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Crucible is still in playtesting and not ready to run yet. However, one of the stretch goals that was unlocked was a Crucible Starter Adventure! It will be an experience that will be a set up experience to the full Ember storyline—will be a good introduction to the system. Even though the live...

I watched the 4 episodes on Glass Cannon Network playing Ember. The system looks amazing! (And the series is hilarious and awesome.) There's only a few hours left to support this Kickstarter if anyone is tempted. I snagged it myself. I'm really excited about it!

I felt the same when I gave passionate and repeated feedback about turning Inspiration into a feature that can be achieved through feats and species instead of remaining a DM award for good roleplaying. That ship sailed, and my voice was not influential.

I ran the last 1/3 of War of the Burning Sky from EN World. I dropped them into it when they were around 12th level or so and took them up to 20. It was pretty epic.

Yes! I'm running a Champions adventure right now. Latest version, Hero System 6e. My players are getting a kick out of it because it's so different from your typical d20 systems.

I think Shadow of the Demon Lord has a pretty cool initiative system. First, each player chooses a fast or slow action as well as enemies. Then fast actions are adjudicate first with players always going first, then slow actions are adjudicated with players always going before enemies. Within...

Looks interesting. What’s the system like? Level of crunch? How does it compare to Lancer?

I use Inspiration in almost every game session. I hand it out consistently for good roleplaying or clever strategies. So the fact that they have watered that down and nerfed that practice by automatically giving it to humans every day (and via the Musician feat) really pisses me off. So my table...

I think the point of the article was that it set up a struggle between changing or not changing, it triggered a mindset of for or against which they want to avoid. They could have avoided it by encouraging change without forcing it in the tool set. People don’t like to be pushed into changing.

Seems you did not read closely. I just checked it because what you said was the exact opposite of what I read. "All the monsters found in the 2014 Monster Manual will also still be available for use in the toolset. These materials will be marked with a Legacy badge if there are newer versions...

Rascal has released an interesting take on the topic of this thread. Edition Wars have made a battleground of D&D Beyond

You have evidence they were planning to release updated monsters for free? Or you are just hypothesizing? They aren't releasing all updated 2024 classes for free on DDB from the PH so I'm not sure your guess here is accurate that they would have released all updated monsters for free. That said...

Ironically, we agree on player agency. I don't want to pull the rug out from under my players by telling them the spells on their character sheet changed to 2024. But I also don't want to have to spend extra labor to homebrew existing standard spells and magic items for them to keep what they...

Oh is that right? Many spells have been nerfed? I got the impression from the WotC defenders of this decision in this thread that all the spells were all "better." I would imagine then in many cases that players would be upset to discover their favorite spell was nerfed if they were forced to...

And then the secret subtext is "Players will love having powered up spells! Many of them heal more and do more damage! Cool for players right?" "Yeah, screw the DMs. Challenge Ratings are already only vague approximations so if we throw off CR calculations that DMs are already using, who...

Off-topic, but I'm with you, friend, on Heroic Inspiration! But I will never award Heroic Inspiration daily for being humans so my players will either never choose to be human because I took away a benefit from them--or I'll have to come up with an equal but different ability to give them. I'm...

This is misleading. They would NOT have been available on character sheets unless you homebrew them.

Well! The uproar actually worked! Last night at 11:30pm, DDB posted on Twitter.

For sure!