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That just sounds like the perfect way to make a DM do too much work for little gain. The whole reason they moved away from a long list of spells is that it just makes it harder to find the optimal play from turn to turn.

In my experience, AC stacking makes a party unbalanced in their defenses, while the DM has to increase the challenge dramatically or be unable to threaten the AC-stacked PC. Yes, I am aware of saving throws and other stuff. Whatever the case, high AC characters become far too strong too easily...

Thanks for sharing the experience! I think we can all agree that giving PC's free range on choosing items will always break the game. It is one of my biggest disappointments that WotC didn't balance the game around PC's having magic items (or give more solid guidance), or balance item rarity...

pretty poor that this subclass doesn't have anything going on outside of combat that sets it apart from other rogues. The aura is the worst offender. Still, I really like the concept and I think if the teleport triggered on a creature becoming bloodied, the subclass would start coming together...

It really is. I homebrewed my own werewolves based on this. This kind of regeneration perfectly represents at the table how werewolfs are weak to silver in my opinion. The Loup Garou worked perfectly in my Curse of Strahd game.

There is no resistance to nonmagical damage anymore!

There's some more info on Yugoloths in the DMG24 chapter on Gahenna. As a more recent DM, the Yugoloth distinction by alignment is already a miss. I don't care about alignment as something to personify monsters with. Especially something as bland as "neutral evil". It's very easy to just ignore...

How does the beholder main eye cone work now?

Which is odd to me. How else do you say a book does well close after its release? We know a lot of 5e books kept selling well, the Player Handbook being a big one. Did we expect the news to say "Sold more than the 2014 PHB!"? I don't think anyone expected that.

Having run the Sunless Citadel with 3rd level 2024 NPC’s, that tracks. They would have had no trouble defeating double that. Recently I also tested 8 CR 1 lions vs 4 lvl 3 PC’s and it was a perfect high challenge fight. I wouldn’t use the DMG stats by CR, though. Old monsters are famous for...

I'd say it keeps it, but you can do whatever you want.

The Adult Black Dragon shared by The Gallant Goblin My maths tell me it deals an average of 135 damage per round, which is a 23 or about 20% damage increase. Not bad.

When I started DM’ing 5e, I used to alter each stat block to make them a certain race. That did not last long. In my experience, the effort wasn’t ever worth it. It was easier to look up a species’ features if I really wanted them. Now, I will miss the stat blocks just because of the...

One thing to keep in mind is that it should be easier to hit the intended CR now. It should be more clear which attacks to use and spells to cast, but also a lot of the resistance to nonmagical b/p/s damage has been removed for more HP. At my tables, PC's often had magic weapons, so even if the...

I don't give them the stat block. Instead I give them as much of the base monster lore as possible, plus setting and situation relevant information about the creature.

Sadly one of my players had to leave our campaign, and we would love a replacement! Important Details: System: Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (not using the 2024 revision yet) Time: Every Wednesday 19:00 to 22:00 GMT+1 VTT: Roll20 Voice & Video: Discord Player preference: Female, between 25 and...

What's stopping you? Just level them slower and instead hand out other rewards.

A "cap" of level 9 just doesn't even come up for me. Only the player characters get levels, NPC's just are as strong as I feel like they should be. Sometimes they have similar abilities to PC's, sometimes not. But yeah, those reasons work well!

The gross majority of plays doesn't play those meatgrinder starting levels. I don't think that's anywhere close to what regular 5e play looks like these days. In my own campaigns, I stretch or skip early levels to my liking. One thing that has significantly improved my verisimillitude is making...