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It's a bit of a gamble, going against the dominant tropes and established genres of a medium. Most of the time it falls flat on its face because it's not something the audience wanted or understands. Occasionally it becomes a cult classic, as it finds a rather small but underserved audience...

Oh, sure. But RPGs of games of imagination and nearly limitless potential. Saying what you could do for a D&D campaign does nothing to change what the established assumptions of the printed books and most of the players are. It's like saying anything is possible if you start adding house rules...

It is, but it makes sense. Eberron is 20 years old and well past the peak of its popularity. It's a setting he doesn't own, which means he doesn't get the final word on the lore and has to play by WotC's rules to put out supplements (to say nothing of sacrificing a share of the profits). So it...

Nearly every D&D setting is some stage of post-post-apocalyptic. There was a high magic civilization somewhere in the past, it blew up for Reasons but left the countryside littered with ruins full of powerful magic items and deadly traps, and rather than dealing with the immediate...

Eberron is a bit of a mixed bag. It doesn't have everything a post WWI setting would, but it has trains and zeppelins and telegraphs. So it's a bit of a pastiche of about a century of real world technology, from the Napoleonic Wars at the start of the 19th Century to World War I in the early...

The Revised 5e PHB does very little to inform the tone and style of the world through the text. Instead, all of that is communicated via the art. What the people look like, what the people dress like, what the towns and cites are like, it's all in the art. And the world the art depicts has come...

That's executive decisions you're talking about. Stuff like "AI is the new hotness, we need to get on that bandwagon!" is not an artistic choice or a reasoned business case, but an executive leadership call. And large organizations do need people at the top making those calls and setting the...

It's not a coordination issue, it's a logistics issue. Physical books come with all sorts of physical bottlenecks. Printing that many books takes time, and you can't just hire more printing houses because then you run into quality issues. Shipping that many books to all the stores is a second...

Seriously. I'm 45 years old, I got in when AD&D 2e was brand new and still have my box full of Complete Handbooks, I've been around longer than the people that started with 3e and am practically a dinosaur to the people that started with 5e. And even I only know of Bargle by repute. I certainly...

I believe Crawford said as much in one the PHB UA videos. It might have been in relation to Paladin's Lay on Hands, or Monk's Self-Restoration that used to be Purity of Body. Basically that "diseases" were not a well defined category in 5e, so they were just mechanically lumping them under the...

And if we're being honest, the player options are not what you get a Keith Baker penned Eberron supplement for. It's the setting material that's the real meat of the book. The player options tend to be a bit perfunctory and of uneven quality. I'm going to wait for the reviews on this, but only...

My vote would be that it works on both the primary and secondary targets, but only at 5th level and higher. Prior to that you're not rolling for damage against either of them, and Agonizing Blast does nothing.

Personally I'm highly suspicious of the idea of applying a permanent class feature upgrade to a temporary feature. Could a Githyanki Rogue apply an Expertise pick to the temporary floating skill proficiency from their species trait? That sounds like a terrible idea, but it's the same thing...

A Celestial Warlock using True Strike is only kinda okay, and only when it's competing with two attacks. The two points in its favor are that it's in the Revised PHB, so there's no question you can take it, and that you can potentially skip Blade Pact entirely. Edit: Three points. It works with...

Tome Pact can give you any 1st level Ritual in the game ...if you have time to take a Short Rest. It doesn't give you more than two ritual spells available right now, at the same time. Which is the difference between white room theorizing about how you'd counter a specific problem, and actual...

On a topic besides damage, I was mocking up character ideas and noticed there's a modest amount of synergy between Pact of the Tome and the Ritual Caster feat. Combining their pools of 1st level ritual spells widens a Warlock's spell selection pretty significant, and the Ritual Caster pseudo...

It's not that you don't have a patron until 3rd level. It's that you're still an intern or temp worker without the full benefits package until then. You could play it that you already have a specific patron you're working with, but you're still on the introductory trial period until 3rd level...

This is an interesting build path to explore because it makes you ask, "Do I even need Blade Pact?" Blade Pact gets you weapon proficiency, weapon attacks with Cha, alternative damage types, and access to further invocations. But how many of those apply to a Celestial Warlock using True Strike...

Would a cosmetic reskin of Eldritch Blast not suffice? Something along the lines of "I conjure a bow of moonlight that fires falling stars, and it vanishes between volleys." Because the problem with a Bowlock is that it's very hard to not just make it strictly better or worse than the Eldritch...

Indeed. The build is especially good with GFB because while Radiant Soul is limited to once per turn, Agonizing Blast works with every damage roll. So it gets applied to both the main hit and the cleave damage of GFB. But again, I expect there's going to be different policies on mixing in...