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They really could have done with a proper "Build your own NPC/Monster" chapter and sidestepped most of the problem people have with humanoids in the book entirely. Just throw in a bunch of templates, one for each species, and have the generic stat blocks to drape them over. And lets be clear...

The big issues would come from player abilities like Wildshape and Polymorph, which skim the MM for stat blocks. A lot of the MM24 monsters are significantly more deadly than their MM14 counterparts.

I am here still.

None of the above. Come to think of it, I've never had a player do a Drizzt clone either. Though I have had one play a Jarlaxle fanboy.

It's also up on D&D beyond.

I would dare say it's less about D&D being uncool, and more about WotC being uncool.

I don't think I have ever been satisfied with Turn Undead at the table.

This is the kind of analysis I was looking forward too.

No, that's what makes it weird. The Hatchling is a living creature with a "real" biology and the intelligence of a human. If it was a true animal, it wouldn't be as weird.

I don't think the new PDK actually works beyond the "It's cooler than the old PDK!" reaction. It's kind of a mess, really. For starters, they half removed the old subclass leader role in order to give fighters a pet. It's not that fighters don't have room for a pet class, but this one still has...

The spam threads are starting to move out of the D&D forum now too.

I've just seen the same account post like 6 threads, and that's just one of them. Yeah, new and unposted accounts need to be limited somehow, not being able to create threads until they have posted somewhere else and a daily limit on posts until they post 4 or 5 times maybe.

The D&D Next playtest wasn't actually a playtest. It was more like an open marketing feedback survey.

This thing about what is humanoid and what's not humanoid is getting far too complicated for anyone's good. So. PCs have to be humanoid, even when they are ostensibly the same species as their non-humanoid cousins, because they are lesser than their relatives for arbitrary reasons? But also...

Chocobos. More like beasts of burden/mounts than enemy monsters, but still.

I know I'm late to the thread and it's terribly off topic, but I hate how the Backrooms thing has totally ruined the beauty of liminal space by dragging it down to be nothing more than heavily filtered horror fodder.

This is a sentiment shared extensively by a lot of D&D youtubers who wish they didn't have to cover D&D. (In fact I can recall no less than 3 videos bemoaning the point the month alone). After a certain point, you have to wonder if it was even worth monetizing the "hobby" if they hate it so much.

I've just realized that Dandin should have Athletics Proficiency instead of Insight Expertise to make use of his climbing and swimming speeds.

Legendary Resistance makes me wish they ported over the Condition Track.

The Magic Item Compendium from 3.5 has the Screaming weapon property (+1d4 sonic damage). It's the equivalent of a +1 bonus on a magic item, and has a Crafter Level of 7. Power wise: +1d4 damage is basically +2.5 damage. Which would put it somewhere between a Masterwork Weapon from 3.5 and a...