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    D&D 5E (2024) Experienced DMs, how useful is the 2024 DMG to you?

    I believe both Chris Perkins and James Wyatt mentioned that they dropped some things from 2014 going into the new books because they believe weren't necessary for new DMs or that hardly saw use. They didn't mention what those things were, but some of the tables that got removed are probably part...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Experienced DMs, how useful is the 2024 DMG to you?

    I expect that sometime in the next 3 years we will get a combined XGE and TCE book that also has all the things they cut from the 2014 book. This will be the Advanced DM Guide
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    D&D 5E (2024) New DMG Encounter Building Math vs 2014

    To get back on topic, Monty Martin from Dungeon Dudes mentioned on their encounter video that he used the new encounter rules on one of their live games, and it was challenging enough they had a few close calls. This to me looks promising
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    D&D 5E (2024) Emanation damage point and linked exploits:

    I don't think the spell needs to be changed--specially when it was changed to work how players were already using it--just because some are deliberately trying to pull another peasant railgun.
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    D&D 5E (2024) New DMG Encounter Building Math vs 2014

    They do...however, who do you think tries to do one or more of those more often than not? Players; specially those that want to be the best in the table and to win the game (aka video game mentality).
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    D&D 5E (2024) WOTC Canceling 2024 Dungeon Masters Guide physical orders (Deja Vu All Over Again)

    I did get an email from DDB saying to disregard emails from test@dndbeyond
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    D&D 5E (2024) New DMG Encounter Building Math vs 2014

    My god man. That passage is specifically about players exploiting the rules. This just showed your bias front and center. Let's go over them quick: Rules aren't physics: aka don't try to pull the peasant railgun, or the cleric lawnmower, or CWB turkeybowl Game is not an economy: don't try to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Emanation damage point and linked exploits:

    The summon spells come from XGE and Tasha's; they're not new. But with their inclusion in the PHB, it made the conjure spells redundant, so they changed those instead.
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    D&D 5E (2024) WOTC Canceling 2024 Dungeon Masters Guide physical orders (Deja Vu All Over Again)

    So I checked my card account, and I currently have two charges for the same amount from DDB. This really looks like it was a double charge and they're cancelling one of them; at least for me. Edit: this was posted by a mod on the DDB forums,
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    D&D 5E (2024) Adjusting Difficulty

    Eh, no. WotC dropped the easy column and shifted everything to the right. The new Low is equivalent to 2014 medium; moderate is old hard and 2024 hard is old deadly. A few content creators have already released videos about it. Also, Dungeon Dudes in their video about encounters said their...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WOTC Canceling 2024 Dungeon Masters Guide physical orders (Deja Vu All Over Again)

    They're not cancelling your original order per se, but a double booking that the Marketplace seems to trigger when they ship your book. If you look at your order history, you can see the status of your order; mine says shipped for the DMG and in process for the MM
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    D&D 5E (2024) Emanation damage point and linked exploits:

    Not really? WotC decided to change the conjure spells to make them different from the Summon X spells
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    D&D 5E (2024) New DMG Encounter Building Math vs 2014

    Tomorrow there should be a WotC video coming out on Encounters & Maps. If anything, it should at least provide some insight behind their thought process for the new Encounter rules
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    D&D 5E (2024) Emanation damage point and linked exploits:

    Seriously; I am so glad WotC included this in the DMG. Most exploits fall on one or more of these, yet there are people that will shout at the clouds that they can do it. Case in point, Pack Tactics released a short calling the new Pact Keeper Rod "broken" because WotC removed the word...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Emanation damage point and linked exploits:

    I wonder how all players can grab the same turkey at the same time in the same 6 seconds a round lasts and from different locations. Instant transmission? This is where shenanigans like these fall apart 🤦
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is Friends + Beguiling Twist OP?

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    D&D 5E (2024) Is Friends + Beguiling Twist OP?

    RAI it's clear Friends is intended to only work on Humanoids and it's merely a victim of how it was written. It's such a trivial thing that I don't think it will be errata'ed. It's clear it's not meant to work with Beguiling Senses in the way the first post suggests. This reminds me of Pack...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is Friends + Beguiling Twist OP?

    This. Automatically succeeding is not the same as actually doing a DC saving throw. Yep. Here's the exact guidance from a section in page 19 of the 2024 DMG: Players Exploiting the Rules "Rules Rely on Good-Faith Interpretation. The rules assume that everyone reading and interpreting the rules...
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    Dungeons & Dragons May Not Come Back to Greyhawk After 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

    Maybe; but sometimes understanding what something was in the past might help with understanding why it was changed. I have never played in GH since I started on The Realms, so I have no knowledge to form an opinion
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