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Yes and I would say that it's likely that at the least, they're looking to give a slight bump to the current core book rate of new players over the next 10 years. It's the old 'new and improved' strategy of product marketing. Meanwhile, they also get an immediate ROI from existing players...

I'm also thinking the Assassain is likely out in the PHB. Would be cool if they added the one feature of that subclass that was actually solid to either the Soul Knife or to the rogue in general. Advantage against enemies that haven't taken a turn in combat would be a great QOL improvement for...

I let individual players choose, and they must stick with the choice through the campaign. Those who role get to count 1s as 2s.

Absolutely worth watching for the way the mood shifts at the table. Wonderful moment. Don't have a timestamp, but it's in the last 30-40 minutes of the episode. Go a little before, when the meta talk about a TPK begins.

Complete explanation (contains spoilers for all of CR C3 up to episode 91)

From the PHB How to Play The play of the Dungeons & Dragons game unfolds according to this basic pattern. The DM describes the environment. The DM tells the players where their adventurers are and what’s around them, presenting the basic scope of options that present themselves (how many doors...

Okay, now I really want a BG3 follow-up where your party get's pulled into the Eve of Ruin adventure. Edit: Since that is very unlikely, the next best thing would be for WotC to get the BG3 voice actors together for a liveplay stream of EoR playing their characters.

Had a near wipe on Honor Mode last night in the Creche. In the office with the two wolves, accidentally triggered combat and got wrecked round 1. Escaped with my OH Monk Tav with 1 HP after taking an invisibility potion and fleeing. Had to have Withers rez Astarian and Shadowheart, but...

I'd say it falls under the basic order of play, DM describes the scene, PC decides what action to take, DM describes the result, sometimes asking for a die roll if the results are uncertain. There was no uncertainty about the outcome of the PCs action, so Mercer didn't ask for a d20 roll. That...

Non specific C391 Spoiler

Exactly, and yet an artist will take the camera, and after spending time and effort with it, be able to take pictures that far exceed what a novice can. The same will be true with AI tools. In the hands of someone who has studied art history and worked with it and mastered the tool, it will...

Great photography requires skill, but an unskilled photographer who is also unskilled at painting can create a far better image using a camera than they can using paint. That's the argument. As for stealing someone's art, as I mentioned, the IP considerations around the issue are real, and...

I can see the same argument being made against the invention of the photographic camera in the 1800s. But there are even more artists today, because a tool is available that allows for a different type of art to be created, that is suited to a different talent set. People who value hand...

@talien great write up on your experience. I'm excited for the tools that AI will provide me in making my art (D&D adventures for my group) that help extend my capabilities as a DM to create a richer experience for my players. I also have little doubt that human's will continue to be...

For Grym I used the one down, 3 above technique. Technically cheese, though with how much I use a single scout in the playthru, I can just justify it as in character play. IE, that looks incredibly dangerous, Asterion, go check it out, we'll stay back here :) Edited to add And that's what I...