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They've been quite clear for a while that you can run a 2014 character fully built with 2014 rules next to a 2024 character. The only news here is that in addition to that, you can use any 2014 option with a 2024 built character that hasn't been updated by the 2024 rules. So explicitly you can...

Love this, and think you are spot on. Again, had the players had just another 15 minutes to talk through it a bit, it probably wouldn't have been as jarring. Worth noting that the PC (played by Laura Bailey) who jumped at the decision to go along with Ludinus is also one playing a new...

@Parmandur thank you for introducing me to the Dungeon Dudes! Had never checked them out and after a 6 hour rabbit hole journey into their content yesterday, am hooked.

So let's try a specific example from Critical Role. Spoilers ahead for Episodes through Campaign 3 Episode 100. In Episode 98 (Live show at the greek) the party is in a dungeon trying to thwart the plans of the BBEG, an elf archmage named Ludinus. They are looking for something he needs...

Weirdly, I've come to really appreciate the standard rule for 0HP after playing BG3 a few times and have taken inspiration from the way encounters are built in the game to the tabletop. That said, I've also been using a house rule for the last couple of years where dropping to 0HP gives the...

Human Elf Dwarf Dragonborn Orc Goblin Bugbear Gnome Changeling Fairy With only 10, I would make Tiefling/Assamir/Genassi a template to put on top of any of the above species.

I also feel that C3 is a bit slow (in some way similar to the way Wheel of Time slowed starting with book 7), but my thinking is that the reasoning is more related towards their desire to stay away from D&D IP, which then puts a lot more work on Mercer, and in turn, he's relying more on the...

I think the closest they've ever come to this may have been at the live show at the Greek. A decision was made at the end of the episode (rushed because they were on a hard time limit) that felt like the players knew that the PCs HAD to make the choice they did to set up the next three...

I've DM'd 1 successful use of Divine Inspiration in 10 years, and while it helped, it wasn't critical to success for the PCs. The best Cleric moment I've ever seen was a level 19 BBEG fight (Modified Terrasque that was NASTY) where the cleric had been swallowed and making death saves with 2...

They'll still stun on 50%+ of their attempts against a typical caster, taking them out of half of all rounds and when they don't, can set up a Paladin, Rogue or Battle Master fighter for a nasty crit on the next attack.

I'm down with equating Old magic with Psionic, but would argue that Psionic magic is the magic of our world leaking thru the Far Realms into the D&D Multiverse. After all, D&D was created by words from our world. It's the magic of our imagination.

So at level 20 any bard could have 14 spells from other lists (11 from swaps, 4 from new prepared slots) and a Lore Bard could have 16 (assuming they still get two extra prepared slots with their feature).

True that the party DPR would be lower, but the groups ability to mitigate enemy DPR (healing, charm, defense buff) should prove enough to keep them well ahead of the curve in combat, not to mention being capable of avoiding combat all together in many situations.

In the video Crawford mentioned that their power comes from the words of creation that formed the universe, so I'll go with OLD MAGIC, the root that eventually split into three branches.

Right, in that case I'm guessing that the Lore Bard's feature adds an additional prepared space that they can also change every level. So at level 10 they are able to change out that spell and one other.

Revenge for all the extremely thoughtful, long essays they write that I can never not read :)

Had the same thought, but thought that the Magical Discovery feature might be a specific restriction, as otherwise it would be the same as Magical Secrets at 10 and they would gain no benefit from it. IE. Lore Bards get to dip into the expanded spell list early, but only for 1 spell and that...

I really like the new Divine Inspiration feature, but will likely add the ability to use it in the old way as well (with the same limitation that if it works, you loose access for a week, and if it doesn't it still counts as the use for the day). Keeps the Hail Mary there for when you really...

Gonna be really, really hard picking between Glamour and Dance. And maybe more than any other class, it feels like a party of 4 Bards with each of the subclasses would be an extremely capable group. Nice mix of magic and matial early, expertise covers a lot of skill check ground, and once they...

Most importantly, bringing out your duplicate is now a bonus action that doesn't cost concentration making it way more useful in way more situations. They also added the ability at 6th level to swap places when you place the duplicate and for it to be able to give advantage to allies at later...