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I disliked the early presentation, which seemed to focus on magipunk elements and urban adventure. However, I eventually realized it had...

I think there is no question that dire wolves are certainly in the top ten. Dire wolves, dire wolves everywhere. Every 2nd-5th level...

I just don't like the new goliaths. Pretty much all the old goliath lore is out the window, and ultimately, after three editions of...

This is 2025. We've been over the hills and back multiple times.

The binding. Mine disintegrated into just a bunch of loose pages in like a year.

It was actually good. Comeliness was a mistake. I don't think I ever met anyone who cared about Social Class. The only real negative I...

The lesson is very simple: when you are updating a beloved brand, it's important the new version not only be good in its own right, but...

There's a lot to be said for classicism. Honestly, the more D&D drifts from its original lore and aesthetics, the more I am inclined to...

I hated that. I have always liked alignment in the way it makes D&D a morally realistic universe, while not actually settling the...

1e and 2e used PC rules for NPCs. Even those MM elves were led by NPCs of higher character level. Up until 3e, NPC meant "a character...

Do you think 5e is amenable to writing up a chart to create NPCs of various CRs?

I don't expect PCs and NPCs to all have identical abilities, but I do expect PC classes to have some reflection in the game world. Like...

That's pretty close to how NPC mages were built, using the the original 5e books.

So what do y'all do when you need a CR 5 bard NPC?