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I would say that it's important to keep in mind that farming tools (and presumably an appropriate proficiency) would certainly be expected to exist in your average fantasy-medieval setting; as would a fair number of others skills and tool proficiencies that aren't listed in the books. I would...

I think it's because the original origin story of owlbears was that they were artificially created through magic by mortals, rather than being an organism that either evolved naturally or was created by divine beings, depending on your favored creation narrative.

Yeah, ok, that's a fair point.

While it's partly my fault for using the word "value", what I intended to convey was "buying power". That is, lists that index the absolute value of the income to local costs. So, no, those aren't actually concerns - at least for what I was intending to communicate. For example, as...

Yeah, OP isn't entirely crazy as it sounds. You can find lists online of what the average income of people from the poorest countries make when converted to comparable buying power in your own country. The overwhelming majority of us first-worlders will find that such incomes wouldn't even...

Present but rare, usually inhabiting isolated primeval regions. Often in jungles, but sometimes deserts. Why deserts? I don't know - giant lizards seem to fit deserts in my psyche somehow. Usually are distant relatives of dragons - in the same sense that lemurs are distant relatives to...

Cadoc (Leaf) A rare succulent that only grows in temperate and arid conditions after a substantial rain; most frequently in alpine locations. The herb is about a hands length in height, with concentric rings of thick, spiky, triangular leaves that mature at approximately two to three fingers in...

Bards need to remain full casters in 5e; at least without VERY significant additional abilities to make up for it The fact of the matter is that although bards were not full casters in previous editions, spell scaling was also significantly different. Spells often scaled based on caster level...

Going back to the pilgrim theme, travelers or shipwreck survivors trying to build new lives in a foreign, hostile land. Possibly with non-combatants to defend. Will they clear territory of dangers or make alliances with local, sentient monsters?

This is intended. Crossbowman are... more or less generally acknowledged by pop medieval military historians to be inferior to skilled longbowmen. But much faster and easier to train. Military crossbows usually offer somewhat better penetration (damage) in exchange for a slower rate of fire...

It is an unfortunate pathology that many DMs default to "roll for it" when a PC attempts any task. In my experience, this results in a host of inappropriate outcomes, such as the skilled mountain climber randomly falling off a normal cliff face; or the brain damaged troll knowing more about the...

Valor Bards can sub out one of those attacks for a cantrip (e.g. Eldritch Blast or True Strike); Dance bards cannot. And the only way I'm personally seeing Dance bards get that 4th attack is using a level or feat to get weapon mastery and THEN presuming an enemy gets within 5 feet and even THEN...

Eh, Dance bard's ability to help an ally move on reaction or give initiative bonuses isn't COMPLETELY worthless, but....Valor bard mostly steals its lunch money.

Nor, I think, do many DMs. Speaking for myself, given the latitude I typically give Divine-using players in interpreting their vision of a deity's teaching, it rarely comes up. And when it does, it usually results from an egregious disconnect between a player's understanding of the game world...

Yeah, that's never going to see the light of day in any game I ever run. Along with warlocks working in direct and obvious opposition to their patrons.

Nothing wrong with that house rule. And in fact the very first coins were supposedly made of electrum, so there's a bit of historical angle. Prolly makes gold seem a bit more valuable from the players' perspective which isn't a bad thing IMO. There are or could easily be things like...

Primarily 1) because the players in my weekly game don't all have the 2024 books yet and I'm not comfortable pressuring them into buying said books as of yet. And 2) because the 2024 Monster Manual isn't out yet and I want to see how the monsters and monster creation rules stack up against the...

Having digested the book a bit more, some more thoughts: Happy to see magic item creation rules. Positive thoughts about magic items and tables mostly: I like the selection of common magic items - good balance of fun and useful without presenting balance issues. They subdivide magic item...

It's more the design philosophy behind it that bothers me. Availability of those healing spells is strongly campaign and party-dependent. (As should be the presence or commonness of the River Styx for that matter). While that is a fairly thematic effect...and very good incentive to avoid the...

Sounds pretty funny at least