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    Wizards of the Coast launches official Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play show

    And how is that? I wouldn’t be able to tell which was which if there where no labelled landmarks.
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    Wizards of the Coast launches official Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play show

    In what way would you expect a town map in Sithicus to differ from a town map in the Forgotten Realms?
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    Innsmouth added as new Ravenloft Domain of Dread, bringing Lovecraft to D&D

    In Exploring Eberron, playing a sahuagin spy altered to appear as a surface species is presented as a player option.
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    Innsmouth added as new Ravenloft Domain of Dread, bringing Lovecraft to D&D

    Pretty much anything in D&D, from a goblin up, would be horrifying if encountered in the real world. But to a fantasy hero it’s just another day at the office (see Conan). You can horrify players with what the monsters (who might be human) have been doing though.
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    Innsmouth added as new Ravenloft Domain of Dread, bringing Lovecraft to D&D

    There is nothing paricularly horrifying about the genetic nature of Deep Ones. PC Tiefling: "So, your daddy was a fish person? My grandpa was Dagon - the real one who is a demon lord. Would you like to see my tail?" Sahuagin hybrids have appeared in D&D before, in Eberron for a start. And we...
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    Wizards of the Coast launches official Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play show

    Tell your printer to print in black and white, switch it to “draught mode” if you have it.
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    Innsmouth added as new Ravenloft Domain of Dread, bringing Lovecraft to D&D

    As has been stated several times already, Cthulhu is confirmed to be the dark lord. And a key point is the Innsmouth domain is much larger than the town of that name. It’s like Barovia in that respect. The domain includes a large island on which the town is situated at one end, and, in true...
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    D&D General (2024) Is it just me or has Unarmored Defense become really common, now?

    You didn't? I thought the whole subclass was based on this:
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    Wizards of the Coast launches official Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play show

    Colour it purple and no one will notice.
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    D&D General (2024) Is it just me or has Unarmored Defense become really common, now?

    Full plate has a 15 STR requirement. A dex build can dump stat strength, with all the initiative, stealth and ranged benefits that come with it. Also, I use dual scimitars now. Dual scimitars are cool.
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    Innsmouth added as new Ravenloft Domain of Dread, bringing Lovecraft to D&D

    D&D already has 3-4 variants on Deep Ones.
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    Wizards of the Coast launches official Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play show

    If you scale it so the houses are a sensible size, the footbridges become very wide.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page lists the book's contents

    These two are interesting, the only domain labelled slasher in VGR was Valachan, and occult detective stories was the Varge Agency (which I think was cool, but it wasn’t really fleshed out). I ran a slasher in the Carnival though, and I guess occult detectives might be found in Innsmouth.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page lists the book's contents

    Sithicus isn’t a new domain, it’s an old domain that wasn’t in VGR. Innsmouth is new - it has never been in any previous product. They are putting Soth front and centre in the marketing, and we have seen his page. He isn’t not going to be in the book, and therefore his domain is in too. The...
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    D&D General Unearthed Arcana presents another three villainous subclasses

    Rather than the Book of Vile Darkness it's the Book of Mildly Distasteful Twilight.
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