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This is the only preview of Daggerheart mechanics I've seen and I like it. Seems like classes are structured somewhat like Shadow of the Demon Lord, or some combo of SotDL and D&D. I wonder how it plays at the table.

It's not my house. I just bought it. Huge difference.

You know what I bet Crawford won't miss? Getting personally attacked by strangers on the internet.

Shadowdark

IIRC it was reported somewhere here on the forums that the upcoming Forgotten Realms campaign setting would have stat blocks for evil drow and orcs. Maybe we can all just chill and see what comes.

Sounds like it played as the encounter guidelines predicted. For 3 PCs of 5th level, a CR5 creature is just past Low difficulty and slightly into Moderate. Per the DMG: "As a rough guideline, a single monster generally presents a low-difficulty challenge for a party of four characters whose...

It saddens me to see the visionaries who created 5E (my favorite version of D&D) leave. Mearls, Perkins, and now Crawford. Being a creative lead in a large company like Hasbro isn't easy. I'm sure they've had their share of hard days. And most of them were at WotC for 15 years or longer. Even...

You can pick up the PDF of Shadow of the Demon Lord or Shadow of the Weird Wizard at a reasonable price. I dig it a lot. It's simpler and more flavorful than 5E...but not as simple as Shadowdark. Shadowdark is a bit too simple for my tastes. I want to like it more than I do.

I'll bite. On the player side, I'd modify 5E to be more like Shadow of the Demon Lord. What does that mean? All subclasses would grant abilities at the same level. That opens up design space to have subclasses that work across every class, such as species-based subclasses, organizational-based...

Chris Perkins is an amazing adventure designer. Wishing him all the best.

On a lark I recently bought myself the Book of Many Things. It's weird, wonderful, and utterly unlike any other book in 5E. Does anyone else here have it? What do you think of it?

I hate this spell almost as much as rope trick.

Interesting thread. Winninger's tenure included some real gems--Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Book of Many Things, Keys from the Golden Vault, etc. These are quirky, inventive, delightful books. But it struggled to deliver old school, meat-and-potatoes core D&D. Sometimes you want the classic...

In a campaign setting where the big bad guys won...I don't think you need to introduce yet another big bad guy like Vecna. Just let the PCs loose on the bad guys you've already got. The last thing a premise like this needs is further complication or yet another flavor of evil.

"We need more lore" just doesn't resonate with me. First, in general I like design that says "this is how it could be" vs "this is how it is". That's why I prefer the random tables of 2024 MM or settings like the 4E Neverwinter Campaign Setting. Second, there's 50 years of lore from previous...

I'm kind of jealous of those of you who have run the same adventure (or campaign) multiple times. I have a pretty consistent group and so I tend not to repeat campaigns. I had a long campaign where the middle section used most of Storm King's Thunder. I'd love the chance to rework and replay...

Many people have noted that the descriptions in the 2024 MM are shorter than the 2014 MM. The general feeling seems to be that less lore = worse lore. But I'm finding the random tables added to most entries are great inspiration -- inspiration for roleplaying monsters and kickstarting...

I'm currently playing a 13th Age campaign, which uses "mooks" -- what 4E calls "minions" and I guess 5E calls "mobs". Anyway. They're a lot of fun. The coolest part is spillover damage. If a mook has 10 hit points and you do 25 damage, you kill two mooks and wound a third. What can make...

I was waiting for that.

I'm not sure if this answers the OP or not... I really like spellcasting in Shadow of the Demon Lord/Weird Wizard. It's grouped around themes. So there's necromancy, fire magic, air magic, healing, time magic, rune magic, etc. If you're a spellcaster, you get to pick a limited number of themes...