Recent content by Amphytrion

Not to be pedantic, but it is actually 3 extra pages. We see pages 100 & 99, in that order (differently than what they’ll appear in the book). Remaining are 101, 102, & 103. As MonsterEnvy pointed out, the Contents page posted on the other thread show that all 10 dragons receive 4-5 pages of...

I didn’t care for Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel much at all, and didn’t resonate with the Godsbreath either, so I’m not particularly excited about this piece of news. I’m happy for those around who did seem to like it, though. Hope you enjoy revisiting the setting. I generally love...

Something is indeed clearly going on. It is possible that Crawford and Perkins were both offered early retirement as part of the company-wide policy Mearls mentioned as being recently instituted. That being said, I don’t think they’d have taken it if the situation as-is was sustainable. Anyone...

I have plenty of FR material, but I’m not the target audience for tie-ins, neither are any of us in this forum. The value of the tie-in is to capture someone who is not usually a customer via the associated property. When BG3 came out, the FR subreddit was awash with waves of newcomers everyday...

Descent Into Avernus is part of the Mearls era of D&D, I think, and thus not encapsulated in my comment. It is a fine idea for a tie-in for early access, even if the final product is hamstrung. The Nine Hells angle was clearly meant to be more important early on in BG3's development. The...

Sure? Against my better judgment, I shall assume good faith from you in this response: Our categories aren't different. They're the same: all subtypes of a larger monster type. They all divide monster statblocks, rather than books or animals. Your example refers to two categories of entirely...

I use this a lot in my campaigns. For my latest Waterdeep game, the clergy of Lathander is split down the middle regarding beliefs about his origins: Those who believe him to be reincarnated Aumanator, old Netherese god of the sun, keeper of time, and master of law. This faction would like to...

I don't think they are materially different. They both belong to a family of monsters that are a subcategory of monster type. I also don't think the organization is internally coherent. Sometimes, the alphabetization takes precedence; other times, the category takes precedence. See dragons and...

I'm with those who think the Mearls era of D&D was much better - I enjoyed the releases far more back then. There are multiple reasons for this: I think the adventures were more interesting. Curse of Strahd, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Tomb of Anhilation, etc. The adventures in Winniger era have...

Oof, I think I’ve never disliked a pair of WotC covers so much in the 10 years of 5th edition. I can see what Jones was going for, even if I don’t like where it landed, but the Staples cover I just find baffling. Surprised that there are some here who seem to like it, and glad for them.

This organization choice is so absurd that I’m at a loss at how it was made. What would possess WotC to do this? The only option I can see is that WotC were thinking first and foremost of DMs buying premade adventures rather than DMs creating their own, but even then, I think it helps very...

Surprised that the Aboleth did not receive a higher-CR variant, as that is one of the most popular additions I see in other monster manuals. Brief correction: the Aboleth did have a reform ability in the 2014 Monster Manual, but it was in the text, not in the statblock. (This was common for all...

I think that this is a constant debate because Chaotic and Lawful have changed definitions through editions, and the 5e wording can often be inadequate in retrospect. We often have to rely on our own judgment to resolve alignment, which makes things murky. For example, we know from the 2014 MMs...

Is your line of reasoning truly “Why should guidance for X be included in the new DMG, when it’s in the 2014 one?” The new DMG isn’t a companion piece to its 2014 version. It intends to update and replace it. Like most things in the DMG, variants are part of a toolbox that help the DM to run...

This is not what Micah was referring to. Yes, all rules are subject to the DM’s overrule. Nonetheless, some rules were not part of the assumed shared ruleset of the game, they were variants that provided alternatives to the baseline guidance in order to achieve a certain effect. These rules...