Recent content by rozgarth

OP, if you’re interested in more concrete steps to take during prep, I’d recommend So You Want to be a Game Master by Justin Alexander. The book walks through not only how to create and run a dungeon, but also mysteries, raids, heists, point/hex/urban crawls, and social events. There’s a...

What about species like duergar? They aren’t in the PHB, so you can’t just look at their traits and use them to modify the generic humanoid stat blocks even if you wanted to. That seems like a shame. They have very distinctive traits and abilities. It seems like for creatures like duergar, this...

Generally, I like the new glossary since I’m most likely to look up the rules in play or when prepping and just want a quick lookup. It would have been ideal to also describe the rules in the main body text, especially for first time learners and to minimize page flipping, though I get that they...

In addition to the articles on draconians and legendary items of Krynn (e.g., dragonlances, staff of Magius, etc.) in Dragon 421, there was also an article on tinker gnomes in Dragon 422.

So? That does not mean that @SlyFlourish did anything wrong. Fair use exists for criticism and review, and the flip through of very limited sections of this book (both quantitatively in terms of pages and qualitatively by avoiding the key character creation options entirely), was fair. This was...

This sounds like you’re blaming @SlyFlourish, which is kind of ridiculous. His review didn’t even discuss the classes or almost any spells, i.e., the vast majority of the book. He focused on the rules, less than 10% of the book, most of which are unchanged or already available to people through...

I’m a little surprised to see so many people in this thread defending what appears to be an objectively negative change for consumers. As some have mentioned, it’s pedantic to say that Beyond’s a la carte options were “microtransactions” because they were small dollar value purchases. A la...

Looking at it again, I agree the DriveThru page isn’t really clear. I hadn’t looked closely since I backed the Kickstarter, which clearly described the different books. I did a quick look on the Discord and it appears that Schwalb will be updating the back cover blurb to explicitly reference...

Secrets of the Weird Wizard (the GM and Monster book) is part of the same Kickstarter. It’s currently in layout and is expected to release in PDF in just a couple months.

I really enjoyed Art and Arcana, so was excited to pick up Lore and Legends. Overall, I was disappointed. It felt more like I was reading a product catalog put out by WotC than a history of 5th edition told through its artwork. There were parts that triggered nostalgia, like reading back to...

I’m sorry if I’ve missed it somewhere in this thread, but a couple of posters have mentioned that the GPL 2.0 has been held to be irrevocable despite saying only that it was perpetual. Does anyone know what case(s) decided this issue?

The D&D reference is the poster of the cover of the 5e Player’s Handbook hanging on the wall in the background of the apartment where Kate is trying on her “Viking” costume and where Clint comes to pick up the trick arrows.

Yeah, I’m a little surprised by a lot of the initial reactions in this thread. I thought this trailer (and the first trailer for the movie last year) looks amazing. I’m very excited for a new Batman disconnected from the DCEU and will probably go opening weekend.

There are already threads here discussing the metallic dragonborn, drakewarden, and moonstone dragon too.

If I were to recommend the fewest number of books for someone new to 4e to play, I’d recommend the Monster Vault for your monster book and the Dungeon Master’s Kit for your dungeon master’s guide. These are both products from the essentials line, and as such, they incorporate all of the updated...