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Love that they're breaking the treasure tables into the types of monsters that would likely have that type of treasure. Super helpful for designing adventures around PCs desire to get a specific type of magic item. As for the crafting rules, I'm a little surprised that at a minimum the...

Oh, and I lost track of the 3rd Elven ring this season. The Elven king and Galadrial have 2, who has the other?

Gandalph get's a B from me only because of the decision not to drag out the 'mystery' of who he was for another season. That 'reveal' didn't work nearly as good as the Sauron reveal last season, but I thought they at least were able to tie it to the arc of his character (even if it was a bit...

Thought they really stuck the landing with episode 8, the Galadrial, Sauron, Celebrimbor, Adar and Durin plot lines were all A+. Elrond, Numenier, the Hobbits and Gandolph I'd give a solid B.

I think it's the 'commonly want in the game' part that's the problem. Experienced DMs simply have too wide a range of want's to make this efficient. That said, I think it would be great if they give some specific examples in relation to building your own campaign, and would love to see their...

I think that since 2014, WotC's focus has been on onboarding new customers first, appealing to veteran players 2nd. I think they correctly surmised that veteran players tastes fracture at a level that makes it difficult to create a product that appeals to all of them, and so instead work to...

For me personally, magic items, the lore glossary, and the art are the big reasons for purchase. For the hobby in general, a solid tutorial on how to DM D&D. We know that lack of DMs is the biggest choke point for the hobby growing, and a book focused on teaching new DMs (as the 24 DMG...

Right, and I'm saying that the best person to write those rules is the DM of the game that wants to use them, not WotC. Providing a set of 'official' variants works against the desire to give the game to the table that it's being played at.

Exactly! And a Google search will be far more effective for any specific DM to find something relevant to their game than 100 pages of variant rules in the DMG would be. Another cool way to emphasize this would be for the Greyhawk setting guide to have a few variant rules laced into it.

Right, but how many DMs want variant rest rules, slow natural healing and full encumbrance? Ask 100 DMs what variant rules they'd like in the DMG, and you'll probably get 100 different answers. There are thousands of knobs that could be turned by any DM, depending on what they and their table...

Regarding variant rules, it feels like rather than give pages and pages of rules that only a small percentage of DMs might use, that they will reduce it down to perhaps two 'master' rules. DM Rulings (in the moment) and DM House Rules (permanent changes). Give a couple of play examples for...

This thread made me think of a related question. You choose a specific weapon, not the property to know, right? So you choose Dagger (Nick) but that doesn't mean you can also use a Light Hammer (which also has Nick) unless you swap it out on a long rest, right? I can't find anything that...

Love that in chapter 2 they are going to give advice on running Social and Exploration encounters in addition to running combat. My guess is this will be the section where they also talk about DM rulings over rules and thus making the game work for you and your table.

Right, I always forget that my houserule for Dispel Magic isn't the actual rule.

Well, the rules for Temp HP state they stay until you lose them or take a long rest, so for the Druid they stay. It's only because of the rule for concentration that Polymorphers lose them when the spell ends. At least, that's my interpretation, I could be wrong! Don't think it's a big deal...

That's exactly the difference. Druids don't concentrate on Wildshape, so the Temp HP aren't subject to the rule with concentration that the effect goes away.

Hmmm, I would read that as the general rule for Temp HP that is changed by the specific rule around concentration spells. The Temp HP rules state that 'some spells and effects confer Temp HP' and again, the rule for concentration states that the effect of the spell goes away when concentration...

The temporary hit points are an effect of the spell, and the rules for concentration state that you lose the effects of the spell when you lose concentration. Therefore, once you lose concentration, you lose the temporary hit points as well.

I'm halfway thru The Doors of Midnight, sequel to the excellent The First Binding by R.R. Virdi. Highly recommend. I'm also halfway thru The Wheel of Time series (my first time reading). Can't believe I waited so long to pick this series up. Unfortunately, I'm in book 7 where things really...

Yes, this has been great! It feels like where they are going with this is that the Orcs will be fully enslaved/ensorcelled by Sauron (exactly what Adar fears) and that is why they end up being the way they are depicted by Jackson's work. Makes it a bit of a tragedy, IMO. The other thing I'm...