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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook reveal: "New Sorcerer"

    I'm glad we got "spell rage", ie Innate Sorcery to stay, I think it does a lot to strengthen the core gameplay of the Sorcerer. I was happy with most of the last UA, so I'm looking forward to seeing my favourite class get a solid glowup.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook reveal: "New Monk"

    I'm pleased with the changes, the last UA was pretty good.
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    D&D Historian Benn Riggs On Gary Gygax & Sexism

    Calling him a "product of his era" seems to downplay the ... "harm" feels like an inaccurate word, but I'm going with it ... that was caused by it. Current DnD culture is still grappling with how much racism and sexism is baked into its past. We don't have to excoriate Gygax, but sexism didn't...
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    D&D General Race Has No Mechanics. What do you play?

    I'd be fine with it. It does mean lineages that I like to play for mechanical reasons (Changelings, Dragonborn, Faerie, for example) wouldn't be played, but that's about it.
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    D&D General 5.5 and making the game easier for players and harder for DMs

    TBH, I've already noted an increase in monster lethality. I mainly run pre-published adventures, and ran Light of Xaryxis twice, noticing there are some new monsters with the capability for 1-hit KOs and just a lot of the newer monsters were punching way better than their CR equivalents in the...
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    D&D General 5.5 and making the game easier for players and harder for DMs

    The focus has been primarily on the player side, but I'm assuming the revised books will see a general power boost on both sides of the DM screen. It's already been said that several monsters have been found to not match their CR. A rearranged DMG with cleaner encounter guidelines will make it...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Green Dragon First Look on Gizmodo

    All the new dragon designs feel like they've got a lot longer tails than before. Overall, I like.
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D Pre-orders; this is sad

    I hate our current capricious and unchecked capitalism, but I find it hard to get particularly upset over this one. We've been asking for digital/paper integration, and tbh, if I weren't in Canada, dealing with exchange rate and international shipping, this might actually get me into buying...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Could we get a Bloomburrow (Redwall) setting for 5.24?

    For those that are interested in the world building of Bloomburrow, first three chapters of the story are now up: Part 1: Bloomburrow | Episode 1: Calamity Comes to Valley Part 2: Bloomburrow | Episode 2: An Expected Party Part 3: Bloomburrow | Episode 3: The Lost and the Found And ... I think...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Players Handbook reveal: "New Crafting Rules"

    Also, just like in MTG, a lot of wands and magic implements get stylized to look like guns these days. The recent Cowboy Magic set had a lot of ... these aren't guns, but they're practically guns.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Players Handbook reveal: "New Crafting Rules"

    This was more a tease and not actual rules (but I can't wait for the cavalcade of how broken or useless these rules are), but in principal, this is a good addition to 5e.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Multiclassing in D&D 2024

    Not the gumdrop buttons!
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook preview: "New Spells"

    But he also said that while playing BG3, which matches my experience. The challenge is the game makes it a two step process. Step 1: Ignite the orb/ cast the spell Step 2: Attack with it And it is annoying, you have to click on the spell, confirm the casting, click on the Throw fire icon...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook reveal: "New Ranger"

    First ... bold claim to call this 1/2 the fan base. Second, I know a lot of people like calling Jeremy Crawford a lying liar who lies, but I do remember him saying that until the second pass at the Monk got rave reviews, the Ranger was leading for "best improved class" in playtests. I dunno...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How you going to roll... 5.24 into your game(s)?

    I don't have an active 5e campaign, tbh I have been holding off starting one until the revised books come out. Planning to just make the change, use older material as necessary, but just change over
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    D&D 5E (2024) What happened to proficiency bonus times per day?

    I bombed out of PF2 long before that, but I will say that I do believe you need more than one approach. 4e, prior to PH3, you only had feat-based multiclassing and it wasn't great except for that desire to just dip a toe into another class. But also having Hybrid classes allowed more...
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    D&D 5E (2024) What happened to proficiency bonus times per day?

    A la carte multiclassing like 3rd and 5th editions, I will definitely agree. I preferred 4e style, with either Hybrid classes or Multiclassing via feats.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Ranger 2024 is a bigger joke than Ranger 2014:

    Heh. Next you'll think it's unhinged to post a thread today about how useless the 2024 Monk is.
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC has called the new ruleset 5.2. Why don't we?

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