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Ok, so I did some more reading, and I can't say the guilds hold my interest. They're the major players, the major selling point of Ravnica... and they feel generic. Like, they don't really feel like they play with the tropes they were assigned, and instead just are what they say on the tin...

I'll have to take a look at that, sure. That said, mt problem is that not I'm feeling the guilds being a central focus, rather than "Are the guilds interesting?" Like I keep saying: good, interesting factions with lots of interplay should be a requirement of every setting, not a selling point of...

Yeah, that still doesn't quite make me excited for Ravnica itself, sorry. The factions controlling everything, again, does not make me think, "Oh, that's unique to Ravnica!" Again, the interplay of different factions and how they try to influence and manipulate each other feels like a core part...

Right, I see. I'll have to take a deeper look when the book comes out, but right now the guilds feel like a bit of a weak hook. The interplay between factions with differing goals and ideals is a crux of many settings to me, so it feels odd to go, "yeah, this setting's interesting thing is that...

Having not followed mtg, a part of me is still wondering as a player, "Why play in Ravnica?" Is it because it's a city that covers the world? If so, what does having it span the entire world offer that playing an urban game in a regular city doesn't? It is a Metropolis style city, a Gotham...

I don't. Even outside of what the game defines as acrobatics versus Athletics, Dexterity is already considered one of the "best" stats in the game (improving To hit & Damage, AC, one of the more common saving throws in the game...) To me it helps keep strength from being nearly useless to non...

I've considered using training for levelling, but the reasoning was so that the calendar would move and things in the world could change. That's the main reasoning why I didn't adjust the gold costs, as the goal wasn't to drain it. It's a bit too low to be a money drain. If you want it to be a...

I haven't checked firefox or Microsoft edge for the functionality yet, as I primarily use chrome. On Chrome, if you go into settings, there should be a link labelled, "Manage Search Engines." Under, "Other search engines," if D&D beyond isn't there yet, you'll want to add "D&D Beyond" as the...

I can set my web browser so that if I begin a search with dnd it'll automatically search D&D Beyond's database instead of google searching it. So far I cannot do the same for Fantasy Grounds or roll20. This makes searching for specific rules or features *super* easy.

You're right, partially. Most likely, it's a carry-over of the storyline/cross-media tie-in plans from the launch of 5e, of which Neverwinter MMO was one aspect of. That, and wotc likely finds adventure books to be more useful to a larger swath of audience, who could run them as is, steal maps...

Same here. That said, in my last campaign I had: Expanded actions, hitting cover (though very few of my PCs were ranged anyway), non-combat XP, the possibility to pick up firearms (though not in just any store), and Loyalty, which I used as a modifier for a BECMI inspired Morale system.

Essentially what neogod said. Invisible lets you still be targeted, hidden does not. As strange as it is, Hidden > Invisible

I'm not really sure why you need a system for scaling armour on a race. All it's useful for is keeping up with the magic item Joneses, which isn't necessarily good form for a rule system that doesn't really assume the gradual accumulation of +X items to keep up. And yes, Eberron is magical, but...

I was going to mention the bite, but ultimately didn't. However, here's my quick take on it: yawn. It does damage equal to a dagger without finesse. Most of the classes want a higher damage weapon, a weapon with a specific property, or just for the hit to land. In the case of the monk...

Some of these races have some neat lore behind them, but mechanically, only the Viashino and Simic Hybrid feel inspired (and the viashino loosely). There aren't any ability a Loxodon gets that's really unique to it. I can name a race for every trait it has (except keen smell, to which I'd point...

I must say, that's quite the name for the minis line. I would've gone for, "Icons of Ravnica," myself. That said, I can see why they kept "Icons of the Realms," in the name, even if technically this wave has nothing to do with the Realms.

Two women, 1 dude. One player whose noted transmasculine feelings but still identifies with feminine pronouns. So it's somewhere between 50/50 and 75/25, depending on where the last individual would prefer to be placed, if either.

I voted disappointed, but I'm somewhere between that and neutral. Neutral for the setting itself, disappointed that for now the spelljammer teasers are currently just references and nods instead of foreshadowing. Does it hint towards Spelljammer stuff in the future? Maybe; but it's not...

That's also one of the things I like about this book as a primer. While it might not go in depth about a lot of the locations in Eberron (I like fleshing things out and making the world mine, but I know some would rather have the deep dive), the fact that every location has a header for, "Why...

While I had my initial disappointment on Monday about the book (more because I thought the spelljammer references and them highlighting it in interviews would mean more than what it turned out to be than for Ravnica itself), I'm mostly over it and curious to see what it adds though. I do have...