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Reminder that Mordenkainen, who appears in Curse of Strahd, was in a state where he had a grown out beard and hair in that adventure because he was mind blanking himself to avoid Strahd learning about Oreth after he lost a fight with him. So this is likely Mordenkainen in his “Mad Mage of...

Wizards of the Coast posted a graphic on social media that may confirm what’s in store for D&D in 2026. The picture was accompanied by the following text: “Thank you for another incredible year of stories and shared adventures. Happy Holidays from the D&D team, we can’t wait to show you what...

The Hunter and Beast Master don’t get extended spells because of the whole “spellless Ranger” crowd. In the lead up to the 2024 PHB, Crawford said those subclasses are meant to represent Rangers that are less focused on spells.

They likely are going back to the older 5e announcement pattern, aka announcing a book two months before it drops and not a year in advance.

He handles the rules design, not the marketing or production of products once they are past the design step. Not being able to answer if more class boards get produced or about Demo set ups in game stores is understandable since those decisions are not up to him.

Still think it makes things too easy in Dungeon Crawls. We have too many spells that neutralize dungeons as is; we do not need more. "Detect Traps" would be a better name.

Maybe a hot take: Find Traps should not find traps. It completely trivializes one of the best parts of dungeon crawls. It is perfectly fine as it is, mechanically. Its worst offense is its name, not its actual mechanics.

The new Beyond Homepage is live. It will take some getting used to for me but I’m glad they seem to be separating things into neater categories.

You really don’t, since the spellcasters now have a base attack that keeps them at the minimum damage threshold for their CR. Just Arcane Burst or whatever it is during your other fights (also, almost no tables run 8 fights in an adventuring day).

It is basically only for 2024, with the meet of the content being the 2024 Artificer, Dragonmarks as Backgrounds (which are very different than in 2014), 2024 versions of the Eberron species, and Bastion options (which aren’t in 2014).

I mean, it’s usable still. But the bigger problem is their power level. Any stat blocks using spell slots for casters was designed before WotC shifted their math and gave monsters the bump they needed to meet their CR, especially at higher levels. I’ve run a level 20 fight against one of the...

You really don’t. They have X/day uses, same as any full caster with their spell slots. If they are going to be around later, just recharge their uses the next day. Not that hard.

I disagree with this. The monsters absolutely need an update. The best way to tell what monsters are leaning into the 2024 designs is to look at Spellcasting. And in Rising, almost all of the spellcasters still use the Spell Slot method. It’s clunky and clumsy and bad monster design.

I’ve run the entire Oracle of War campaign for my players, 1-20, and we had a blast.