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Suggest changes -- convince me!: I've laid out my reasoning. I am interested in where you thin I am mis-judging things. (But yes, this is something I did for myself, in the first instance to assess "backwards compatibility" of MotM. It won't be of use to everyone. I know I rate things very...

How do these results map onto the PC species in Monsters of the Multiverse? (Are these species balanced in light of the new rules?). For each of these, I am ignoring the ASI and Languages rules, and scoring the rest, as detailed above. The range is wider than the new PHB races (7-14), with a...

How did I arrive at these scores? There are many recurrent features or classes of features, and by definition they should have comparable point values. At the same time, and totally subjectively, there has to be some variation for synergies, and this means a familiar feature has to fall within...

Not all species are created equal, and scoring where the imbalances exist offers one way to assess and quantify these differences. In my judgement, the ten PHB 2024 species score between 7 and 12 points. That’s a fair range, and suggests that the designers value some of these features...

When Tommi catches up and sees Lionel climbing the rope, he springs to action. He slides Gutter into its scabbard, the blade shaking no to itself all the way in. Tommi grabs the bottom of the rope and immediately starts climbing himself, and over hand. The immediate effect, of course, is to...

I don't see a thread on this yet, so I bring weird news! PETA (yes, PETA) has released three subclasses that are animal-themed, available for download here. Circle of Empathy (Druids) Oath of Animal Liberation (Paladin) Warden of the Wild (Ranger). They are keyed to the 2014 rules, not the...

I am still thinking of Fast Hands as a subclass feature as well. Until there is a clear consensus on how that works, talking about multiclassing is (to me) beside the point. (And, frankly, I think you are making the best case possible for the view I am now disagreeing with.) Possibly, the whole...

Related, if tangential, is the fact that the Arcane Trickster's Mage Hand is meaningfully better than any one else's. There are reasons to give the Rogue a perk not generally available to dedicated spellcasters.

This (esp. the bolded bit) seems mostly to correspond to chapter 9 in the 2014 DMG (which is where many optional rules are). I have not seen clear indications that there's something corresponding to ch 4 (making NPCs), which I would expect. It's a short chapter in 2014, but an important one.

Returning a few arrows to her quiver, Miss Imogen looks around, furious at what this has cost them. Her hair is caked in sweat, from the heat and the exercise of battle, and the shame she feels at having failed in so many ways. Her anger is for herself more than anyone else and she bites her...

Tommi finds himself in the necromancer's lair, and there is no sign of his friend. Perhaps he is squirreled away behind one of the many nooks here; perhaps he is still in the sewer; he might even have gone upstairs. Tommi and Lionel had played hide-and-seek enogh times as boys that he knew the...

I'm happy to proceed this way, but seeing the turns planned (out of the basement/out of the lodge/out of the forest), I don't think Tommi is going to try to rush ahead, even for Lionel. Knowing that's the three turns in this challenge, I think Tommi (who does not run ahead and abandon the group...

With this, you have convinced me that your interpretation is mistaken. Activating a scroll takes an action. Actions are listed in ch 1 and in the glossary: which action is it? The only plausible candidate is that it is a Magic action. That should settle the matter. You may be right that it is...

Fair enough. There was a big thread about it here back in February, much of which focused on the nerfs (link).

It's an illusory asterisk. (Save to disbelieve).

The 2024 rules are kinder to Illusion magic than any edition we have had in 50 years. Between the Illusionist subclass, the Trickster Cleric, the Glamour Bard, and the Arcane Trickster, there are now four subclasses partial to Illusion magic, and some guidance (not enough, sadly) to help...

There's nothing hidden about this -- it is explicitly doing exactly what the change wants to do, which is to reduce the over-powered nature of Moon Druids in the 2014. rules. I've not played with Polymorph enough to feel I have a complete sense of how it worked, but my sense is that it's doing...

While Donnell works, the Colonel moves to a point position on the east sie of the room. He sees the open doors, an while he doesn't peer inside, he does look down the corridor to the south, an he listens.

"No!" Miss Imogen screams. "Not again!". As the second hag fades, Miss Imogen does a quick tally of what this pointess fight has cost them. She looks at Kapalue, bravely daring to attack with his tiny sling, and she realizes how grateful she is that her dear Weed is still alive, and how close...

The Colonel stands and cracks his knuckles, as he joins Doc. He adjusts his shield and is ready to strike, keen as always to lead the charge. He makes visual contact with Donnell, and is pleased that the lad is on his own, holding himself with confidence and strength. I am not sure if we have...