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I would like to add that it seems that people are conflating two different concerns into NPCs should be built like PCs, and its causing...

Ooookay. Now my Distributor is saying that there is no WPN "Early Release" for it (in spite of them having it on their shelves) and they...

I'm not "in the US", but yes, AFAIK, those of us FLGSes with WPN status are supposed to get it today. Of course, here in Canada we also...

It sounds like a lot of folk here have fond memories of it, and my table never used it, so the best I can do is try to answer your...

I think I will be picking them up in about 14 hours. I will do an AMA when I can, later tomorrow.

Oh I was talking the old zines from 1e, stuff referenced in The Elusive Shift. I didn't have personal experience with them, I didn't...

Could be by design, And that's the intent- a DMG2 or ADMG. The genericized MM NPC thing seems to be designed with the intent of...

I personally think the "beginner friendly" aspect of the 2024 DMG is going to be a problem if they don't follow up with a "DMG 2" or...

Yeah I believe a lot of the classes released in the 1e-era etc were intended as NPC-only, but understandably players see something cool...

You've got it backwards. 1e introduced NPCs as just PC classes controlled by the DM. They rolled stats like PCs, had classes like PCs...

Are classed NPCs, like "a full on barbarian," statted or called for anywhere in 5e material?

Plenty of 5E NPCs are also classed, they even started adding it as a tag like (demon) or (titan). What a lot of us (I think) are wary...

This is basically what I ended up coming up with a system to do. Link: PC-like NPC chart It's on the DM's Guild, but PWYW and the...

Another import change for theoretical. 6E: they stop assuming their customers are idiots. It is okay if things are a little bit complicated.

Yeah, this is annoying. I often end up modifying NPC statblocks to make them more PC-like, and I do not love that the 5.5 design has...