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Huh. I actually do tend to throw tons of consumables at my players. I wish they'd use them. I also tend to place a lot of interactive objects and environmental stuff. The bonus action throwing and pushing is just something that's fun in a video game but wouldn't be as good at the table...

I also think the abundance of magic items is there for players who feel they need "something to play for" after hitting the level cap fairly early in Act 3 as a lot of folks will. The crazy amount of late game items is a way of making players feel like their characters are improving without...

Yeah - even if nobody knows whether creators can use Astarion or Gale, there is plenty of BG3-related stuff that there's no doubt is fair game - Shar, Duke Ravenguard/Flaming Fist, Baldur's Gate, etc. Plus characters from the earlier games who appear in this one (avoiding spoilers) have also...

I'm not that surprised about the lack of a crunch book based on BG3, but I am surprised at the lack of digital-only adventures and fluff products based on it that seem like they would be no-brainers and relatively easy lifts. Like, where is "Karlach's Guide to Sexy Tieflings" and so forth, or...

Again, I hope you’re right. But of course your post, like all posts anyone has ever made, leaves me skeptical.

I agree with core rules and DNDbeyond being a big priority. But I think that will be separate thing from the SRD, which carries more complex legal questions.

From your post basically you doubt that.

Your suggestion about that leaves me skeptical. What I was hoping for, of course, is that someone had some actual info that I had missed.

Yeah that "It'll be 50 years for 2 years!" language they've been using is a more recent development that makes me think we might not get all the core books in 2024.

I hope you're right, but I'm skeptical. I can see DNDBeyond getting a free basic rules source that isn't actually an SRD in Creative Commons.

1E actually took 3 years to get all three core books out (MM in '77, PHB in '78, DMG in '79) but other than that, no, it's always been all three books in the same year. Not sure, however, if the print runs have ever been as big for the core books as these will be. P sure they haven't.

Yeah...I'm not holding my breath on that one. There was a two-year-plus lag between the 5E PHB release and the 5E SRD release.

Shouldn't this be viewed similarly to DND Next, though, as far as the extent of the playtesting?

The fact that we have seen zero UA yet for DMG or MM material makes me skeptical that we're getting those books this year (unless they've decided not to put them through UA).

I'm curious about the Vecna: Eve of Ruin situation, as it was discussed as being "the first adventure using the new rules" and definitely seems like it's coming this year - but the new DMG and MM might not be out this year? So Vecna uses "rules" that maybe won't have been published yet? I mean...

I will say, other questions aside, having read that article, those really aren't the 10 best paladin spells.

Last year, we had the release date for Keys from the Golden Vault (Feb 21) in November 2022.

Do we even know for sure that we're getting the new DMG and MM this year? I had thought that we were, but I see a fair amount of discussion suggesting maybe not?

...is it weird that we don't know any of them yet? Don't we pretty much always know when at least the next book coming out is scheduled to publish?

Forgot about Frozen Sick; agreed, it's quite good.