Search results

Well, that depends on how many fewer units and how much higher a price. If they convert 100,000 users to 2024 at $19.99 but they would have converted only 60,000 users at $29.99, they're better off at the lower price point. Whatever the price is will be determined by what existing users are...

I didn't speculate on subscription access and the VTT add ons, which is where I think the attempts to increase monetization will come in. This is more about getting adoption of the 2024 Core rules as quickly as possible, and everything else builds off of that.

Yes, this is strictly about pricing on D&D Beyond.

Pure speculation here, but thought it might make for an interesting discussion since this will be the first time that a Core rules revision will be available in a digital format from the start, and with a huge user base. Here's what I'm guessing for the PHB, which is based on believing that...

A Mastermind Rogue can be an excellent party face, just have her take her expertise in persuasion and deception (and then insight and investigation at level 6 for additional utility in this type of campaign). If the other rogue went the more traditional thieves tools/stealth/slight of hand...

Yes. Taking a DM break to play my final 2014 PC from now till September and then will be spinning up a new campaign for my group with the new PHB rules in October/November. Looking forward to it all!

Taking a DM break and my wife is going to run Frostmaiden for us and now follow it up with Eve of Ruin! Don't think I'll run again until the new PHB is out, giving me plenty of time to develop my next home brew world.

I had tried to read the books years ago but couldn't get thru the first one. After the second season of the show finished I was hooked enough to give the books another try, and am now halfway thru book 4 and will likely finish the series before the next season of the show comes out. I've found...

Ha, to each their own, I'm loving both WoT and RoP on Amazon. Some of the best fantasy TV I've ever seen.

Exactly.

I've had the same experience with Beastmaster Rangers and some of my players. So I added a 3rd level ability called Beast Sanctuary. Can be used once per day and lasts 24 hours. When your bestial companion would drop to 0 HP, it drops to 1 instead, is magically teleported to a demi-plane and...

I'm really intrigued about the new encounter builder they are developing for the DMG. The current builder really only has a couple of levers (Monster XP, Party Level, and size of each force), but I'm wondering if they might try and do something more granular like the way that building your own...

I don't have a dog in this hunt (though I've found that CR of 2x party level is about the highest that can be dealt with reliably, even with above average optimization, level appropriate magic items and fight specific gear), but I'd be super curious as to how the above changes if the Troll goes...

One of the great things about the playtest is that it's sparked ideas for house rules for me. I ran with this rule, but tweaked it so that monster crits recharge any expended powers of the monsters (not much at low levels, but becomes increasingly scary at higher levels). I think the reason...

Failure is an opportunity for heroics.

Well, they did add the ability to expend spell slots to Wildshape at level 5, giving you 11 Wildshapes w/o a short rest at that level. And given the popularity of Doric shifting to an Owlbear in the movie and the popularity of the Owlbear Druid form in BG3, I'd be willing to bet that Owlbears...

This! The first campaign I ran in 5e had 2 full martials and a half-caster Ranger, went to level 20 with no issue, and I didn't have to pull any punches. The 2nd campaign I ran had 3 full casters (Cleric, Druid, Wizard) and 2 full martials, also went to level 20 and the party consistently...

Have said this before, but I still think the best solution for Moon Druids is to keep the CR range the same as all Druids, but give them ways to make those better. More Temp HP, Enlarge (first 1 step, then 2), more Temp HP, AC bumps, Damage bumps, proficiency bumps, stat bumps, etc. You'll...

My prediction for the next 10 years is that D&D will continue to be the dominant Medieval/Renaissance Fantasy role playing system as a new generation starts playing the game, but that a smart company will use the 5e CC license to create a Sci-Fantasy (Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Star Wars...

I'm of the mind that popularity of classes and species is a far less useful metric than player satisfaction. With 13 Classes and a billion species to choose from, of course some are going to be far more popular than others, but the point is, do the less popular choices satisfy those that choose...