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This is correct, and terrible. The only way to limit sources in the character builder is by going into each individual players Manager and toggle sources in the first tab, repeat for every character in the campaign. This can only be done after the character already exists, of course, so it's...

If you run a map from an official adventure, it should have an option to pre-populate with monster and NPC tokens a la Roll20 so the DM doesn't have to place them. Also dynamic lighting pre-created so I don't have to do that myself. Those are the two main things keeping me on Roll20 at this point.

Mayhem and danger sizzle in the caldera of Skull Mountain in episode 26 of To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and EN Publishing. Listen wherever fine podcasts are heard in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed or here: To Slay a Dragon: Part 26

The 2024 rules also offer Fighters some more utility options out of combat, including Tactical Mind (for all Fighters) and Commanding Presence and Tactical Assessment (as Battlemaster options). Alternately, the Eldritch Knight is now not restricted to Evocation/Abjuration magic, so they can...

I think that's a little bit of a reductive take on Tomb of Annihilation, tbh. The influences/inspirations are clear, but the plot is original as are all the encounters, dungeons, etc. It's more original than Curse of Strahd in that respect, in that CoS actually wholesale reprints the map & area...

Thanks for the kind words. When we finished that campaign, I read the adventure and I was taken aback at some of the issues our DM had fixed (without our knowing) to make it more cohesive. The Baldur's Gate section, as written, absolutely seems Frankensteined on there to me; it would be much...

In future anthologies and retrospectives and special editions, Lost Mine of Phandelver will be frequently included and Shattered Obelisk might be mentioned quickly as a footnote.

The most recent for me is Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. It has serious overarching flaws but I found them really easy to fix, and there is a LOT of great detail work, and it plays heavily into what I consider 5E's strong suite (site-based adventures with good maps that can mostly be...

Generally, yes. But the spells thing can be an issue currently in DNDBeyond. You can have 2024 and 2014 characters in the same campaign with minimal issues. But having two spells with the same name that work differently can cause unwanted confusion at the table - and DNDBeyond right now has a...

The secrets of the web are revealed and our adventurers come face to chitinous face with the Spider Queen. Episode 15 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and E.N. Publishing, is now available on YouTube!

I like the alt cover more after seeing the full cover and the back. I’m troubled by the idea that the format the 2024 DM’s Guide takes with the sample adventures is something WotC plans to use with actual published adventures and not home brew ones - I thought the point of the ones in the DM’s...

Looking at Jones' website, I actually wish she had gone FURTHER into psychedelia with her cover, as many of her other pieces do: Justine Jones Illustration. I hope she wasn't asked to dial it back.

If they were created using 2014, they should still be 2014. You may need to go into the character editor and make sure the "Legacy Content" box is ticked. You may also need to take a look at their spells in particular and make sure the sheet isn't pulling in 2024 spells. Otherwise, should be...

Ascending the deadly peak of Skull Mountain. PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon episode 25 is now available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: To Slay a Dragon: Part 25

During the dev updates they just keep saying "WotC has said that a new SRD will be released shortly after the new Monster Manual". TBH it doesn't really seem like they have any info the general public doesn't have.

What surprises me is how convinced the devs seem that we're getting a 5.5 SRD any day now. If I was them, I'd stick with what's already in Creative Commons and add my own stuff, not make any bets on what will and won't be in a 5.5 SRD, or when it will be available.

If you mean financially, Ravnica sold extremely well, Theros sold well, Strixhaven struggled a bit. If you mean creatively, Theros is excellent, Ravnica is good, Strixhaven is mostly an adventure book (and among the weakest official 5E adventures in a hardcover format).

Played about 90 minutes of the demo. Graphics vastly improved. Combat still very fun. Encounter design is improved in terms of offering more than one way to approach encounters. Dialogue still dreadful, but for me the terrible dialogue has become part of the charm in Solasta. I hope characters...

I don't think TotM is less deadly (we had a TPK in Cragmaw Hideout, for example). I think complaints that 5E is too easy don't have a universal answer, but often boils down to some combination of three factors, none of which have to do with TotM vs minis/battlemaps/VTT: Player skill...

I enjoy both, but I find that not many people want to play theater of the mind in this era. It was how I played exclusively in the 1E and 2E eras. I did run the entirety of Lost Mine of Phandelver TotM when I first got back into D&D in 2017, and it went perfectly fine. I disagree with the...