Recent content by Marandahir

Vote with wallet. Trust but verify. If they try to pull a fast one on us, push back. But until then, why complain about the out of touch CEO seemingly being a bit more in-touch than he was initially?

Ah, so here's the full book expansion of Hold Back the Dead. They really had made it out to sound like the Red Wizards were getting their own full guild-season adventure module, and indeed they are! Just 2.5 years later than expected.

Curse of Strahd wasn't the fourth D&D 2014 book released after the core 3 rule books. It was the 4th Adventure's Guild Season and came out in Spring 2016 after Tyranny of Dragons in 2014, and both Elemental Evil and Rage of Demons in 2015. And SCAG in 2015, too (first big book of options for...

Warlock Knight or Dark Rider subclass? I'd love that.

This was needed, ever since they retired the D&D Webpage in an effort to consolidate eyes on D&D Beyond. D&D Beyond's home page especially had been transformed to be basically unnavigatable. This at least gives different jumping off points.

Ranger in some contenxts means a Mounted Archer. Given that only Small Sized Beastmaster Rangers (and Ranger 7th-14th level Smalli-sized Drakewardens, and all Drakewardens of at least 15th-level) can ride their Animal Companions as a Mount, I think there's major space for a Bow Knight/Cavalier...

I believe they're repurposing the Podlings to represent Kithkin (one of the iconic Lorwyn Kindred –– essentially the prototype for 2014's janky proportioned Halflings but MtG insists they're not Halflings and only uses that creature type for the D&D and Middle-earth sets). The Boggarts seem new...

I went to a college reunion this past summer where they hosted us overnight on campus, and the campus security protocols I had to jump through just to connect to the internet to make a business teams meeting was nightmarish. The functionality of D&D Beyond is directly correlated to the...

Not arguing with that. Just that it was a work-around. 4E past 2009 or so wasn't particularly well-balanced, and the philosophy on feats from 4E is very different from the philosophy on feats in 5E. -BUT- 5E has the optional non-class class features as a route to resolve this sort of...

Ravnica has gods. Ilharg the Raze-Boar is a deity worshipped by the Gruul Clans, though its essentially more of a Force of Nature than a Divine Hand – especially given that it's the Boar Gods Okkoto & Nago from Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke with the serial-numbers filed off. I could see an...

Yeah, I understand that this is because it was worse of a revenue issue than selling PDF versions of the books were in 3E and 4E. If people only buy the books piecemeal for the parts they want, they're essentially selling the big selling points of those books for a fraction of the cost, and...

4E found a solution around this flavor problem: Intraclass Feats, a sort of inside out Multiclass system. You could give up a bit of a subclass resource to access a bit of a differen't subclass's resource within your own class. So for example, a Protector (the 4E Player's Option: Heroes of the...

I mean it's amazing that we get the Basic Rules for free, perpetually, via the Creative Commons license. But yeah, Psions won't be free either. But I'm sorry that you're caught in this situtation, I wouldn't want to pay $20 for something I already have (if I'm not otherwise using the different...

Yes, but more like Eberron where the Gods may or may not exist, and I don't use the Alignment system for them. My setting has its own religions, and its deities have their own Domain portfolios, but unlike real world religions and mythologies, there's almost universe syncretisms across the...

Making a character with D&D Beyond is using the platform. There's no requirement that you buy an ongoing subscription. But if you want a digital book, you may need to buy a digital book. There's no necessity that you buy the physical book too (and they have bundled discounts to buy the physical...