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This post isn't a jab at folks who are discussing the news item alluded to in the thread title. I just wanted to comment on the story without posting in a thread that inadvertently publicizes the rich dude in question. If you're not familiar with the news item I'm referencing, it's essentially...

Trails and Tribulations The Forgotten Realms trail guide I’m writing includes overviews of hundreds of locations in Faerun, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara. Prior to the release of the 2024 edition of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, I wasn’t sure how much detail I wanted to include when describing these...

Sounds like a reasonable guess. I would add Bryn Shander as the hub for Iceland Dale.

Plot twist: Strahd is the OSR DM of Barovia, and he's about to go full grognard on "the kids these days."

Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen the original Friday the 13th.

Same thing happened to me. I used to see most of the rules, but now they're gone. And here I thought I was finally going to get some use out of D&D Beyond. Oh well, back to pen and paper it is. I guess they didn't really want my eyeballs after all.

I can appreciate what you're saying. If I wasn't trying to publish something that might reference content not included in the Free Rules, I'd have a hard time justifying my purchase. I spend more on each of these rulebooks than I have to spend on food in an average week, so I need them to be...

You called it. Since the rules are so short, I wish WotC had just kept them in the PHB like they did in 2014, but at least there aren't any surprises.

I purchased the physical book to keep on a bookshelf, but I'm glad this resource exists. While the Free Rules aren't as good as getting a PDF, they at least provide a way to search the majority of the rules content when I just need to quickly review something. That saves me from putting...

I picked up a hard copy the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide on its release day yesterday. I've been perusing the Greyhawk section of the book, studying the presentation style used therein. Once I've digested that info a bit, I'll decide if I want to change any of my trail guide's formatting to more...

I haven't seen anyone telling people what species to include in their home games. As far as I can tell, publishing Greyhawk with X major species isn't imposing any idea on others, no matter what value one picks for X.

Page 177 of the 2024 PHB has a list of features that all backgrounds have, but it does not have any rules players can use to pick new values for those features. In most cases, it's easy enough to figure out, but that's not the same as having an actual, explicit rule. Case in point: The actual...

I don't think we're in disagreement. In the post you responded to, I was attempting to make the exact same point you just made. In 2024, the DM explains what background options are available, not all of which are listed in the PHB. The DMG has rules for the many options the DM can provide.

I must not be explaining myself clearly, because I agree that DMs are able to offer custom backgrounds as additional background options. I'm not arguing that custom backgrounds don't exist in the 2024 ruleset. I'm simply observing that those rules are in the DMG, not the PHB. The only reason I...

That's not text encouraging players to collaborate with the DM to create custom backgrounds. That's text encouraging players to ask the DM what background options the DM offers. There's no rule suggesting the DM make custom backgrounds available by default the way the DM in your hypothetical...

Nothing in the PHB tells players to talk to the DM about customizing backgrounds.

I must have missed the custom background question in the UA surveys. I seem to recall being asked to rate the overall background rules in the playtest on a sliding scale, but that's about it.

I'm not seeing what's unfortunate about players who want to be passively entertained finding DMs who want to tell stories to passive players. I haven't met players and DMs like that, so I can't speak for them, but it sounds like it should be a win-win situation when they game together.

Just dropping in today with a short progress report. Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been making incremental progress on a few large tasks: I’ve nearly completed thirty settlement write-ups, and I’ve added more roads and trails to my regional maps to go with the handful of major trade routes...