08-20-2020, 04:51 PM
Monsters don't bother with skills. If a monster needs, and has the intelligence, to perform some action, it performs the action whether it has the relevant skill or not. Because it doesn't. Because monsters do not bother with skills. It's a monster and the GM has more important shit to do than waste time and energy keeping track of which hobgoblin has the tracking skill and which has observation and if this one can tie knots well or if that one has the culinary skills to perfectly slow roast a leg of lamb with garlic, thyme, rosemary, and dijon to an internal temperature of 130° and serve with a chilled watercress yogurt soup. All monsters can track and see and fight and even serve up gustatorial delights when such skills are necessary.
When monsters perform a skill, which they don't have, they roll "full" pools, so instead of some cumbersome notation like, "Brawn: 20 (d8), Stamina: 15 (4 dice)," we'll just use "Br/St: 4d8."
When monsters perform a skill, which they don't have, they roll "full" pools, so instead of some cumbersome notation like, "Brawn: 20 (d8), Stamina: 15 (4 dice)," we'll just use "Br/St: 4d8."
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