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<<swears at computer>> Chrome, and the only extensions are google docs and adobe. Pressing and holding repeats the error. Second time opening a new tab worked. Happened last night on a different computer.

Some notes from the opposition https://artofeating.substack.com/p/italian-food-really-is-italian-with

I think the big thing there is getting people to think in terms of XP as a benchmark. What does a 20, 50 200, 500, 2000, or 10,000 XP creature like? (What would it be like to think of characters as XP thresholds I stead of giving them numbers for levels)?

I confess to not looking before either, and so don't know what the 2014 ones did. I just eyeballed before to -- but thought with the new books I would check out what the rules had. I think I will continue eyeballing.

It felt odd that they said: "The Dungeon Master's Guide provides guidance to the DM on using CR while planning potential combat encounters." but the rules for doing so just used the XP. Similarly that: "Challenge Rating summarizes the threat a monster poses and is detailed in the Monster...

It also feels odd that the XP gaps between rows of the CR to XP table (MM page 8) and those in the XP Budget per Character table (DMG page 115) work out the way they do. For example: CR 4 = 1100 / Level 5 high = 1100 (and then going down) CR 19 = 22000 / Level 20 high = 22000 But in...

Am I right that the 2024 books have almost nothing about CRs? It almost reads like they meant to put more in either the DMG or MM and then didn't, or did I miss something? Player's Handbook Page 363: "Challenge Rating (CR) summarizes the threat a monster poses to a group of four player...

Sorry! My brain fritzed typing. The one posted today had the same problem as the one posted about 24 hours earlier. (So there are two copies of it up there now.)

Still messed up 24 hours later.

The only one I regularly play is the online version of the Ascension deckbuilding game. Once in a while I will crank up a Cribbage one that counts your suboptimal plays. (I wonder if the last regular videogame I regularly played was Civ II the year it came out...).

Glen Cook's Garrett Files Arak, Son of Thunder (DC comic from the 80s)

And depending on how close to the books they get, they may see a lot of Bili the Axe and some of those he travels with.

But if you say the pirates are all halfing pirates and the fight goes below decks... it feels like whether they have darkvision might come up? Why would it be a balance issue for other monsters but not NPCs? Or is it for neither?

Why bother to mention Darkvision (or the like) for anything then?

And since essentially everything has Darkvision (do they still?), no need to mention things like that :-) But seriously, one page at the back of the MM with a brief overview of it all still feels like it would have been worth a page to me.

Thank you!

Wait. So if I want to add the species info to an NPC do I need to pull out the PHB? And are those the only species of humanoids? I would even have been fine with a separate "Humanoid Handbook" that had all the occupations in alpha order and with the various species info in the back. And what...