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CR going with 5e for their new flagship show would be so bizarre considering all the work they’ve done in the past few years to go as independent as they can. They have their own streaming platform, their music publishing company, they have Darrington Press, and they have their brand new D&D...

Barbarian - Rage Fighter - Discipline / Focus Monk - Focus / Discipline Rogue - Guile / Cunning / Focus

If you go separately there’s a good chance that the GM goes in between the PCs, or just does it by spending Fear. Tag team rolls help guarantee a big hit in high stakes situations.

Party supplies could be a countdown that ticks down when the GM spends Fear to do so or when you rest. Something like that. Once you’re out of supplies you can no longer rest or maybe all the downtime actions give less. So something like only Tier number of Stress or HP with the corresponding...

@Seramus The simplest way to handle the NPC ally is to use up a GM turn or a Fear on the ally as they occupy an enemy or even a group of minions. So you could just narrate the ally engaging the enemy and thus the PCs are spared an attack. Maybe do it once per fight? Or you could even have a...

That’s true but D&D and Daggerheart both offer a heroic fantasy RPG and Daggerheart is very much inspired by 5e and D&D in general. They occupy the same category. Daggerheart is like 5e except it’s a little less wargamey and a bit more dramatic action. Critical Role’s flagship D&D show and a...

The cartoons aren't tied to the D&D IP though so there are no financial ties to Hasbro or WotC. You could just as well play Daggerheart games inspired by the cartoons. If Darrington Press / Critical Role do continue to use D&D more or less as their primary vehicle for their flagship show, it...

I love 4e but I think the comparisons drawn here are a bit stretched. Everyone gets a new ability every level but you don't even have to take the specializations from your class, they're optional. You could instead take more hit points or more boosts to your traits etc. It's not like everyone...

I think there's a pretty simple reason why they changed the marilith's art. All the demons in the new MM look bestial or monstrous. None of them have clearly human-like appearances. If the marilith looked more like a person, it wouldn't really match the theme they wanted for demons, from what I...

There's a much bigger inconsistency in the new marilith art that hasn't been addressed yet. The new marilith is depicted as dealing both Piercing and Slashing damage. However! The 2025 marilith can only deal Slashing damage, not Piercing (with their weapons).

Why did you just earlier say that yes, but you would have to replace your current ability? If you can indeed learn all of it, do long lived creatures in your D&D style campaign worlds learn all of that? So some elves for example would have abilities from all classes, possibly all subclass...

So can the fighter also learn both the evoker and the abjurer subclass features? What about necromancer and diviner as well? After all, people in the world learn those abilities, so you should be able to acquire them, right? What if you're an elf and you live for 600 years -- could you learn all...

If I'm an abjurer wizard in 5e 2014 and there's an evoker wizard in the party, can I learn the evoker wizard's Sculpt Spells, Potent Cantrip, Empowered Evocation, and Overchannel abilities? Can the evoker wizard learn my Arcane Ward, Projected Ward, Improved Abjuration, and Spell Resistance...

But they aren’t because you can easily have both a player character and other NPCs who are even better.

Why would it make less sense? Even the 2014 MM describes hobgoblins as incredibly martially oriented people who value martial prowess basically above anything else. Doesn't it make sense that they can use weapons particularly well since it's all they care about? In fact, wouldn't it make less...