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A lot of DCC adventures can be run with little to no prep. I'm often amazed at what a joy they are to run and how easily they flow.

Primal wasn't a thing in the original 4e PHB, so they were martials. But in later books, when they introduced other power sources and revisited classes, the ranger got primal options.

Slight correction, Wildborn are 1/3 casters.

Honestly Level Up A5E almost swings the divide the other way, which is saying something. In most encounters levels 5-10, I am more worried about what the fighter or berserker can do than what spells the casters can bring to bear 😅 It's only in tier 3 that the casters start to gain a bit of...

Presentation matters; it's part of design. You could be an outlier, or not- lots of folk will say "just give me the text, it doesn't have to be pretty!" buuut that tends not to be the reality, despite what they think they want. Ofc AI art can translate a vibe just fine, which is often what...

I'd rather have sketch art than AI. I don't know how much weight one (or a dozen) voices should have here, over however many folks you get from social media etc, but I really avoid AI art stuff in products when possible. I've said the same to a couple patreon mapmakers that have used midjourney...

There are a lot of indie TTRPG products that make use of public domain art- the good ones curate their choices to make the colors and/or styles fit one-another well.

The physical versions are very nice! I was impressed with the build quality for such large TTRPG books. Good binding and yeah, fancy ribbons :'D

You might've missed them cuz they were under "tests;" they're in the 2024 and 2025 player PDFs.

My initial answer was "no," since full redos seem quite unnecessary. However after a moment I realized that that's sort of what errata can be for.

I'll note, btw, that Level Up A5E solves this for me. It handles Massive Damage as such:

I didn't pull a punch that I really wish I had. New player, new to DnD, this was ~8yrs ago. We spent an hour making his character, dragonborn sorcerer. First scene, dead horse in the road, 4 PCs, 2 goblins attack them. Goblin shoots an arrow, crits for max, instakills the sorcerer. I never...

They've released like... 10 or 12 versions of the core book, each time I think little somethings are changed? Or maybe it's just reorganization? But I assume you mean like, a full DCC 2e?

Re: the possibility of missing, you can also crit... and, more importantly, there are lots of ways to get advantage/bonuses on the attack- if you're upcasting, it's worth it. Advantage, or using inspiration to make sure you hit.