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It's super interesting to see such a dichotomy of opinions on subclasses being over- or underpowered. I'm curious if those who feel that the subclasses are overpowered are DMs while those who think they're underpowered are players...?

Interesting. I had read/watched other reviews that touched upon the mechanical options being out of balance, but they seemed to imply that they were possibly on the overpowered side of things. Granted, I could have completely misinterpreted what the reviews said.

Oh? Interesting. I've been out of that game for a while now. I still remember the American Hasbro Transformers being absolute crap for the longest time, when they were trying to "simplify" the transformations because they apparently thought American kids couldn't figure out conversions that...

WizKids' pricing is definitely elevated since the pandemic, but even considering a reasonable reduction in price to what it probably would have been prior to the supply chain issues, it still would be well above $100. And it's kinda funny to me see American Transformers used as a contrast to...

That's fair. I don't actually expect them to make a Tiamat even remotely to the right scale, but I think we'd be getting a relatively small looking Tiamat if it were "only" $100. LOL Plus, I think they'd have to make it look pretty decent if they were going to do it at all. These figures are...

No way Tiamat is only $100 unless it's not remotely to scale. The Tiamat mini from WizKids is $400 MSRP and would be too small to be at scale with these figures. LOL

That's pretty cool. I like the aesthetic a lot. Is that just a frontend JavaScript app or is there backend server component to it as well? Just curious as someone in the web app development space.

I don't think I've heard of this Adventure in a Box series before. It sounds like basically WizKids' answer to the Epic Encounters series by Steamforged...? Sounds pricier, though...?

Since the enumerated maximum hit points in stat blocks are a convenience and the expectation is that many DMs roll for monster hit points, the feature description would need to account for that possibility rather than making the assumption that the consumer would stick with the "typical" hit...

I picked up the game store exclusive cover to both support my FLGS and support Wizards' investment in this sort of material, despite being pretty certain ahead of time (and having already confirmed after reading through since) that I would likely never use any of this material as-is in any of my...

I'd think that if they had made the deliberate decision to never mention those places again—especially if it was for reasons strongly tied to those behind many of the other cultural related changes—they would have updated that in the newest printings of those books?

Is it actually useful, though, to reference a part of the Forgotten Realms that has no published material for this version of the game? Sure, the old boxed sets exist, and you could go to DM's Guild and buy some stuff, but for all intents and purposes to the mainstream general audience, it's...

It’s ultimately for ease of use. It’s very straightforward to just have a monster regenerate practically all of its health when it reaches 0, tack on a few special abilities appropriate for its existing challenge rating, and then double the XP. The alternative is not nearly as straightforward...

I just received the new starter set in the mail today, and while I admittedly have not even remotely read through every paragraph of the two books inside, I did flip through all of the pages and quickly skim across. I did not see any stat blocks or references to any of the characters, so it...

I'm more interested in learning more about these 6" Dungeons & Dragons action figures they're talking about putting into the cube.

I'd certainly welcome additional mind flayer inspiration. I have never been able to really leverage them to their full extent in a campaign before, but one of my groups is now fully engaged with a fledgling mind flayer colony led by an ulitharid. They got to face off against some homebrewed...

I suppose if you're gonna play a Pokemon, you could do a lot worse. ;)

I'm curious how this one compares in size to the Loot Crate one I got years back...

I would think that given they own D&D Beyond now, it would be a great avenue to solicit feedback and gather data around playtesting, like you said. Some Unearthed Arcana could be challenging to code—the Strixhaven cross-class archetypes is more or less the one example of this—but the...

One of the creatures illustrated in the preview image from Barlowe's Guide kinda looks like the old LJN AD&D 1E Roper toy from the 80's. https://www.lulu-berlu.com/upload/image/advanced-dungeons---dragons---ljn-tsr-adventure-figures---the-raging-roper-p-image-396475-grande.jpg