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I am seriously liking just about everything in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. With the sole exception of the opening up of the Bladesinger to all races, I am loving all of it. (Seriously, I will not stop harping on this change; I can totally understand the desire to have a Melee Wizard...

Great stuff! Celtic mythology can be pretty crazy; for example, the descriptions of the Warp Spasm sound nightmarish. I used Celtic mythology to name my current main PC, a 9th level Half-Elven Bard of the College of Swords named Taliesin, and his father Gwydion (two legendary Celtic Bards.)...

Unfortunately I have never liked any of the movie versions of Grendel's Mother. They have all seemed either underdone, or extremely gaudy and over-done. The Angelina Jolie version was particularly gross, and just incredibly tacky in my opinion (not to mention those awful Scorpion King levels...

Nice! Grendel's Mother is endlessly fascinating, especially the debate about just what the heck the word aglæcwif means. I personally believe that Grendel's Mother was actually a Dis, one of the Disir ("The Ladies", perhaps one who has descended into madness) who were essentially the earlier...

Ugh, I can't stand that crap. It feels like the entire Dwarven race has devolved into beer-swilling, pseudo-Scottish, Chaotic Neutral Barbarians. And I hate it. I also think part of the reason is because of the diversification and break down of media into tiny little pockets and bubbles of...

Our gaming group actually considers the fact that Tasha's Cauldron is introducing game mechanics for Patrons to be incredibly funny, seeing as how party patrons have been an integral element of our campaigns for years, especially those of my younger brother ever since he started DMing for us a...

I just got an email update from Amazon last night saying that I should be receiving my pre-ordered copies on the 17th. I would happily have bought them from my local FLGS... but I don't have an FLGS. I don't even have a bookstore within a 45 minute drive of me, damn BFE Central Pennsylvania...

Oh yeah, Grells are great!

That's actually a retcon I really dislike. Orcs were originally Lawful Evil and the same size as Elves, and Half-Orcs were the same size as Half-Elves (just look at the the height/weight charts in the 1E DMG and the size comparison illustration in the 1E PHB) not at all the gigantic hulking...

Gibbering Mouthers are awesome mini-Shoggoths. I also love Hobgoblins, even if they aren't at all rarely seen, and their special animosity with Elves is a great point of interest; as per the 1E MM they will actually break and attack Elves in preference for any other enemy because of their...

I am always confused by this claim; I never saw any of the kinds of problems with power in The Complete Book of Elves that other people claimed to find in it. I think the biggest problem that many people had with it, and with the Bladesinger in particular, was that they misunderstood how the...

I think it was a huge mistake to even allow Half-Elves to suddenly be Bladesingers (which was very explicitly not allowed in the original idea.) :( I do not like huge retcons like this. I'm not trying to dictate to others what to allow at their table; unfortunately, this alteration is trying...

Heavy Armor Mastery is a tremendous Feat for low-level PCs to have. We currently have a 4th level Paladin in one of our parties who has rolled a 3 and a 1 for Hit Points over the past two levels, and his taking of that Feat at 1st level is one of the only things that has allowed him to...

And that's an absolutely good and thing! For your world. But retconning the lore of the Bladesinger as being something open to all races by default, rather than the special racial champions of the Elves, means that some players will come to the table expecting to be able to play, say, a...

We give every PC a bonus Feat starting at 1st level (the Variant Human is changed to give +1 to 5 ability scores and one extra skill proficiency.) In compensation, every monster is given the Tough Feat. We have had no problems resulting from this change.

So... people have been saying that they are changing the number of times that Bladesingers can use the Bladesong each day because there was a "problem" with some players using the Bladesong just to increase their AC and Concentration check bonus for them just to cast spells, rather than wading...

I absolutely love Bladesingers. I played my first Bladesinger PC back in '93 using the original 2nd Edition Fighter/Mage Kit, a Grey Elf from Celene in a Greyhawk campaign (I hate this modern assumption that Bladesingers are a specialty 'Realmsian thing; the CBoE was a general D&D sourcebook)...

There was never anything that said Rangers couldn't track or do "woodsy" stuff in heavy armor. My greatest character was a 1e Ranger named Malachi. I took him from 1st to 26th level, starting out at 25 years old and playing him until he was 98 years old over the course of a real decade. He...

1st Edition AD&D: Rangers are a sub-class of fighter who are adept at woodcraft, tracking, scouting, and infiltration and spying. Heavily armed and armored magical commandos. 1E Rangers didn't get Druid spells because they worshiped nature, they learned them as a practical matter because they...

They look fine to me. I'm actually not all that into dragons (ironic for a D&D player, I suppose... ) but they look interesting and seem fine mechanically.