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Holy crap. I was unaware of this drama and dispute surrounding the book but now I'm kind of glad I didn't purchase it.

I mean, that's entirely fair. In my case the space ogres are part of a larger orc army that the party have had periodic clashes with over the course of the campaign. I wouldn't use them as grunts for an unrelated faction, so I agree with you on that point.

Yes. This is what they said, essentially. I don't know why people care so damn much about this, but this certainly hasn't been represented as some sort of fan-demanded change in their videos.

What exactly makes you say they're presenting it as player-driven? Nothing I saw in the video gave me that impression.

I'm still not sure I understand. The PCs are stronger, it's not that the foes are weaker. The story justification is that the party is better at fighting things than they were 6 levels ago.

I think you're taking the terms a bit too literally. When I said the space ogre was a miniboss, I didn't mean that it was a commander with minions, I just meant that it was a hard enemy that the party had to focus down. A boss fight, not a liuetenant. It was always a mook as far as the leaders...

I mean I would think a horde of regular orcs stops being a serious threat at level 6 when you can drop two fireballs a day.... Or two a short rest if you're a Fiend Pact Warlock.

Is that including the Plane Shift stuff? or the Archdevil Tieflings? because I only counted like 52 ish non-legacy options.

Uh... was anyone complaining about the lack of bakers, librarians, and shop-keepers?

I think my bigger issue is having to justify the escalation of threats within the game world. When the party takes on an adult dragon and a lichen lich within a week-in game that has to give other bad guys pause.

No the party just got stronger. Like I think it's a CR 6 creature so how many of them the party can handle has just gone up.

I think it depends on the scenario and the assumed power level of the game. I've been using a custom Space Ogre monster in my spelljammer game since it started at 5th level (it's now at 12th level) but I have adjusted the to hit and damage slightly to make sure it's still relevant. The...

Okay but I can fix her.

There are more NPC statblocks now. That's a good thing. But saying that there are more Orc/Duergar/Drow/whatever statblocs than before because you can just use the NPC statblocks for them is just PR... You could always do that. To be clear, I'm not annoyed about not having the base 'race as...

There's a conversion chart.

Looked through my collection and the only non-official patron I found with Flaming Sphere at 3rd level was the Red Dragon patron from The Elements and Beyond.

And yet they let you play as Kender.

The thing about using the humanoid statblocks as templates is... that was already a thing. There's a list of npc heritage templates on page 282 of the 2014 DMG. Edit: Ninja'd

I mean they can, but the Solasta team did make that game through special agreement, not through OGL/CC

Larian also sold BG3 in Early Access for three years and created it iteratively. Not really an option with a movie.