Sometimes, there’s a bugbear in a dungeon. And that bugbear is just one monster among many, a foe to battle or perhaps an NPC to interact with. It all depends on your approach. (1/4)
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 28, 2018
And sometimes, that bugbear becomes the center of establishing new D&D canon. In this case, what happens if you cut a dead character’s face off, replace it with a sliced off face of a bugbear, then cast raise dead on the character? (2/4)
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 28, 2018
The answer is that the character comes back to life, face intact, with a bugbear face sewn over their own. (3/4)
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 28, 2018
And this is what went down when I DMed for @JamesPurdum2 @JodyPSchaeffer1 @GeorgeKrstic @chrisprynoski and @RyanVerniere Slaying monsters and establishing D&D canon, a fitting way to spend #GygaxDay (4/4)
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 28, 2018