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I totally see it, too - especially since I don't play AL and don't care about the PHB+1 rule. Since that seems to be the reasoning behind the reinclusion, I doubt you'll have to worry about duplicated stat blocks like that. It's still fun to speculate about what will get reincluded even if I...

But the swashbuckler, as you say, is already quite popular, and aside from some feats it doesn't seem like there will be much in XGtE that they would/could use. Bringing them over would just further push them to the fore of options (about which the pessimist in me says "that sounds like...

If they're copying material for the AL's PHB+1 rule, then it would make sense to include the subclasses that would gain the most from additional support. I suspect that would be the spell using classes: Arcana cleric, crown paladin, undying warlock, and bladesinger wizard.

I'd bet the bladesinger before the monks, to take advantage of new spells - and I bet they'll reprint the few spells from SCAG, too.

Which one of you is Guy Fieri, trying to take this forum to Flavortown? :-P

I doubt we'll get "rambling." I'd say think along the lines of Volo's chapters about races' ecology and lairs. Don't know what Xanathar's will be for sure - I've speculated geopolitics in Waterdeep and/or the Sword Coast, as well as the planes/Far Realm. Based on them farming the Mystic and...

I'm starting to see some possible plot points/adventure locations if this is the case. Chosen of Ubtao (the deceiver, whose symbol is the maze) had to survive an ordeal within the temple that was never specified. I bet it was some sort of maze dungeon. Ras Nsi was exiled there and maybe still is...

But it still has to be things he would generally know about for him to leave the occasional comment on. Volo (to my limited knowledge) is a researcher, who went out and researched the monsters and their ecologies (or at least that was the hypothetical premise). Xanathar's not going out to...

Xanathar is the head of the Waterdeep Thieves guild, right? If Volo's Guide to Monsters allegedly presented that character's knowledge on the subject stated, then wouldn't it make sense to get Xanathar's commentary on things he knows about? That would mean illicit operations, factions and...

The New D&D Adventure Is - Tomb of Annihilation! "Any DM worth his salt"... That expression bothers me. Any DM worth his salt could come up with his own adventure with the players hunting down pieces of a Macguffin in various parts of the multiverse to destroy a super planar threat. Why...

Not looking at the books, but I think they find out or can find out when the dragon horn begins blowing. All dragons know where to go to get to it, so the metallic dragon at the council could tell you which direction. (Again, don't have the book in front of me, so don't string me up if I'm wrong.)

There's a full campaign about this that was published via Kickstarter a while back called "Roslof Keep." It's really written for 1e but has a (I'd say poor) 5e conversion built in. A mad lich made a dungeon machine that stocks itself, rearranges itself, and so on. The area around it has turned...

Your way would likely speed things up, but I feel like it would generate confusion. "I want to do this thing so that X will benefit from it" except they don't remember that X, even though he hasn't posted yet, will actually be going before them. You'd need a clear initiative tracker. I use...

I think you could still be lawful evil and serve a good dragon. You follow orders and work within the hierarchy, but you only care about your survival and advancement within that hierarchy.

But Red Hand of Doom is all about goblinoid armies. Of course, you could re-skin that to be humanoids using kobolds to bring it more in line with the Cult of the Dragon in Rise of Tiamat. I like the ideas presented by the Hack and Slash blog about dividing up the cult into factions for each...

That's what I was starting to look into (a long time ago when I first had this idea), but I never quite figured it out. Obviously the last one - it's where you go storm Tiamat's fortress, kill a bunch of dragons and then her. I never figured out how many leading into that I needed because I got...

It's been some time since I looked at it, and I never read the full level 1-30 campaign, but it's about the cosmological war between Tiamat/chromatics and Bahamut/metallics as they were split from the single dragon god. It ends with the party hunting down Tiamat in a giant dungeon complex and...

For this setting? They've got 20+ (or are working toward it... I think they've currently got 17) that have been converted from d20 or the independently created Arcanis RPG and that are available for free. Apologies for not having a link right now to share.

There are two $50 pledges. One gets you a physical and a PDF copy of the book and that's it. The other $50 pledge is all PDFs, including the following: - Core book - Sorcerous Pacts - Blessed Lands region sourcebook - Disciples of Heresy lorebook with adventures - digital version of Arcanis...

I've also looked into the DM's Guild adventure Palace of the Red Pasha as a segue between Rise of Tiamat and Scales of War. The party is tasked with ending the cult once and for all (and ideally ending Tiamat), so they track down a major base of operations in Calimport. At the end of the...