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After thinking about this (and some other news) for a couple days I realize I have no idea what, if any, effect this will have on Hasbro or WotC. They're both way to big for me to predict. This is still very big news for Darrington Press, and I've mentally upgraded the odds of them being a...

Given Daggerheart’s “campaign theme” mechanism I think there’s some real potential for stuff like this, especially if the module adds new game features to really make it shine.

My other intuition is: no one only watches one kind of movie, or at least it's weird if you do. Most people will watch a superhero movie or a comedy or a Western or a horror flick... some will only watch 3/4 of those, but it's an odd thing to only watch one. Same goes here: people who normally...

If you're into OSR, then Daggerheart is not for you (near as I can tell). It's for the players who want drama to be the main thing and adventuring for context. But, in my experience, that's a very big chunk of new players. So Daggerheart could (and probably will) be a big deal. 13th Age is toast.

My current guess is the bean counters decided that licensing has much better bang-per-buck and so are cutting as much from trpg support as they can to focus on more profitable stuff.

Fair enough. My own first instinct is “why not?” and then trying to think of way it can be exploited and if those are really a problem.

Presumably it works like any other language in terms of availability, since it’s taken as a language. How widespread it is in any given setting is up to the worldbuilder and/or dm. Follow-up: can you use sign language for Verbal components?

One already filled by the dragonborn (and, to a lesser extent, dwarves). Not that overstuffing a niche has ever held WotC back.

That can be a chicken-egg situation, IME. As soon as a player wants to be a goliath, then the lore will be written and integrated, but until then there's a lot less motivation to do that. Most dms make a point of including humans, elves, dwarves, whatever's popular at the table, and whatever...

I've noticed that people who don't play in FR (such as myself) get annoyed when others assume that FR lore is official universal DnD lore and there applicable to all games. On the other hand, there's basically no lore for 2024-style goliaths, so you're not wrong to bring it up. (the 3.5 lore...

I was in a game with a similar rule. Then everyone bought scrolls if fund greater steed. Obviously you can just not let players get whatever scrolls they want, but you will need to watch out for exploits like that.

I’ve played several tier-4 games. We don’t really up the rate of magic item gain, since you probably already have a signature weapon/staff/whatever and alm your attunement slots filled. We’re more likely to upgrade an existing item to legendary power levels.

The only subclass I can think of that "doesn't work" is underpowered under the new rules: the Hexblade warlock, since the signature feature is now folded into Pact of the Blade. (Although that one's still an interesting pick because it gives proficiency with both medium armor and shields...

In my experience, there are three main reasons people multiclass: 1. career change 2. dip 3. hybrid A career change is when during the character's journey they find they want to follow a different path than the one they started with. When based mostly on rp this usually means a major shift in...

2014 rules: Prepare spells as though each class was entirely separate. As a 9th level arcane trickster, you know 3 cantrips and 6 leveled spells, which must be 1st or 2nd level, and 4 of those must be enchantment or illusion spells. The other two can be any school. Note that you can't change...