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There are fairly major mechanical elements from the three Magic: The Gathering sourcebooks, such as the Piety and Supernatural Gifts from the Theros book, that they never bothered to implement into the character sheet (and it's pretty clear they never will).

FWIW, I will be pretty surprised if the new PHB release on DNDBeyond isn't kind of a technical mess, at least short-term. I also expect outrage accompanied by general glitchiness when the 2014 PHB gets pulled from the marketplace area and moved into Legacy with VGTM & MToF.

The general point that folks who get early access end up seeing at least some bugs that will get fixed before general release is true, though.

Tasha's absolutely had stuff that was just bugged, not "decided not to implement". Took weeks, in some cases months, for them to fix it. The adventures don't tend to have loads of technical issues because technically they are less complex. But there are still bad links, bad copypastes, etc. But...

Every DNDBeyond release has bugs (bad links, content not integrated into character sheets, etc). They all get threads in the forums there. Most of them get fixed fairly quickly, although some never do.

The most recent early-access thing (Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye) had several errors when first released, which did indeed get flagged by those of us with early access and corrected before the general release. EDIT: No wait, it wasn't the Vecna one - it was the Descent into the Lost Caverns...

This is what I like best about it it. The previous arrangement (early access only if you got the digital & physical bundle) disincentivized folks to buy the physical book from their FLGS. My preference is to get only the digital version on DNDBeyond and, if I want the physical book at all, to...

Deephall Point's Forbidden Shrine yields up its secrets. PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon Part 12, presented by Cast Party and EN Publishing, is now available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: https://cast-party.com/2024/06/10/to-slay-a-dragon-part-12-hammer-of-vengeance/

I favor a structure where your number 2 is number 1, and anything important from number 1 will come up organically as you move forward. Good stories start in the middle.

I'm playing the game where they published a Player's Handbook in 2014 and next thing you know wham you turn around and they're publishing another one in 2024.

I know, right? You get one Players Handbook and then right away a mere decade later they make another one! Microtransactions! That's how they getcha.

This is the only case of me preferring the standard cover to the alt.

Death and Danger await inside Toymaker Hall. Episode 8 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and EN Publishing, is now on YouTube:

Curse of Strahd (levels 3-9) fits rather neatly between Nest of the Eldritch Eye and Eve of Ruin, and has the virtue of including both Strahd and Mordenkainen.

That is conservatively one billion times better than the standard cover.

I agree. The main reason I don't like it is because it's kind of a mess artistically. Same with the PHB. These same three characters in a different style I'd be fine with.

I'm Gen X, and I'm a little taken aback by the heavy emphasis on the cartoon characters, as I really don't consider that cartoon to have much to do at all with the D&D game. It was a popular children's cartoon from 1983-85. It came and went. 95% of the characters in it never really appeared...

Deadly peril awaits the adventurers in Deephall Point’s forbidden shrine. Enjoy episode 11 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon. Available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: To Slay a Dragon Part 11: The Forbidden Shrine

Does anybody know if Passive checks are still a thing in the new books? Because in my experience they’re nice in theory but don’t really work at the table. I feel like they’re better suited to CRPGs than TTRPGs, at least as written.