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I suspect this will see some gods previously defined as Intermediate dropping to lesser, while other intermediates becoming greater (on a case by case basis). The sidebar specifies Lolth as a lesser god - in Forgotten Realms, at least, she has been defined as a demon lord, an intermediate god...

I really liked the 2e era, with the genasi being almost whimsical and highly varied in appearance. An Air genasi might be pale with hair that's always whipped by wind, or they might have feathers instead of hair. I suspect the Aasimar and Tiefling are a good look at what kinds of abilities they...

In 5e, medusae are not exclusively female, but are the product of a divine curse. The earth prophet may be a victim of such a curse. He might even be this adventure's rough equivalent of Lareth the Beautiful. I'd have put money on a blue, barnacle covered guy named Gar Shatterkeel being a genasi!

In 5e, medusae are not exclusively female, but are the product of a divine curse. The earth prophet may be a victim of such a curse. He might even be this adventure's rough equivalent of Lareth the Beautiful. I'd have put money on a blue, barnacle covered guy named Gar Shatterkeel being a genasi!

I had a great time running this, but the party had gone through Lost Mine first and I basically dropped them in to Chapter 5 (I had the Cult attack Phandalin to get things rolling). It was entertaining seeing what the party would come up with (particularly in the 8th chapter, when they were...

I'm excited for the warforged, but I suspect they won't work completely the way I'd like. Which is fine - if I use them I can just implement a house-rule. I like the idea of them being immune to poison and disease, not having to make death saves, and so on, but also not being healed by spells...

We do have the possibility that the Adventurer's League will stick to Forgotten Realms, even when a non-realms setting specific adventure or book is released. As an example, maybe they introduce Psionics alongside a Dark Sun module (or boxed set, or whatever). The Adventurer's League then has a...

This adventure might be more setting neutral than Tyranny of Dragons. They've got solid talent working on the adventure, and I anticipate good things in the Adventurer's Guide. Hopefully this is where we will see the Storm Sorcerer (it's mentioned in the PHB) and perhaps Genasi or even Shai'ar.

I think at this point we don't entirely know the full results of the Sundering (we might have to wait for the campaign setting, or at least Gencon, for more details). It's been strongly implied that all of the Gods are back - we know Lathander is back as well as Bhaal. Helm gets mentioned quite...

I notice that many posters are concerned about the depiction of the Tiefling as the 4e version, but the playtest packet actually addresses that. A sidebar in the playtest explained that a race called the "Plane-touched" will cover the older 2e Planescape concept of the race. The Plane-touched...

I think that the red box is the outdated thing. It would have been printed long before the previews were put up. The rogue isn't the only thing that seems off, as others have noted. The fighter is adding Con mod to damage instead of Dex and a recent countdown article confirms that Dex is the...

This power is most certainly too good. I ran a group with a Paladin that went Champion of Order. I watched this power used from levels 11 to 15 before finally deciding to change it. It did trivialize Solo monsters - and only very rarely did I see one break the challenge (this is even harder...

I attended the "D&D Extravaganza" at Gencon. At that seminar they said that it would take a party from levels 12 to 18. I'm guessing a little expansion can make it 11 to 20.

I'll be interested to see how much of the history from the Prism Pentad is used in this edition. If memory serves, I don't believe the original box even told you what the Sorcerer-Kings were (nor did it tell you what The Dragon really was either). I expect we'll get more history than the...

I love speculating, and I love Dark Sun (the first campaign setting I purchased) - here we go: 1) Discussion at the Con mentioned that Divine Characters would be discouraged (though not prohibited). My guess is that they might operate as servants of the Sorcerer-Kings. On the other hand, they...

Great info here! (and much earlier than I expected!) I was curious if the book discusses the place of various classes in the campaign setting. If so, does it discuss Warlock Pacts? Primal classes and the various druidic "sects" from 3e? Divine classes could also have some unique space...

I loved 3.x, but I'm going to echo what others have said: high-level play was discouraging and very low-level play stopped being fun after the first time we did it. I ran or played in lots of campaigns in 3rd edition, and most of them hit a wall at level 13. The game, at that level, had become...

They also gave us more than just info on the economy, but on rewards as well. I'm guessing we'll see Archons at some other point.

The Fighter is doing 2d6+3 with the Maul with a +6 to the basic attack. He is STR 16 and is getting a +1 to attack with 2-hnd weapons as a Class Feature. Looks like the big advantage to 2-hnd weapons is simple damage (and likely Power choices).

While Dominated, characters are also dazed - they only get to make one action (minor, move, or standard). Some of the numbers on these characters are interesting. The Damage from Divine Challenge from the Paladin is 6 instead of 8 - since his Wis is 13, I think damage is 5+Wis mod. (and maybe...