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We got the UA8 follow up, which had to wrap up that conversation before they could release the next UA. It does seem like they may slow-roll the cadence, maybe every month and a half? I agree that we'll see an early-mid February UA that focuses on some DM stuff, and then the next one will...

Rules While Transformed. While in a form, you retain your personality, memories, and ability to speak, and the following rules apply: Game Statistics. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the Beast, but you retain your Hit Points; Hit Dice; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma...

I agree. But I am still disappointed with the Base Druid and Moon Druid, because I want wildshape to easily allow any beast form from a diverse fantasy world, scalable for effectiveness, without having to access the Monster Manual. Am I expecting too much from wildshape? Should it be so limited...

I was distracted by many pages of a dragon vs. town sidetrek. Is there anything else to discuss that is on-topic about Rogues? If they don't nerf the new monk, I think I'd be ok with rogues getting Extra Attack (Barbarians may need a nudge too, if monk stays as is.)

When I imagine how many "town guards" there are in a 1,000-person town, I imagine a sheriff and their deputy militia... That's not a lot of people. And even if frontier families craft and train in the use of longbows, they are still low HD commoners who will scatter from dragonfear. A Large...

Prior to the invention of aircraft, our world's real world experience with defending a town was pretty simple. Settlements only ever had to resist attacks from landbound humans. Walls were very effective against smaller forces of humans. Armies had to travel, and siege engines had to be built...

The effects of a throat or groin strike sounds like it would be best represented by a personal physical impairment, like being addled, dazed, stunned, or something like that. I prefer "poisoned" to stay true to representing the effects of a delivered physical or magical toxin. Poison...

I think Pegasus are Celestials for a reason (intelligent, speaking creatures sent by the gods to help people), like Unicorns are Fey for a reason. But I don't have a problem with beast-level-intelligence winged animals like winged horses and winged lions, like Tressym and Flying Snakes both...

Yes, and like the Battle Master, you don't choose the option that does not support your personal fantasy. Do you think most people will choose what they think is the most powerful combo of abilities for optimization purposes and then complain they were forced to, which ruined their imagined...

The list of options are just pulled from existing beasts, to they can be used to recreate beasts. The tentacles exist to recreate the Octopus, or Giant Squid, or any other nonmagical fantasy beast that you want to have tentacles. You don't have to give your Sabre-tooth tiger tentacles. How do I...

The Ogre is one of the litmus tests I am going to use to judge the success of monster design in the revised books. The Ogre is currently a boring sack of HP (with the Hill Giant just being a higher CR of that same theme). They need something interesting to make them dangerous and interesting...

I think there are two masters, but the control over the decisions isn't as you described. The Management of D&D wants to make money, and monetary success is one of their primary motivators, but they are not the brains behind what is designed and created. They just have to be convinced to...

1. That's subjective, but that is all in the mind. As long as it is written in a way that supports the fantasy, it shouldn't be a problem. 2. Enthusiasts of Advanced Wildshape (only available from the Moon Druid subclass) want a fully functional, tough, capable, melee combatant that can fulfill...

But that still doesn't work, logistics-wise. You would need an entire book to create a unique wildshape statblock template for every beast, and every time a new beast statblock was published, it would need another wildshape template as well (maybe even monstrosity statblocks if they don't update...

I know this was an old thread post, but I hadn't seen it before. The vampire will get really excited when the heroes are slaughtering the child he kidnapped and set loose on the 8th level of the dungeon. Oooh! Oooh! A vampire bard who likes being a director of a production, directing his...

I do like when my own sentiments line up with the thoughts of a pro. Points at a butterfly... "Is this... confirmation bias?"

That is a wolf template. A very narrow template.

It's not about optimization. It's about enabling the class fantasy... which is playing the beast you want to play and not sucking because of it. The current design doesn't fulfill any of that. At all. A Moon Druid who prefers a wolf form cannot fight as a wolf at mid to high levels. The stat...

People don't play Moon Druid to do extra radiant damage. They play it to be beefy in combat. They wanna tank with their face. Tying the Big Beefy Beast Tank subclass to the Moon theme has been a problem since the beginning, as it muddles the theme and effectiveness. Shoehorning moon and radiance...

They will have an unspoken timeline for PHB release (even if we don't know it yet), and they will want to meet it, as they will have a LOT of partnerships to manage that will coincide with it. They have to manage printing windows based on printer availability, they have Marketing to plan...