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Yeah, these don't seem worse than standard WizKids paint jobs to me. You're usually going to be seeing them from a distance on a table, not examining them under a magnifying glass, so the quality is generally good enough for me.

That NPC reference tables weren't always the standard was a mystery to me.

I am so happy with the reduction of "natural language" in Revised 5E. It drove me crazy whenever a DM would ask what a player's spell did and I'd have to sit through a recitation of the flavor text and an overly wordy description. That is perhaps my least favorite thing about 5E 2014. For...

I just didn't get it was because it was outside my price range for a D&D product.

In my experience the threat of death in 5E depends on if there is a healer (especially a cleric) to get someone back up when dying. My only TPK in running 5E so far happened on a session the Cleric player couldn't make, and the closest I came to a TPK otherwise happened when the healer was down...

Part of me is hoping the paucity of lore for aarakocra, azers, and bullywugs in the Monster Manual means it will be filled in by introducing them all as PC species for the revised edition. None of them seem like that much of a stretch for PC species.

Volo's and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes got most of its lore heavily errata'd and discontinued for sale, though. Part of the disappointment with the reduced amount of lore comes from it being removed and replaced with nothing.

So if this is a 5E-variant being put out by a subsidiary of WotC why isn't this game higher profile? This thread is the most I've ever seen about it.

When I play D&D I find that the amount of time I wait for my turn to come back up is most important to whether I enjoy a combat, so as both a player and DM I pride myself on resolving my turn as quickly as possible. To do that I've found that a custom user interface that puts all the needed...

I had compared and posted my impressions in another thread.

I liked using duergar because of their included lore, which was evocative enough to make me choose using them over anything else I might have chosen. I didn't add much new world building when using them in my campaign, mostly using what I had read in the Monster Manual and Mordenkainen's Tome of...

I spent some time going through the lore changes in the first chunk of the 2025 Monster Manual. From what I saw, the biggest losers in terms of lore between it and the previous Monster Manual were the aarakocra, azer, basilisk, bulette, bullywug, and centaur. Of these, all but the basilisk had...

I thought about using the mob rules in the last few sessions of my most recent campaign but decided against it because I felt using rules that weren't as intuitive for me would slow the game down more than just running monsters normally (I preroll damage for monsters, which is a major time...

I want more of the weirder elementals, like the rukarazyll, tojanida, Dark Sun's elemental beasts, and the various hybrid elementals from 4E.

I once had players fight an Aspect of Dagon that was really just a wastrilith. They are thematically appropriate and hit hard for their CR, almost leading to a TPK with four ghoul buddies in tow.