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Pets are a tragedy of the commons for players. My experience as a constant DM is that every player wishes he could have a cool pet or...

Looks good. For someone wanting just the setting stuff, it is a bit annoying that it is spread across two books. For instance, it seems...

If people don’t like the Krynn thing, I definitely won’t mention how I’m crossing PDKs with Fourth Wing to get super sexy young knights...

But one would expect the rules to be at least connected to the fiction. So when the characters are planning their attack, if one...

I see it like this: The Krynn thing is background detail. I can't see it ever coming up in my game. I actually like leaning into the...

Yeah, I think this gets lost in thinking about the change. It's the key driver to making them bigger players across Faerun. IMO FR...

And what did the book do with that potential? Anything interesting? Seems like not.

It makes a better joke.

Dragon pets in D&D are either disappointing or overpowered, fite me. I'm happy with a leader-style Fighter. The PDK's have been such...

The drakewarden is still there for those who wanted it.

@Remathilis you can still ride dragons, it just is not locked to one specific subclass and it can be a proper dragon instead of a...

This was always the case, even within Tyranny of Dragons.

I wanted to add one that I haven't seen mentioned here yet: The Waystop, which is AL-compliant but not part of any of the storylines (at...

I like my monster books with lots of descriptions, adventure hooks, and material that helps me put these monsters into the game. I think...

My favorite Monster book to date is Volo's. Expanding on some of the quintessential monster races, to make them way scarier! I...