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You mean "5.24e"? ;)

Tie-ins are more important for games with micro-transactions (like Idle Heroes of the Forgotten Realms and MMOs like Neverwinter).

I think the DMG will come out second, because it will include player-usable rewards like magic items and advisory rules like Encounter Building, to actually run the game. The Monster Manual is the one that is the least player-facing, and is therefore the least required for the table as a whole...

I think there is room for Cha and Con to work together, just like Monk needs Dex and Wis, but a SAD class that only needs Con? That's not going to work. That is too SAD.

Now I could get behind Sam Reich if he had the capital and never went public. Having shareholders (who aren't fans) is not a good thing for the game.

NOPE. Wizards doesn't have a monopoly on being terribad.

My aversion to point-buy species helps me understand a little better why others don't like picking and choosing bestial abilities for Wildshape templates. But it's the assigning of point values to individual abilities that rubs me the wrong way. People aren't necessarily going to agree on the...

Is the intent of this ability to let a character have and protect a "real, living beast companion" rather than something like a "fey spirit that takes the form of a beast" that has that ability built in?

We got the UA8 follow up, which had to wrap up that conversation before they could release the next UA. It does seem like they may slow-roll the cadence, maybe every month and a half? I agree that we'll see an early-mid February UA that focuses on some DM stuff, and then the next one will...

Rules While Transformed. While in a form, you retain your personality, memories, and ability to speak, and the following rules apply: Game Statistics. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the Beast, but you retain your Hit Points; Hit Dice; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma...

I agree. But I am still disappointed with the Base Druid and Moon Druid, because I want wildshape to easily allow any beast form from a diverse fantasy world, scalable for effectiveness, without having to access the Monster Manual. Am I expecting too much from wildshape? Should it be so limited...

I was distracted by many pages of a dragon vs. town sidetrek. Is there anything else to discuss that is on-topic about Rogues? If they don't nerf the new monk, I think I'd be ok with rogues getting Extra Attack (Barbarians may need a nudge too, if monk stays as is.)

When I imagine how many "town guards" there are in a 1,000-person town, I imagine a sheriff and their deputy militia... That's not a lot of people. And even if frontier families craft and train in the use of longbows, they are still low HD commoners who will scatter from dragonfear. A Large...

Prior to the invention of aircraft, our world's real world experience with defending a town was pretty simple. Settlements only ever had to resist attacks from landbound humans. Walls were very effective against smaller forces of humans. Armies had to travel, and siege engines had to be built...

The effects of a throat or groin strike sounds like it would be best represented by a personal physical impairment, like being addled, dazed, stunned, or something like that. I prefer "poisoned" to stay true to representing the effects of a delivered physical or magical toxin. Poison...

I think Pegasus are Celestials for a reason (intelligent, speaking creatures sent by the gods to help people), like Unicorns are Fey for a reason. But I don't have a problem with beast-level-intelligence winged animals like winged horses and winged lions, like Tressym and Flying Snakes both...

Yes, and like the Battle Master, you don't choose the option that does not support your personal fantasy. Do you think most people will choose what they think is the most powerful combo of abilities for optimization purposes and then complain they were forced to, which ruined their imagined...

The list of options are just pulled from existing beasts, to they can be used to recreate beasts. The tentacles exist to recreate the Octopus, or Giant Squid, or any other nonmagical fantasy beast that you want to have tentacles. You don't have to give your Sabre-tooth tiger tentacles. How do I...

The Ogre is one of the litmus tests I am going to use to judge the success of monster design in the revised books. The Ogre is currently a boring sack of HP (with the Hill Giant just being a higher CR of that same theme). They need something interesting to make them dangerous and interesting...

I think there are two masters, but the control over the decisions isn't as you described. The Management of D&D wants to make money, and monetary success is one of their primary motivators, but they are not the brains behind what is designed and created. They just have to be convinced to...