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I disagree. There was little climax for the RPG players, as most FR tables never faced or defeated Sammaster. He was mostly written about in lore. I don't like that Sammaster was killed off-screen in lore. I want the players to be able to fight him. If you and your players killed off...

I dunno, Necro. Nothing is perma-dead. A wish spell can undo a lich's destruction. So can a God or time travel. We're even getting a time-travel adventure DLC. As a DM, I bet you can imagine 3 more ways you could bring a lich back from destruction. IMO, Sammaster is too cool and iconic for new...

The below comments are not facts. They are only my rambling opinions, as a hardcore FR fan that embraced every edition and paradigm shift of the FR, and is NOT against exploring changes made during time-jumps. A martial "Warlord"/Military Leader has proven to be a popular character concept...

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I think this is a very interesting take. There are people who only want Wizards to publish generic Subclasses that are usable in any campaign. I get it. They are the Core Game publisher. Then there are concepts that BELONG in specific Campaign Settings. Other 3P products have thematic...

Not gonna lie. Looks like a Magic: The Gathering Spirit Dragon.

Wasn't there something mentioned about Spirit Dragons?

There are 9 Free Basic Maps that DMs can use without purchase, and all 9 have animated versions (the ship map is simple but very useful). Nonsubscribers will be able use the tool without purchases. They'll just get more options if they buy products with maps.

Half-elf has always been great mechanically, for instance, in 2E it was the most generous multi-classer. And yes, Tanis Half-elven was a wonderful character that inspired many people, including designers and storytellers. But even as a fan of mixed races, I did not like either the historical...

OK. Hear me out... What if the Arcane Archer could choose Int or Cha as it's secondary ability? It's not a book class like the Wizard so it doesn't have to be Int-based, and there are more Charisma arcane traditions than Int. (Wis seems too useful and not "arcane", but maybe it allows for a...

Right, and they aren't in the Core Monster Manual. Creature type would not have been a good way to organize the 2024 MM. They altered the creature types of many creatures to better balance out how many creatures belonged to each type. That would have been confusing to so many people who try to...

I am not reading it from beginning to end again. I am saying that alphabetical, in the way they have presented it, is the most helpful for actually looking creatures up. If a new DM sees a "succubus" and some "dretches" referenced in an adventure, they should be able to look up "Succubus" and...

Nope! Each dragon type is significantly different enough from other dragons that they can have their own book entry for their creature identity and culture, and the stat blocks in each entry are for the age variants. Slaads have one common cultural identity with multiple stat blocks. I feel the...

I don't really see that as a compelling argument. It takes the assumption that a new DM will assume there could be dragons of every color of the rainbow and beyond. They will see Black, then Blue, then no Brown? OK, so it's not every color of the rainbow. Let's look up the dragons in the dragon...

They moved away from adding traits in places not on the individual stat block. I think that is good. 1. One stat block for monster entry pages, and it is designed for easy Maps tool reference. 2. Not all dragons need to have the exact traits. For example, there are different age categories...

I don't get this argument. If you're a new DM, you don't have the context of prior editions to go off of, and you are reading the book for the first time. You will learn the layout of the book without being tripped up by the expectations set by older editions. If you start at the very...

I believe the 2024 books are intended to be the new baseline for the future, with the intent to bring new players into the fold now that D&D is blowing up in pop culture. With that need in mind, alphabetical by name is the best way to organize the book, so in the middle of a game when it is most...

Sure, in 2E, all Dark Sun PC's had a wild talent. However, there is no reason to assume the same will be the case for a 5e version of Dark Sun, to where PCs could not select a Core Origin feat. I would anticipate that it would be a common option, though!

Well, yeah, the entire game is about magic. But some people want psionics to be something that works just like magic but isn't magic. shrug. But if psionics are a huge power system with monsters and items to support it, the game would need to have psionics built into the very fabric of the core...

A psionics fan can justify any power as psionic because there are so many different fictions that portray it as such. Even creating matter and energy out of thin air, or spirit/soul stuff and outer planar/afterlife traveling. Because psionics is just magic seen through a different filter...