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I wish I found the default cover inspiring but it just reminds me of generic fantasy posters you can find at Walmart.

The Humanoid type is defined as "people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates, and warriors. They include members of varied species" and beyond that there's no real mention of species, even in the individual sections for scout, cultist, etc. Nor do the DMG sections on...

It's still the CR 8 t-rex.

You could make the same argument about devils and demons, and even angels and some other large groupings of extraplanar creatures, as they're mostly defined in the DMG and MM in the context of some of the planes and never on their own (yugoloths for example are mentioned in Gehenna: "Gehenna is...

Got my early copy today. I did a quick go-over but what stuck out: The entries for certain humanoid species (e.g. Orcs, drow) have been removed. Many other humanoid enemies (aarakocra, goblin/hobgoblins/bugbears, kobolds, etc.) have had their types changed. This has left some weird stuff like...

I still feel like 5e only succeeded in spite of Mearls and the general trend under his watch for WotC to only put out half-assed adaptations of things written decades previously along with what felt like corporate-enforced MtG settings no one wanted. Plus the way he behaved around the Zak S...

Even in the 3.5e times Sunless was a bit of a slog for 1st level characters, with too many giant rats and goblins to face head-on to not be killed or forced to retreat. Not to mention you can run into a white dragon wyrmling? young white dragon? whose breath weapon can easily kill full HP...

New Eberron material, out the week before my birthday? What a dream!

I would kill for some of the iconic Eberron adventures to be reprinted and adapted. Steel Shadows (by Keith Baker) is an excellent little murder-mystery for 7th level chars that shows the underbelly of Sharn but was only available in Dungeon mag (#115). Plus there's the Forgotten Forge/Shadows...

Page 10, Tool Proficiency. "In addition, when you craft a magic Wand, the amount of time required to craft it is halved." Each of the subclasses gets one type of magic item they can craft more quickly, and all artificers can quickly produce mundane equipment with Magical Tinkering

Okay followup, enspelled armor and weapon is actually hilarious as an option with multiclassing. If you dip into wizard you can replicate Enspelled Weapon to create a weapon that allows the wielder to cast find familiar... which you could then spend a day passing around to each party member...

What I like: magical tinkering is now a mundane utility belt option (very much helped by adventuring gear being given actual mechanics in the PHB) homunculus is a class-unique spell that you don't have to waste precious infusion slots on the not-that-useful unique infusions becoming generic...

Language and tool training is already in the 2014 DMG and XGE downtime rules, which aren't really replaced by these rules. It does standardize and shorten the training time, and if it allows you to get skills then it's expanded in usefulness. XGE setting up training time as 50 - (5 x int mod)...

My experience is that people didn't know the 2014 background customization rules existed, because it was basically hidden in the layout as this narrow column of text in the PHB next to some art on the page before the actual backgrounds are listed. I've personally never had a game where I didn't...

Considering how little goes into homebrewing these backgrounds... I'm gonna just keep letting my players customize their own. I still think it's a huge loss for the system that characters are so restricted that way mechanically. It's simply not interesting and it doesn't serve that much of a...