Wizards of the Coast's Jeremy Crawford and F. Wesley Schneider recently spoke to Todd Kenreck in a livestream about the upcoming D&D Monster Manual – the final core Dungeons & Dragons rule books expected to drop this year. When asked what's changed, Crawford replied, "Everything is new in some way." A bold claim, but one that they're backing up with some dramatic tweaks to monsters that will affect legendary creatures in particular.
In a previous interview, Crawford told us that the new D&D Monster Manual would include "a high-CR construct, a Colossus, that is a skyscraper tall", but how these beasts were going to change compared to previous D&D books mechanically was still a mystery. Now we understand that their deep re-tuning of legendary creatures might finally keep monsters with a high challenge rating feeling just the right level of terrifying.
