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It's a situation with no obvious good solution. If you gate them behind a feat, that's both annoying and requires them to be stronger than other races to pay back the feat cost. But you can't let people mix and match features freely because they're balanced as an entire package, not as discrete...

The only problem is that the generally popular goblin doesn't have a lot of overlap with the official D&D goblin, in either looks or personality. I'd say the Pathfinder goblin comes closer. They're at least green, have the "ugly-cute little maniacs" vibe going. And both are a good distance from...

I'm going to make a prediction here. There will be zero "villain subclasses" in the DMG. It was a kind of half-hearted throwback to 3e when the 2014 DMG did it, and it was never picked up on in further 5e releases. So the Revised DMG is just going to do away with them entirely. They don't want...

Small data point, the D&D Discord announcement for the Tuesday video adds that it's an hour long. Which means they're really digging into things. So plan accordingly.

Are we allowed to consider the playtest version of the Revised 5e Eldritch Knight? Because the 2014 version is deeply flawed, but like the Berserker Barbarian the Revised PHB update promises to make it a far more functional subclass.

Well, sure. That's why I said least, not none. To pull aside the curtain a little, the book cover is advertising. A picture is worth a thousand words, and the picture on the cover is meant to quickly convey what the book is about and who it's trying to appeal to. That way a potential buyer can...

They absolutely are a thing. Heck, I had one for my AD&D 2e PHB, probably ordered it out of Dragon Magazine. But if I do a quick google search... here's officially licensed leatherette covers. And if I go over to Etsy there's quite a few results there, though they start getting expensive quickly.

Clarity is good, though not every request for clarity is taken (or given) in a calm spirit of friendly discussion. For my part, I try to make it clear when I'm saying "This isn't for me" and when I'm saying "I think this is objectively badly made". But distinguishing between the two even in your...

I just wonder a bit at all the people for whom the cover art is apparently enough to sell or unsell them on the book. Seriously, you don't see the cover while it's on the shelf, you don't see it while you're reading the book, and it does nothing to change the contents of the game rules for...

Might be artistic license. Might be that Beholders got the "expanded family" treatment they teased with vampires. Who's to say, until the actual MM comes out.

I think it's a Flameskull, not a Demilich. The green flame is rather distinctive. But I could be wrong.

Hah! People here were speculating which monster could be on the cover, and it did seem like the beholder and mimic were the top two picks. But here's WotC just going, "Why not both?" Plus a displacer beast, a gelatinous cube, what're probably kraken tentacles, and whatever the toothy guy in the...

I will be reading the book in order to try to avoid out-of-context misunderstandings. Probably I'll skim over the intro chapter a bit, since I don't need a basic introduction to roleplaying concepts. But otherwise, my experience is that skipping around leads to confusion and missed context. A...

You would be correct. Specific beats general, and Alchemical Savant says that it triggers when you use alchemical supplies as the casting focus. An imbued item works as an Artificer casting focus, but it doesn't count as alchemical supplies for other purposes. Really, it's yet another example...

I was back and forth on which PHB cover I wanted, but yeah I'm definitely getting this version of the DMG. The normal cover is nice, I'm not complaining, but this is just stellar.

It's not just the presentation. Different classes split the power budget between base class and subclass differently. It's anything but standardized. Which is absolutely intentional, to provide greater class differentiation and flavor, but does make any sort of universal subclass much harder to...

Thinking about it, if it were me and I were trying to create a mechanical representation of belonging to an elite organization that came with character ability benefits, I wouldn't try to slot it as a subclass. That takes up too much room, and what do you do if the character joins up at higher...

WotC tried that in the run up to Strixhaven, and it really highlighted a lot of the obstacles. Different classes get their subclass features at wildly different levels. Different subclasses get different numbers of features. A non-class specific subclass can't tie into any base class features...

If that's all you're listening to, you need to be expanding your horizons. If you want it close to D&D themed there's Wind Rose, an Italian power folk metal band that leans heavy on dwarf themed songs (both Tolkien and Warhammer varieties). If you want more straight metal I've been greatly...

On the one hand, it's obvious that WotC is really trying to beat the drum on their established IP characters. Especially the ones who had some visibility in the 80s, not the 90s novel line characters. But on the other hand... you're not going to nostalgia bait many people with a character as...