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The next Monster Manual is to me very interesting in many ways. First off: monsters are easiest to design and use. Almost every fandom has had someone enthusiastically make stat blocks for a BBEG, or for 600+ Pokémon. There are also multitudes of 3rd party monster books. Kobold Press books are...

We already got erratas, and this definitely is more than patching a few things up. Then again… looking at the results so far I can understand why you say that. There are less changes than I expected, and then again more than I wanted. Let’s wait and see what the books are like.

At the risk of derailing this thread, what is so bad about their polytheism? I have never heard this was a problem before, and I am curious what I could improve about if for my own campaigns.

Wow! Interesting to see the numbers on this poll! I’m actually excited to get to use some new books, while still being able to use my old ones with it. Most important to me is the community around it.

I have had the pleasure of finishing 4 campaigns as a DM, and I have gotten a lot better at giving them a proper ending. The key is calling back to earlier moments in the campaign, and giving the players the final agency. For instance, my finale of the Theros campaign had the champions of the...

I am fully expecting BG3 to have done wonders, but can we say the OGL didn’t have a meaningful lasting impact? Or do we not have info for that?

You mean the most successful business and online marketplace of D&D products? Whatever happens, I am willing to bet they make more money off of this than their sales after kickstarters.

More diplomatic in that he’s being very vague. “It got worse after Mike’s departure.” And that Baldur’s Gate 3 is more what he envisions D&D to be. I am not sure what he means by that, but I can see people are already happy to fill in these statements with their own opinions. Has anyone found...

Yes of course, because it took place in that setting. I just don’t think I’ve seen as much talk about the blood war as about whether Astarion is a good guy or a bad guy. The characters made people care, not the lore. Same as our games; players care about lore that effects their PC, rarely much...

Let’s be fair, that is not about the lore. They cared about hot characters with decent story arcs.

Why do people care so much about some crusty settings? To me the lore is what happens at the table, or what is required to make the game better. It differs from campaign to campaign. Sometimes WotC lore inspires me, sometimes it doesn’t, and I take what I like. Are people who started playing...

Exactly! Last year was so strange when it came to the releases, with 3-4 releases in such short notice that I couldn’t get excited about any of them. And now they keep saying “oh, this celebration isn’t so much about a bang, it is about a year and a half of carefully spaced releases…”

Yeah it hasn’t been an explosive start, for sure. It’s hard to be excited for their celebration when so much appears to have pushed back release dates. I don’t have any nostalgia, so all those old settings or whatever wouldn’t have done anything for me anyway. It’s like the 5e rules; the...

I’m gonna call it 5e25 then. That probably won’t bother anyone ;)

The little bit of data we have is that CR content could be one of the worst selling books. I know we all have hunches, but it doesn’t quite appear that CR is a plus for selling TTRPG books compared to WotC’s regular content.

We’ll probably not see that in the PHB, though! I am very skeptical about them fixing how badly monsters scale in the higher tiers (they become pushovers) and how the CR system works. It does look like the latest books have monsters who are a bit stronger, but as usual it is only lower tier...

Let’s be fair, they have had a decade of testing. Right now the game is fun, the most succesful TTRPG ever, and the rules work. All they have to do is not break it, give it a polish and use what they learned from a decade of publishing content for the system. Obviously, everyone is going to...

3 hours is the sweet spot for a weekday for me. On a weekday you can’t ask more than that or people zone out. If you don’t get much done during a session you have a few options. One of them is to just accept that this is how the group plays. It’s not fun if a group doesn’t engage with your...

Well, there are no adventures with as long a development time as this one with as much playtesters, so it makes sense.

Why are we looking at 3.5e or older editions? I don’t see the relevance. This has its own math and progression. Are we trying to use their encounter building rules?