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The arcanaloth's 2014 hit points were artifically low due to the design thinking at the time, in which weapon damage resistance would compensate. They've learned the (obvious, in hindsight) lesson that it doesn't, and brought HP up to where they should've been. You're right on about the...

The 2014 Deception and Insight bonuses were errors; there was no way to derive them from ability scores and proficiency/expertise. (There were a number of these errors in the 2014 MM, many of which were fixed in errata, but not the arcanaloth's.) The change to Arcana is a surprise, though; they...

Based on published errata, you'd be objectively wrong about that.

Multiple attacks is not the same as 3e's iterative attacks. Aside from the time-wasting low BAB on successive attacks, the main problem was the Full Attack requirement to use the iterative attacks, which locked down movement and turned combat into a boring slog. Note that neither 5e (nor 4e)...

It has nothing to do with short memories; I think you're missing the real argument, which others have made in this thread. Obviously 5e owes a lot of its design to lessons learned from 3e and 4e. And it is, overall, similar to 3e in a lot of ways, but it's like a 3e designed in an alternate...

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I love the new stat block in general; it's fun and easier to use. But it's weird to me that rakshasas no longer have a way to magically coerce anyone: no charm/dominate person, no suggestion. They don't even have Persuasion proficiency, relying solely on Deception.

Monsters have always had skill Expertise in 5e, and it's never been called out as such in stat blocks. With the 2024 MM, some monsters now also have Proficiency or even Expertise in Initiative; I'm pretty certain the aboleth isn't the first stat block we've seen with it.

First: There is no Medium difficulty in 2024. You're referring to Moderate; they deliberately changed the naming. And it's not about the numbers, it's about the guidance given to DMs on the meanings of the difficulty levels. Seriously, read the written definitions in both versions. What you're...

But that's because what's now called Moderate used to be called Hard. My point was that Moderate and Medium are not synonymous when comparing 2024 and 2014. Look at the language defining the difficulty levels. What you'll find is that: 2014 Easy doesn't exist in 2024 (or is included as the very...

I don't think they were uninformed; what you relayed about color printing being done in Canada for sale in the US does appear to be correct for comic books. Assuming some high level of tariffs remain in place, comic book publishers, distributors, retailers, and customers are going get hit real hard.

Last year they announced dropping Penguin Random House as their distributor, moving to a selection of other distributors for D&D products (Alliance, Diamond (eek!), GTS, etc.). As part of that change, D&D products are apparently now classified (at least by Amazon) as "games" rather than "books"...

These comparisons are invalid. A tipoff is that the terms for encounter difficulty have changed from 2014 to 2024; 2024's "Moderate" is not 2014's "Medium" (there is no "Medium" in 2024), it's equivalent to 2014's "Hard". To make some valid comparisons: 2014 - 10th level, 4 characters, Medium...

If I'm interpreting that correctly, it seems like tabletop games (aside from playing cards) aren't on the list yet?

I haven't run them yet, but have several planned starting points for various Companies: Standard D&D intro: at The Pike and Eel ("Dragon-stones in Lake-town", homebrew AiME adventure) mainly for player-heroes from eastern Wilderland At the Market Green in Woodmen-town, preparing to journey to...