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I'm in the same boat. And one thing that I did use (even if it was a mess) that has gone is the monster creation guidance (either that or I just missed it). I think that's been put where it actually belongs - in the Monster Manual. Those of us who were at London ComicCon the weekend before...

So am I. But not that the cats are adventurers unless what they are trying to loot is glasses off tables.

Actually making the statblocks functional is one of the best improvements to D&D in the past 35 years. I mean I don't think that in reality anyone wants the sheer drivel that was the 2e Monstrous Manual back however much reading it makes them feel like they are a teenager again. I mean here's...

And if the restaurant made a new contract for fish after 25 years leading to regular food poisoning outbreaks and then stopped serving fish after 35 years you might remain irritated after 50 years. But it's not going to do much good.

Nope. If we are part of a team and I create a 5'*5'*2" board of plywood in front of you to conceal you you probably know better than to touch it, especially if I've created a gap at your eye level. There's nothing saying you can't create an object in someone's space or they must touch it...

Just thought I'd cut in there because Glyph is incredibly situational. It's easy to overlook the part of the spell that says: If the surface or object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken, and the spell ends without being triggered. Which means either...

Which is why you need a good DMG. Critical Role has over 1.2 million followers on Twitch and their biggest episode has over 20 million views on YouTube with multiple episodes with over 5 million views. Critical Role is a much bigger deal than ENWorld (with 200,000 members). Remember that the...

Not long I think. A level 6 ward should be able to take 16hp (2x wizard level + Int (+4)) before popping, which is roughly a single hit. A 2014 CR2 ogre does 13 damage on average on a hit. Per turn at no significant cost, wizards not having a lot of uses for bonus actions. And no, melee can't...

You mean with the ward? I'd definitely put them below the Illusionist who can use a bonus action to provide someone with concealment every turn. The collected sneaks (rangers and rogues). Ghosting splits the party or is solipsistic, Dex 14 is ultra-common, and ranged damage is low while...

Are we talking improvising or worldbuilding here? And I would say that the Dungeon Master's Guide should be written from the perspective that this is not the case. It should be written with the goal that a group of kids have only heard of D&D decide to try to use it, the PHB, and possibly the...

There's more than one way to build a world - and the "grow it around the PCs" approach works, especially for shorter campaigns. Which is why the 2024 DMG spends significant time on that. It's the approach that lets them get down to the business of DMing. And it also suggests using a prebuilt...

Much as I love warlocks this is really overrating the GOOlock. Pact Magic means they level out of Dissonant Whispers in a way bards don't. A, possibly even B tier. Don't see the 'serker as notably better than the zealot. Not enough to justify a tier gap Also best anti-invis team players (my...

I'm going to propose that no wizard is below B tier and no artificer below A tier for one very simple reason: Every other class wants to dump intelligence and Investigation and Arcana are top tier skills and history is useful. In detail: Artificers: Artillerist: S tier: dat force field...

The PHB is improved with better balance, stronger concepts, and less caster supremacy. It's still a greatest hits album - but moves from a 6/10 to a 7/10 for me. The DMG is vastly better than the 2014 version and actually starts out by teaching people how to run a game - and doesn't teach them...

If you're used to 3.X, all I can say is "this is nowhere near that bad" and that you're suffering from nostalgia goggles. The benchmark 5e class and the one that barely changed from 2014 to 2024 is the wizard. And a 5e wizard gains power significantly less fast than their 3.X equivalents, having...

The point is that with the Wild Heart (unlike Totem Warrior) you don't choose on a character basis. You choose on a daily basis in character. Climb is kinda useful but easily used while swim is really useful on the rare times you need it. But with just a little planning you can work out when...

And I'm pointing out that 5.24 is just being 100% unambiguous about something that has been true for 42 years of D&D's 50 year history (50 years really because 3.0 and 3.5 did a wonderful job of proving why the approach simply doesn't work). And that this is very much the game D&D has almost...

Or to put things another way the job of the rules isn't to make the world make sense; that's the job of the DM. The job of the rules is to make the world accessible and give the players agency.

Wildheart 6 honestly isn't bad - you can switch between the three options on a long rest. Swim would be a waste of a pick because it's situational but having a back pocket swim speed for that rare adventure is useful.

Only in the 3.x era. In the AD&D era almost everyone was an 0th level character - which wasn't something that was PC facing. 2000-2007 is the aberration. And the NPC classes made a complete mockery of the meaning of "level". D&D Rules are not a physics engine, they are a User Interface. And the...