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With legendary actions, there's another 36 points of potential damage. Not sure if that factors into damage recommendations or not.

Pathfinder 2E will add a new giant-themed ancestry in this summer's Battlecry! rulebook. Earlier this week over on Polygon, Paizo revealed new details about their upcoming yearly rulebook, which will add the Commander and Guardian martial classes to the game. The Jotunborn are described as a...

Can’t do that. I only have watermarked copies.

Are you wondering how the monsters have changed in the 2025 Monster Manual? Well, one way of showing this is to make side-by-side comparisons of the 2025 monsters to their 2014 equivalents. Today, we're looking at the aboleth. The aboleth has received a major visual redesign, transforming the...

How much have the monsters changed in the 2025 Monster Manual? Well, one way of showing this is to make side-by-side comparisons of the 2025 monsters to their 2014 equivalents. First up, the Aarakocra. The 2014 Aarakocra entry had a single statblock for a CR 1/4 creature. There are two...

I don't disagree! I like the new Monster Manual, but it's a big miss IMO.

I have an interview coming out later this week where Crawford notes that there will always be room for more specialized statblocks, just not in the Monster Manual.

I devoted the majority of the article explaining the design choices in question to directly refute the idea that D&D "scrubbed" the Monster Manual of orcs. I appreciate the feedback and probably could have worded the first sentence a bit better. It was a Friday evening post after a long week...

In regards to the "culture war" commentary, multiple things can be true. The treatment of orcs in the current edition of Dungeons & Dragons is actively being used as fodder for the ongoing "culture war" being pushed on Twitter and right-wing outlets. The actual mechanics of how orcs are...

From the Monster Manual: "Fiend cultists worship fiends or evil deities. They often work to bring ruin to innocents or to summon their sinister patron into the world. Fiend cultists might serve infamous powers such as archdevils and demon lords, or foul immortals—beings such as Demogorgon...

To be fair, I think that the designers are deliberately aiming for more generic/versatile statblocks in the core rulebook to maximize its use. An "aberrant cultist" might not have the same flavor as a Priestess of Lolth, but it will get more use. That doesn't necessarily mean that we won't get a...

They do not.

Yes, as goblins were reclassified as fey creatures.

The culture war surrounding orcs in Dungeons & Dragons continues with the release of the 2025 Monster Manual. Review copies of the Monster Manual are out in the wild, with many sites, EN World included, are giving their thoughts about the final core rulebook for the revised Fifth Edition...

Critical Role's third campaign will end next week with an extra-sized final episode. Today, the popular streaming series announced that its third campaign would wrap up on February 6th with an 8.5 hour episode. The series finale is being called the "conclusion to this chapter in Exandrian...