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Exactly, right?!? Finally all are armed up like a real dungeon-delving expedition!

I agree with you, Riley. Upon first seeing the image, it struck me that the point of the painting is precisely to be "way too busy"; to be over-the-top bonkers in fact, as if to suggest, "Yo, there are a sh*t ton of wacky monsters in here." The image on the back cover of the new book reinforces...

I contend that if this was selected as the cover art of any of the core rulebooks, it also would have been chewed up and spit out by the Internet peanut gallery. People may fire off a one-sentence post that reads something like, "This should have been the cover art," but I think that most are...

It is a terrific updating of the adventurers and I like it quite a bit...well done. But, honestly, the peanut gallery here on ENWorld and elsewhere all over the Internet would have eaten this up and spit it out if it was the cover. Not because it is not well done by any means, but for...reasons...

No kidding...and the 2nd edition AD&D Monstrous Compendium Volume One (there was no Monstrous Manual for four years).

By not reprinting monster and NPC stats from the MM, magic items from the DMG, etc., Wizards of the Coast wisely set itself up to be able to revise these elements in revised core books without having to revise the adventures (and campaign supplements). When DMing, I barely find it an...

Will this be the future of Dungeons & Dragons for its next fifty years I wonder: players will continue to be discussing how classes or some other aspect of the game system can be improved or redesigned in the year 2074 and beyond that? I find the discussion fascinating...but at what point do...

Hi Minigiant! This is not too different from the Sidekick PC classes the Expert, the Spellcaster, and the Warrior. As a player acquires more familiarity with the game, the PCs can transition to one of the thirteen classes. It works well and is a nice way to turn D&D into a beginner-friendly...

Or, perhaps both options? That way people could pick the option they prefer.

Well, I will weigh in here cautiously as I am not that committed -- merely thinking out loud: there is reasonable concern that the law of unintended consequences might make a new psionic system independent of the spell system possibly (especially in multi-classing situations) result in...

As someone who has long-waited for the psionicist or similar class to appear (and in fact I have not entirely given up hope), I have found my thinking gradually changing over the past couple years. I think my principle reluctance with the sorcerer option is that there are still material...

I love this idea for a thread and I have enjoyed reading the journeys from those who have shared. Thanks, G Ban 007 for getting the ball rolling. 1980: My first experiences with D&D were actually live-action. I was six and the neighbor across the street who had the AD&D books as well as...

Hi Grimm Goose. I like your contributions, but -- based on my experience and understanding -- I am going to have to go with Shardstone on this one. I have always experienced my role as DM to be one of creating a consistent and fun world precisely through editing what player options are...

For what it's worth (in this case, $10), all three new core books are to be labeled at $50 (probably $49.99). I am surprised at the antipathy directed toward the 2014 DMG, but one's experience is one's experience. Some of the points here are good. It always amazes me how refined some of the...

An adventure that takes PCs to Eberron was just published this very month (May). A sourcebook for Eberron was published years ago while Greyhawk has only appeared in Ghosts of Saltmarsh and is now finally going to be addressed as a campaign setting in the revised DMG. I think they'll eventually...

Ok, those are awesome!

Well said. When my daughter was young, she loved making lists of everything. Heck, even Walt Whitman loved to list things (although he didn't rank them). And you are right to indicate that it can highlight imbalances.

Hi Niklinna, I can't speak for others, but I thought you were being funny because, in my experience, the cartoon was never meant to be taken seriously. I was ten years old when it first came out and I had already been playing D&D for three years. I watched it every Saturday because it was so...

I think I can understand your frustration, Cellar, but it is the cover of a role-playing game book...and Top Gun is designed from conception to be a big-budget action thriller that is a sequel predicated upon its progenitor from the '80s...for how much substance is the audience looking (or even...

I like the overall empathy exhibited in this post. I know most people here likely think that they would be better than the people who have to answer to stockholders and boards and such, but decisions are made for reasons. Honestly, I am still shocked that the SRD will be carried over into the...