as you mentioned. If Flee Mortals avoids that pitfall, I'm on board.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 3 ай бұрын

😁 I hope it works for you as well as it has been working for me.

@hobbsoats2666 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the look-thru! Have you seen/heard of the A5e Monstrous Menagerie? That and the MCDM Flee, Mortal! book are the two books touted as replacements for the Monster Manual right now, before the Tales of the Valiant Bestiary and the Monster Manual 2024 books come out. I love both pretty equally, for different reasons.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 2 ай бұрын

I've heard of those but haven't seen either.

@theokogod6711 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing this out. Easy readability is huge for me when using any TTRPG supplement

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Same here! 😎

@utubebgay 4 ай бұрын

The book looks pretty great. That said, I don't really follow some of your reasoning. I thought the whole point of having the books in the first place was so that you didn't necessarily have to memorize everything. As for implementing monsters that are right for a given location, I generally think of that as a normal part of prep work - a little forethought about what environments the PCs are likely to visit will allow one to mentally or physically earmark creatures that work. That said, there is no substitute for learning to improvise, and anyway, having to consult a book once in a great while isn't the end of the world.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Admittedly, my reasoning is pretty subjective to the way I prep adventures and the way I think. 💁‍♂️

@user-pc5ww8fh6d 2 ай бұрын

It's very pretty and colourful. Can't even compare though with The Monster Overhaul though.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 Ай бұрын

I haven't checked that out yet. What do you like about it?

@user-pc5ww8fh6d Ай бұрын

Monster Overhaul is not 'pretty', there is no colour, no pages of just art, no wasted page space, everything is efficient use of space. There is likely 3 times the content per page than is the norm. It is magnificently organized. It delivers 3 times as much as I expected.@@henchmansmemoirs1487

@connors7078 4 ай бұрын

The Monster Manual Expanded books are amazing for this too.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Really? I need to check those out then.

@JasonHauser125 4 ай бұрын

@@henchmansmemoirs1487 All three of them are pretty awesome.

@qsviewsrpgs4571 4 ай бұрын

I'm never had any trouble implementing creatures, monsters, etc. into a campaign. With that said, I don't own Flee, Mortals and I would like to pick that up someday. Thank you for the insightful comparisons, they do help a lot.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Yeah check it out for sure. I think it's great to work in monsters from other sources, but I usually am trying to Lazy DM everything and do a minimum of prep.

@qsviewsrpgs4571 4 ай бұрын

I've been there myself for sure. Sometimes, most times, it's all some have the time for.@@henchmansmemoirs1487

@wbbartlett 3 ай бұрын

Shiny, glossy pages that reflect 90% of light - check. Cartoony, childish art - check. Stat blocks that take up twice as much room as descriptions - check. Yep, this is for 5e & only 5e. Pages probably fall out after a few openings too :D

@henchmansmemoirs1487 3 ай бұрын

I mean... it's definitely for 5e.

@MedievalFantasyTV 2 ай бұрын

Spot on.

@dmeep 3 ай бұрын

so where should i go looking for a darkest dungeon monster manual since i got the boardgame kickstarter and want to use the models in ttrpg?

@henchmansmemoirs1487 3 ай бұрын

dm-tuz.tumblr.com/

@dmeep 3 ай бұрын

@@henchmansmemoirs1487 a gentleman and a scholar, cheers

@mtmroc 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting. I’d love to see more about those other books too. I’ve heard nothing but bad things about Dark Souls 5e, so it would be interesting to hear something good.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

I'm using the Dark Souls 5e monsters in my Dark Souls of Drakkenheim campaign and they are working pretty good. But overall, I can't really recommend the book as a whole. 🙁

@MonsterPainter 4 ай бұрын

Love monsters and books about monsters. Fun video.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jeromeace1282 2 ай бұрын

One consideration that probably escapes you because of your experience, is that the monsters are actually layed out in a pretty useful manner. For the pre existing monsters, they're organized into factions, with war beasts and all built in to work as a seamless whole. And the original monsters that don't have that association (like the stone eating bug swarm) are instead tied to environments.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 2 ай бұрын

I agree; I love the layout and organization. I do with it had an index, though; sometimes finding some of those extra monsters can be tough.

@MemphiStig 4 ай бұрын

This seems to me like the beefed-up follow-up to The Monsters Know What They're Doing. Which is cool. I am a little disappointed by the price, but then, that's everything these days, I guess. (Today was shopping day, so I'm still feeling a little abused.) I know for sure tho that MCDM does great work.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

I really like The Monsters Know What They're Doing.

@Tharukan 4 ай бұрын

Problem is I think 5e just is not very good as a system or at least not at all what I want from an RPG, so even the best 5e products (that are not done by WOTC) still won't do the trick. I think we should stop fixing 5e with 3rd party products and just start using better systems.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Fair enough. Where I live in Middle Tennessee, the only players I can find are 5e players. So I'm just trying to find the best 5e content I can.

@Khobai 4 ай бұрын

everyone plays D&D though they dont play third party system thats why its better to fix the game people actually play

@katahdin5300 4 ай бұрын

Been playing Fantasy Hero since 1999 when I switch from 1st and 2nd edition AD&D. Every player I introduced it to loves it. A wonderful skill-based system with no levels or hit points that rise too high to be believable even in a fantasy game. I tried 5th edition and....well.....no. Did not care for it. To each their own though as long as you enjoy it.

@pewprofessional3181 4 ай бұрын

TSR D&D is still highly playable and easy to learn, and is by no means obsolete. Left 5e after discovering TSR D&D. I can see why TSR era editions are what made D&D amazing, not WOTCs editions. They should have stuck with card games. I'll have to check out Fantasy Hero.

@jeremytitus9519 4 ай бұрын

@@Khobainah bro. People have been saying that about DND for_decades,_ and all that has made for is new editions of a crap system and the proliferation of ten thousand different incompatible homebrew abominations. Use a system that works out of the box, because it’s well made, and actually does the thing that you want it to do.

@zenymax8348 4 ай бұрын

Well I'm not familiar with a lot of those monsters either, I'm still quite new (eventhough I'm also already slowly leaving DnD behind). If they have cooler abilities I can be convinced but I would have needed a few examples. When you are new, is flee mortals more complete and rich than the other supplements ?

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

I didn't mention it in the video, but a big part of the attraction of the book is that it's got new abilities for monsters we've been using since Fifth Edition came out. If you're new, I would probably recommend sticking with the Monster Manual. 👍

@ArtClubSuperstar 4 ай бұрын

Would have appreciated a deeper look at a couple of good entries. I still don't understand what all the fuss is about.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

You're right, I could have covered that. I've just seen so many reviews on KZbin that kind of went into the other selling points of the book.

@B00Radl33 4 ай бұрын

What I'm hearing is to include preferred terrain, and and combat styles.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

I'm not sure.

@darkairlord 3 ай бұрын

The whole point of the other books us because you want new unique monsters.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 3 ай бұрын

If that's your focus, then there are a lot of great monster books out there. 👍

@Zr0din 4 ай бұрын

I think I see your point. So let's check... There is a Medusa in MM at CR 6 and the normal Medusa in Flee Mortals is also CR 6 Controller. Didn't notice that until now! Thanks.

@henchmansmemoirs1487 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is why I ended up selling my Tome of Beasts -- I wasn't finding chances to actually use those monsters.