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They didn't say in the video, and the D&D Beyond article is delayed until later this week. In general, they didn't go into much detail on specific invocations.

I honestly think it would work quite well as the starting point for a proper "Shadowfell" patron to parallel the Archfey.

The portion of Hexblade that is just "look, we fixed blade pact", yes. I'd argue there's still plenty of room for a proper "Shadowfell" patron focusing on dark shadow magic, hexes, and curses, though... With a bit of work (and perhaps a new name), a revised Hexblade could fill that role pretty...

I don't know about "intentionally holding back", but they were always going to have to follow the '24 core rules up with a new "Everything"-style book relatively quickly, if only to finish updating all the baseline cleric domains and wizard schools they cut to get the PHB subclass counts down to...

May also be a matter where these are just the options earmarked for the PHB and books down the line might include familiar options where appropriate, like how every new beast statblock in a book is an expansion to a druid's wild shape form options. The '14 Monster Manual had an Imp statblock...

I got the opposite impression, for the most part. They said that a lot of existing invocation prerequisites were lowered, but also that some invocations that didn't previously have prerequisites now do - presumably the ones that they don't want available immediately at level 1 for whatever reason.

Yeah, pretty much... Maybe the Beyond article will go into a bit more detail. ...Sounds about right.

Wished they'd gone into more detail on various invocations, but that'd likely have added another 10+ minutes to the video...

Countdown has begun.

Need to go back through their videos from early last week to double check the exact wording, but that was how I understood the matter. They've had floating ASIs since Tasha's, but found that it was counterintuitively not resulting in more varied sets of character statblocks. Most people were...

I have no horse in this particular race. Just noting that "They didn't mention X in the video" isn't necessarily the same as "They confirmed X is no longer a thing".

Absence of evidence is not evidence of abscence. Just because they didn't talk about it doesn't mean it isn't still there. Need to wait until we get the full text, or at least confirmation from someone who has seen it. Maybe the changes article on Beyond will say something. EDIT: Article's up...

And in general I agree. I would have been fine with keeping floating ASI. But WotC seemingly views floating ASI as the implied equivalent of making ASI class-locked instead - which makes sense on some level, given that there are natural incentives to using them to boost whatever your character...

Your genetic makeup is innate. Your upbringing is not. That's the difference. Both are matters of chance - no one can choose their parents or the circumstances of their birth - but species is only decided once, at the very start. Outside of reincarnation or potent transmutation magic, that...

Or just common sense. The general concept of an outlander was that they were a traveler from somewhere else - what are they then if the campaign happens to take the party back to where the outlander originally came from? Are they still an outlander in their own homeland? Is everyone else in the...

Pretty much - it's not really a prison with wardens, per se. Carceri is difficult to leave even for people just passing through, and those creatures properly "imprisoned" there are magically bound to the plane in a way that makes leaving functionally impossible. Prisoners are free to do...

Yeah, Hexblade's popularity can be largely attributed to the fact that it fixed blade pact. Now that many of those fixes have been rolled into the baseline blade pact, it's much less compelling as a subclass. That said, I think there's still room for something in the same narrative vein -...

If I had to guess, the reason is probably that "shibboleth" is a Hebrew word that was used as a password in the Tanakh/Old Testament and has become a byword for ways of secretly signaling oneself as a member of an in-group and/or excluding those who are not. There's a scene from the West Wing...