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That *is* a nice cover. It's too bad I forgot to pre-order it, so my ability to pick up that comes comes down to blind luck.

I disagree.There's no reason to, as somebody's still going to want to play something that breaks the mould, regardless of it it's splat or core. The easiest way to make an interesting character is to have a type, and then play against it. Discouraging playing against type is discouraging what...

I'll counter your perspective with an anecdote about the perspective I first entered the game through. I didn't really care about versmilitude when I first picked up the rules. I just wanted to find something that was cool to play as for when I got a chance to join a group. I didn't know every...

My disagreement with the negatives in ability scores is mainly that it doesn't really add anything interesting. Do you really benefit from making kobolds worse at being a heavy armour user than even races with no benefit to STR? It doesn't hurt the game as a whole per se, especially if you're...

Yeah, that sounds about in line with what I was expecting. It's probably less useful on a Fighter though (especially w/ reliable bonus action attacks from PM/XBE) simply because of the extra chances to land the +10 from GWM/SS if you know how to counteract the -5. EDIT: Assuming there aren't...

It could've just been worded more like the Assassin's abilities, which also trigger in similar conditions (requiring you to hit a surprised combatant). After that just limit it to once on your turn and you'd achieve basically the same thing as what 1/combat was going for.

I would also argue it's more useful at lower levels of play. Fewer low CR creatures are immune or resistant to fear unless they have PC levels (meaning the fear half of feature is actually meaningful), and the amount of time it'd take for it to catch up is slightly quicker (though I forgot to...

Right, I see what you and hemlock mean now. It's not too concerning to me, then (it never really was, but still). It's a nice free damage bonus at low levels, where your damage output is low enough that any boost is warranted (and immunity to fear is uncommon at this point in the game) (and also...

Either I'm misreading you or your misreading the extra damage. The extra damage is added once per turn on top of what you normally inflict. Aside from the action to enter it, it's free damage.

I know the one time it came up in my game (NPC hobgoblin ally downed by a bugbear, and then rolled a 20 within a round or two shortly after), I leaned towards start of the turn, but wasn't sure, so I had the NPC take the turn to instead reorient himself and get a feel for what happened for the 2...

Oh, we have quicklings now? One of the ToD Icons minis I got was a quickling, and now we have proper stats for it. Yay. Now if only we had stats for the fire bat minis I got from the Elemental Evil board game.

That would've been neat. Even something that just notes you can have an appearance similiar to that of a non-human race, like the Genasi does, would've been a helpful addition. Personally I would've liked to have seen an appearance table like the tiefling gets full of traits that make them look...

An alternative might also be to say the DMG aasimar represents "when a human and an angel love each other very much" while the Volo Aasimar represents a being that was created in a more "planned" divine intervention, and thus was either sent to the Material Plane as a child or created in a...

Thanks. I was just going to pick up the book Saturday, but I guess that works too. Interesting that this page references the Tyranny of Dragons. Just a bit of tying everything together, but interesting.

Honestly for my group the hardest thing to teach them isn't the rules themselves; that's all on their character sheets. No, my players seem to neglect looking at the character sheets entirely. On the one hand that's been great as my players are more likely to improvise a number of things (though...

What I've heard about Aasimar sounds interesting, but it really throws a wrench into how I was originally planning to give aasimar variant traits like the SCAG Tiefling. I'll have to see it action before I decide how to handle this.

I think you're overstating how hard it is to learn 5e. My own group is completely new to D&D, with myself only starting to really delve into the rules when 5e came out, and nobody's had any problems (aside from a switch from online to offline where everyone forgot how to roll d20s). There's...

They say wizard level.

To date most class abilites that scales by level (rather than class features that upgrade it) specifies that it scales by your level in that class. The number of spells you can prep, the amount of hit points in your Arcane Ward, the hit point total of the PH's Beast Master... Aside from...

Ah, fair enough. They're still somewhat interesting (But then again being as new to the game as I am, anything seems new and interesting) but I can see why you'd rather something else.