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The Tattooed Warrior Monk effectively has one good set of tats: Crane, Crescent Moon, Volcano, and Displacer Beast. Every other option is strictly inferior.

Now I kind of want to play an 8 foot tall Goliath Rogue with min-maxed Stealth.

I do know that over on the Critical Role subreddit there are people saying that if their Campaign 4 were to use Daggerheart instead of D&D that they would not be interested in following it. Campaign 3 also lost a good bit of viewers and momentum versus how well-received the first two were, so CR...

From what I've seen of Daggerheart it looks more dissimilar from D&D 5E than D&D 4E does, and we know how that went...

For example, movement in Daggerheart looks kinda weird to me coming from D&D. If I understand correctly, the distance a character can move is only defined by the battle map and is not defined outside of battle, and in battle a character can either move up to 30 feet while taking an action or, if...

They seem like different enough games that the only way I see Daggerheart eclipsing D&D is if it turns out more people prefer a game like Daggerheart to D&D.

The good and bad thing about monsters in the MM2025 is that monsters get enough lore to fill page space after the statblock and illustration are accounted for. In the case of devils, many got more lore than MM2014 because there was more page space devoted to them. Barbed Devils go from minions...

I know it included several extra planets for the Spelljammer tie-in release, and I've always been curious if they were made-up entirely for the game or were based on cut content from the Spelljammer box set.

Can you provide some more details? I'm curious how this compares to Matt Mercer's take on it.

Tales of the Valiant has put out a preview for their own take on the Warlord, called the Vanguard: https://koboldpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ToV-Players-Guide-2-Preview-FINAL.pdf I'm pretty neutral on the magic banners, but most of the Stratagems are what I would expect from a Warlord...

Looks neat, though I guess the mechanics won't be terribly close to D&D proper.

I theory crafted a Warlord-like Fighter build a while back that heavily relies on the Knight of Solamnia background and Feats (it even includes some nonmagical healing), but a base class that had these things instead of needing DM permission to use a setting-specific background would be nice...

I like it, but as soon as I saw it cast spells I knew a large portion of the people who really want psionics would balk no matter what the rest of the class is like. It definitely seems way more focused than the Mystic, which has a huge and diverse grab bag of optional features that probably...

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.