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I love the new stat block in general; it's fun and easier to use. But it's weird to me that rakshasas no longer have a way to magically coerce anyone: no charm/dominate person, no suggestion. They don't even have Persuasion proficiency, relying solely on Deception.

Monsters have always had skill Expertise in 5e, and it's never been called out as such in stat blocks. With the 2024 MM, some monsters now also have Proficiency or even Expertise in Initiative; I'm pretty certain the aboleth isn't the first stat block we've seen with it.

First: There is no Medium difficulty in 2024. You're referring to Moderate; they deliberately changed the naming. And it's not about the numbers, it's about the guidance given to DMs on the meanings of the difficulty levels. Seriously, read the written definitions in both versions. What you're...

But that's because what's now called Moderate used to be called Hard. My point was that Moderate and Medium are not synonymous when comparing 2024 and 2014. Look at the language defining the difficulty levels. What you'll find is that: 2014 Easy doesn't exist in 2024 (or is included as the very...

I don't think they were uninformed; what you relayed about color printing being done in Canada for sale in the US does appear to be correct for comic books. Assuming some high level of tariffs remain in place, comic book publishers, distributors, retailers, and customers are going get hit real hard.

Last year they announced dropping Penguin Random House as their distributor, moving to a selection of other distributors for D&D products (Alliance, Diamond (eek!), GTS, etc.). As part of that change, D&D products are apparently now classified (at least by Amazon) as "games" rather than "books"...

These comparisons are invalid. A tipoff is that the terms for encounter difficulty have changed from 2014 to 2024; 2024's "Moderate" is not 2014's "Medium" (there is no "Medium" in 2024), it's equivalent to 2014's "Hard". To make some valid comparisons: 2014 - 10th level, 4 characters, Medium...

If I'm interpreting that correctly, it seems like tabletop games (aside from playing cards) aren't on the list yet?

I haven't run them yet, but have several planned starting points for various Companies: Standard D&D intro: at The Pike and Eel ("Dragon-stones in Lake-town", homebrew AiME adventure) mainly for player-heroes from eastern Wilderland At the Market Green in Woodmen-town, preparing to journey to...

(Trying to avoid making this a political discussion...) I'm curious about the likely commercial effects on TTRPG sales from recently announced tariffs. As a timely example, consider the impending release of the revised 5e Monster Manual; WotC's books for Canadian customers are printed in the...

This concern doesn't seem relevant for the case at hand. WotC can't claim intellectual ownership of Giant Eagles, Celestial or otherwise. You'd have a point if the Celestial Giant Eagles had been renamed.

Well, they're correcting an error. Giant eagles and the like were Magical Beasts in 3e; when 5e didn't include that monster type, intelligent and communicative animals should've been classified as something other than Beasts.

But there's a fundamental difference between Magic and Warhammer on one side, and D&D on the other. Magic and Warhammer have multiple competitive formats, and those formats are stricter than what a TTRPG uses because they're competitive. If you want to play Magic or Warhammer in different ways...

Yes; those are summaries. But look, there's more; whole books and boxed sets of stuff! Planes of Conflict (2e) - Wizards of the Coast | Planescape | AD&D 2nd Ed. | AD&D 2nd Ed. | Dungeon Masters Guild Planes of Law (2e) - Wizards of the Coast | Planescape | AD&D 2nd Ed. | AD&D 2nd Ed. |...

This is a really good point, and I'd argue was valid... until the publication of Planescape. The whole point of that product line was to make every part of the Great Wheel multiverse adventurable, and I'd argue that the difficulty of doing so with some areas required stretching creative muscles...

Come on, they didn't do anything of the sort. No one "pretended" anything. 5e D&D kept several elements of the planar cosmology from 4e just like they kept some other lore and mechanics from 4e, mixed in with stuff from other editions as they clearly said they were doing from the beginning of...