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I think I missed this one with it being buried under all the other tangential stuff being thrown in here. Interesting that low level monsters have relatively small or no changes, seemingly made mostly for ease of running them. But this stone golem is a really nice upgrade, which kind of...

Resistance to damage other than silver goes back to at least the 19th century. Total immunity to anything but silver hasn't been consistently represented though. In many cases it just takes a lot more firepower to kill them if not using silver as in An American Werewolf in London.

I've ignored the multiplier (as do the new rules) for a long time. It still depends on luck and tactics. Just ran a game last weekend where the fight was a lot tougher than it should have been because nobody was focusing fire. On the other hand I've had some fights I expected to be medium...

I've had to restart groups from scratch because of moving too often and most of the people have been either people I met while doing public games such as AL. But while some people move or otherwise drop out (one left because I don't allow evil PCs) my experience is that once you get a decent...

I think I've been busy. :) Kind of surprised they only moved the Berserker's trait into the attack and didn't change any other stats and cultist lost their advantage. Guess they still matched the targets close enough not to change. Not sure about magical weapons not getting around the...

Sadly, management rarely agrees to significant rewrites unless the app is a total dumpster fire.

One of the few monsters I've seen that they reduced HP. Also, have they gotten rid of Traits altogether? I don't remember seeing any, looks like they just give a flat bonus to perception now. I do like that they are just giving casters a default cantrip-like attack and assume they have mage...

Seriously ... I'm not in any way telling anyone what they can or cannot post. But if we create a separate thread for the edition-not-edition conversation would you take your discussion there? If we say please?

Well, heavens forbid we actually talk about something related to the actual topic of the thread. ;) But sure. I like the more compact stat blocks and I thought the sprite was better written. I've just been ignoring this thread for a while because it was just the same argument that's taken...

Have you ever done application development and redesign on a (somewhat) complex code base? While keeping the system up and running? Been there, done that. It's not easy. Convincing management at any company I've ever worked at that it's worth the cost is even more difficult because...

Do we really need yet another thread sidetracked onto new-edition-or-not wars? Can't we just create a separate thread for that if you want to discuss it? I came here to see if there's any updates for things related to the new MM and related like the new Sprite stat block pages ago.

It's likely a bad database design, although without insider info we can't be sure. In any case, that would be the fault of the company that originally built DDB, Curse LLC.

Good to point out, but that's only for character creation. I want one that does it for everything I do. Have it default in the character build as well, but every time I do a search or basically everything other than character creation it's still a pain. Ideally I'd have a "If I have a newer...

There's a thread D&D (2024) - DDB Maps now integrates the combat tracker I only played with it a little bit but you just drop the appropriate monster icon and it adds the monster to the encounter. Then you can get all the details with a click without going to DDB.

As opposed to an invasion by illithid from another plane that have opened a dimensional rift that must be closed? It's not like the basic plots are really all that different.

Yeah, it's annoying. I really wish I could just toggle a setting to not use the 2014 rules.

If it's really a public game open to everyone and not just people playing a private game using AL mods, yes. So if it's a games store or con, it's supposed to follow the rules fairly closely.

There have been some AAA games where I had the same reaction to their stories.

Yes, there do need to be limits and as DM and referee sometimes we have to say no. It depends on campaign style and assumptions. In FR for example, there's apparently a dozen or so organizations (I can't keep track of them all) that seemingly span the known world(s). With a network like that...

They could have a license now that their first game was reasonably successful? It will never be BG3, but it doesn't need to be.