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  1. Veltharis ap Rylix

    Sneak Peak of Planescape: A Preview

    Based on a preview picture they released during GenCon, certainly. Text is a bit small, but absolutely legible at full size.
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    Sneak Peak of Planescape: A Preview

    A smiling arcanaloth will be with you shortly to discuss your case. Please hold. Begins playing diabolical elevator music
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    Sneak Peak of Planescape: A Preview

    Why am I sick when there's Planescape info to gush over? T__T
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    D&D 5E (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

    That's...fair, I suppose. Stripped of any and all possible nuance, but at its core, that is not a wholly inaccurate way to look at it, especially in regards to the Vulkoori.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

    There are no less than three main drow cultures in Xen'drik - and as the continent is very much treated as an largely unexplored land of mystery from the perspective of Khorvaire, almost certainly more. Both the Sulatar and Umbragen have magical traditions on par with, if not surpassing, those...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

    No matriarchies to speak of, or at least none that spring to mind - certainly none among the drow. No patriarchies either, for that matter. Generally tends to be fairly egalitarian.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

    Obligatory gesture to Eberron, where the drow have none of the traditional drow baggage
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    MCDM monster book “Flee Mortals!” KS is live!

    As a general heads up, the Where Evil Lives! pdf is now live on BackerKit.
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    MCDM monster book “Flee Mortals!” KS is live!

    MCDM put out a tweet (or whatever we call those things now) a couple of days ago saying that ~15000 Flee Mortals hardcovers were currently making their way through the packing and shipping process. Haven't got an email for mine yet, but I imagine its just a matter of time for all involved.
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    Digging Into Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

    Chris Perkins has supposedly been trying to make a Mind Flayer-centric adventure module happen for years, going back to 4e at least, if I recall. I'd imagine there probably wasn't any single factor that inspired Shattered Obelisk, but rather several.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Planescape shows up in the wild. Tease from Chris Perkins.

    Four, actually - a 32-page Player's Guide, a 64-page DM's Guide to the Planes (with ~15 and ~25 pages devoted to the Inner and Outer Planes, respectively), a 96-page Sigil and Beyond book (which includes the Outlands), and a 32-page Monstrous Supplement.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Do you think they will add more races to PHB2024 to make up for dropping other stuff?

    Khoravar "breeding true" in Eberron just means that the child of two Khoravar is likely to also be a Khoravar - they are a population that is capable of sustaining their numbers without needing a constant influx of new first-generation Khoravar to do so. It says nothing about the child of a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Planescape shows up in the wild. Tease from Chris Perkins.

    Eh, I love alignment as much as the next guy - honestly, probably a fair bit more than most - but there's just as much if not more that they can do with Faction-based philosophical/ideological conflict that doesn't require them to shoehorn everything into the alignment framework by default...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Planescape shows up in the wild. Tease from Chris Perkins.

    The DiTerlizzi art's great - the only complaint I have is that it's (seemingly) limited to the DM screen, with the book covers and box art pulling from isolated elements of that image, rather than getting him to illustrate multiple distinct pieces throughout, but that's not a complaint against...
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    Digging Into Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

    There were a couple of "Broken Golarion" threads on the Paizo forums a few years back that basically did the same thing - mapping out what the setting would look like if the heroes of every Pathfinder AP (that existed at the time) failed and the villains' schemes came to fruition. It's a fun...
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    D&D General BG3 Massive Spoiler Thread

    No comment on the monks, but my (admittedly limited) understanding is that the Githyanki/Githzerai split happened in the distant past. I don't think we have a specific time range, but the Githyanki's initial post-split leader Gith (who disappeared after travelling to Baator to forge a pact with...
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    D&D 5E (2024) The new warlock (Packet 7)

    You spend an invocation slot to get one of the pacts, but the playtest version also gives you two extra invocation slots - a total of 10 at level 20, as opposed to 8 in the '14 warlock. If you're focusing on a single pact, you're coming out an invocation ahead, and you can pick up a second...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

    Except there is no way this system would ever apply only to elves. Turning darkvision into an "innate spell" is invariably going to be applied to dwarves, tieflings, and every other species that currently possesses darkvision.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

    Do these "innate spells" still require an action to cast? Still require burning spell slots to cast more than once (if non-cantrip)? Still go poof the instant you get hit by a Dispel Magic? What benefit is there to giving a character an at-will personal water breathing cantrip as opposed to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Half Race Appreciation Society: Half Elf most popular race choice in BG3

    DM: "Your character is tossed into the open sea, locked in manacles and chained to an anchor." PC: "Going to be hard to escape, but at least being a Sea Elf means I can breathe water." DM: "Sorry, your hands being locked in manacles mean you can't perform the necessary somatic components to...
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