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GM POST Termalaine Creeping through the gem-encrusted mines, every sound is intensified, every crackle of ice or crunch of snow a chance to be discovered. At last, you exit the caves, beholding Termalaine's palette of washed out whites, greys, and blues. You've made it out undetected by...

GM POST Lumrolur unearths a mottled pink and green pebble sized tourmaline gem (1 gp). However, the scraping of the chisel and clinking of the hammer cause the cultist voices to your southwest to momentarily hush and then a sharp woman's voice as cold as winter wind calls out. Thinking fast...

I always appreciate your thoughts, Merric, and look forward to reading anything you care to post on the topic!

It sounds like you might say the 2024 stealth rules are... ...hiding in plain sight?

GM POST It takes a moment for the cat-sized ugly rats to sniff out the jerked rations that Oskar tosses into the north alcove. After a minute of watching the party, they scurry over to investigate and hungrily chew on the rations, eyeing the party as you move quietly past and along the...

Gotcha gotcha. Actually what I thought was interesting are the specific “jump” points in different monster hp/ac/damage/saves by level, and how those vary across the three sources!

No I have not, but I think our GM ran it with another group and spoke highly of it.

I thought side-by-side comparison of 2014 DMG guidelines, Blogofholding's 2018 monster chart, and then his 2025 monster chart would be interesting...

Dolmenwood is phenomenal, you're in for a treat. I'm playing in online Foundry-based game currently. I know our GM has supplemented with blogs/generators/adventures from OSR and Gavin Norman. Fantastic locations, monsters, food/drink and general weirdness, and everyone is having a blast with...

Someone else will have to field that, as I didn't get 2024 books, and am only going off of Roll20/DnDBeyond sources that are publicly available.

Ah, my mistake, thanks. Corrected my post.

I'm hopeful that 2024 D&D stewards a lot of new players into the game as a communal/shared activity and encourages/supports a lot of new GMs. Their approach with shorter adventures, more public play, and more teacher/club support is great. Hats off to the folks pushing that front (I know Shawn...

For everyone saying "that's too many magic items", consider the 2024 magic items by level guidelines. By 18th level, the party can be expected – according to those guidelines from 2024 DMG – to have accumulated (not created) the following between them all during the campaign... 19 Common items...

Did they roll back completely on Legendary Reactions? Because if those are still present in 2024 MM monsters, and you have a 2014 PC with reaction-denial like shocking grasp, that's one hiccup you need to figure out. What about the "it's a spell but it's not a spell" abilities, are those...

With this particular stat block, there's a clear step backward in the omission of "AC 14 (or 11 while prone)" from the new 2024 stat block. Including weaknesses for players to exploit against monsters is just good play. Haven't seen that go wrong. IMO not enough examples of fun weaknesses in...

At least Genies are in one place like Mephits…. Oh… oh wait. ;) Thank you for doing all that looking up and reporting back Merric!