when you’re talking about D&D monsters
it’s important to realize that they’re
more than just their challenge rating
I talked to Adam Lee about some of his
favorite monsters about–we likes most
about how you have to approach them I
mean I love frog hema like Frankenmuth
is super awesome it’s just this total
freak and Terry being the ugliest
monster may be the ugliest monster I
love things from the Fein folio I mean
there’s the thought eater is just this
weird
bizarro creature and I like things that
are that that are kind of funny like
from the funny early days of D&D where
things were just bizarre and and strange
and I don’t know you wouldn’t even think
that there are actually monster like but
they are we put a lot of them into my
violation some of these you know
monsters that were you know you’d rather
rarely see I mean I love the the mythic
monsters as well you know the monsters
like a sphinx like a sphinx is a great
monster I you’ve got to deal with it in
a different kind of way that you would
another you know most people think Oh
monster I’m gonna go hit with my sword
and I like monsters that you’ve got to
deal with this thing a different way
you’ve got to use your your intelligence
to get through or you’ve got to use your
wisdom or you’ve got to use your ability
to invent some kind of a unique way to
bypass it you’ve got to roll play it
your way through it
dragons you know course dragons are
amazing and but I liked again I like to
use them in a different way they’re not
just these giant flying flamethrowers
you know they’re just destroy and wreak
crap
the dragons are intelligent and I mean
most of them and you know to be able to
actually find a way like okay you know
how do I deal with this thing of what
does a dragon want and what do dragons
represent and I like monsters that like
kind of like a norovirus thing it makes
you think about what this monster
represents in in sort of a you know in a
mythic sense I mean one of our story
meetings I was talking about the Fae
wild and that things in the fav realms
are actually sort of manifestations of
emotions like anger is is will manifest
as a monster in the fable
and so a monster will sort of embody
this anger or jealousy will it will
manifest as a monster so I like monsters
representing sort of ourselves you know
they’re they’re facets of who we are I
mean really when we were inventing
monsters is you know early you know
primates certainly whatever we did it we
were creating sort of these these facets
of ourselves and like embodiments of our
fears or embodiments of our doubts or
whatever and you know I love I love it
when a monster takes on that role
instead of just like I’m just gonna hit
up a hammer something that is is you
know out there and it’s freaky or makes
you think about something deeper than
you know just sort of solving it
physically
Another interview session with Master Kenreck. https://t.co/5JIKASd7PY— Adam Lee (@adamofadventure) August 28, 2017