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I think it is essential for solo type monsters or villains meant to face a party of adventurers to either have 4e type solo features or 5e legendary actions and legendary resistance. Otherwise the big epic battle against the chief villain either has to involve mooks in the final fight or...

I think the reason is that they knew they couldn't finish all three books with proper care by GenCon 2014, so they came up with this plan. And it's fine by me. If the alternative was waiting for all three books until December 2014, I'm much happier getting to start now even though I won't have...

What I would add to the Tarrasque is another form of attack it can use in place of one or more of its regular attacks: "throw small home/boulder" and "throw large house/large boulder" (to replace two attacks or chomp legendary action). This would give it a long range attack. And also some...

If a druid casts barkskin, and then wildshapes, will the barkskin continue to work in beast form?

Are all the spells on this PDF also on the Player's Handbook?

Thanks so much, Curmudjinn. I have a player who has a character concept that may be perfect for that. Also, for those who have the Hoard of the Dragon Queen adventure already, could you please tell me what is the town where the adventure starts? My players' characters are in Phandalin now...

Thanks to all who have been answering questions for the rest of us on this thread. I was wondering if someone could give a list of the Path of the Totem barbarian's features and very general description of what the features are for if not obvious from the name.

Thanks to all who have taken time to post answers to questions on this thread and share your access to the long awaited Playe'rs Handbook by doing so. I was wondering, how does spell progression work with multiclassing an eldritch knight and a full spell caster? I saw posts above that when you...

Do we have any reason to think there won't be any swarm rules/swarms in the Monster Manual (or in Basic D&D for that matter)?

I'm also a backer who is getting cold feet because of this preview. I haven't pulled out yet, but need to see some good previews to get my confidence back, and an explanation of how they intend to fix the glaring design problems with this particular monster, to make sure I know they understand...

Thanks for the responses. I guess it is too early to draw a conclusion until the PHB is in our hands and we can look at how the full Barbarian and the feats work together. Who knows, maybe when he sees the various character concepts in the book he will be drawn to something else anyway.

My group tried the playtest last year with the adventure "Reclaiming Blingdenstone" and one of my players made a barbarian character he loved, which wielded an axe in each hand. We started playing again with new characters using the Starter Set and the Basic rules, but he's been looking forward...

I'm happy to hear the news of more pages and more monsters in the Monster Manual. One thing I'm hoping for this that this means they will have room for a variety of orcs, goblins, kobolds, gnolls, etc. and a variety of human and demi-human "monsters" such as a warrior, a spellcaster and a...

I'm not seeing the problem. The rules already say that darkness under a full moon is partial obscurement rather than total. Is the objection just that this should extend to darkness under any significant moonlight, and that total darkness should only apply underground when you have no light...

Thanks, Agamon. I thought I'd seen a date somewhere but looked and couldn't find it today.

Now that I have the Starter Set from my local WPN store, and have downloaded the Basic rules, my attention has turned to getting my hands on the Player's Handbook. I know the official release date is August 19, but was wondering if it has been announced if this will be released to WPN stores...

Thanks for sharing this info, grimshwiz. I had a burning question in my mind. How much damage do the wizard cantrips Fire Bolt and Ray of Frost do, and how much does the cleric cantrip sacred flame do? I've been curious whether damage cantrips for clerics and wizards will be equivalent to, do...

I think gnomes do have a place in the D&D world distinct from dwarves or halflings. In a lot of recent campaign settings and aventures they've been defined as either little fey beings who are magical and quirky, or as tinkerers. Either vision of them tends to show them as an odd bunch, often...

Sounds like a great final session, Merrick! Let us know how it went when it is done. My final 4th edition session was last night. The player characters, who started in first level and defeated the Iron Circle in Nentir Vale, then sacked the Cairn of the Winter King, played through a...

I ended up buying the Illithid Raiding Party, Drow Raiding Party and the tiefling/cambion, as well as those prepainted underdark cavern stalagmites/crystals/fungi. I think I will start with painting the drow, and the gnoll from the Illithid pack.