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Yeah, being concise is a selling point. And I really suspect this version of Greyhawk is going to be quietly updated to be a bit more cosmopolitan, a bit less 70's style dirty hovels and fantasy racism. I doubt it will be hard.

An additional point someone raised on reddit about the second article. It quotes the number of feats being 75, while the playtest only had 64. And that's counting the Epic Boon feats, if those are removed there were only 48. So there's either a few new feats that weren't in the playtest, or a...

It works for Star Wars. And Marvel and DC. And Transformers, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and He-Man, and My Little Pony, and... Well, I think you get the idea.

The digital Game Informer issue is also out, with a different article that drops some additional details. https://gameinformer.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=10122&i=821673&p=18&ver=html5 From the sound of it, Aasimar are in the PHB. "The classic options like humans and elves ... are...

Only a brief description: "the new alternate Player’s Handbook depicts a gorgeous scene of elves and a sinuous gold dragon, all printed in a gold foil treatment."

FYI, reading the text of the linked article is worthwhile. They confirm a game store alternative cover for the PHB, although they don't show it, and name the characters on the standard PHB cover.

That was why I loved the 3e Warlock. It got to play around with some of the caster toys, but without the limited spell slot management minigame.

Just to remind folks, even if it's not for you, it's a good thing the Champion Fighter exists. There are people for whom that simplicity is necessary. I played with one. Great guy, but he didn't handle quick tactical decisions or math well. One campaign, he started as a Forge Cleric, but...

Indeed. It's like Eberron. Eberron was brand new in 3e, and precisely tailored to fit the edition like a glove. But it was so precisely tailored that as new editions have rolled out, with new mechanics and new features, Eberron is torn between having to revise large parts of the setting and...

I wouldn't say every 5e build will work, but it's very hard to mess up a single class character. It's only when you dabble in the dark arts of multiclassing, or making very specific combinations of non-core races with certain classes, that you run into problems.

I would imagine the former. Not only does it allow for planning level appropriate encounters, but it fits the established function of the Rod of Seven Parts. Each piece points at the next connecting one, not all of them at once.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. There will always be a big fish. The Network Effect demands it. You can plead with the big fish to be a good neighbor and not bully the smaller fish. You can advocate for a different fish to usurp the spot of big fish due to its superior fitness. But...

There's a lot of cultural coding in those two pictures. If the picture on the right is the armor of the foreign invaders who don't respect the local religions and have a bad habit of looting and pillaging, and the picture on the left is the local masked vigilante sect who take out corrupt nobles...

Nearly every D&D setting is some variety of post-post-apocalyptic. That is to say, there was previously a high magic civilization that cranked out magic items and build massive structures. That civilization was destroyed in some spectacular fashion, but it seeded the countryside with lost relics...

Most D&D evil gods are the Church of Satan as imagined by a fundamentalist Christian. Most real world unnice gods were gods of dangerous or unpleasant aspects of the world that had to be properly placated so they'd leave you alone. They weren't out to corrupt people or tear down civilization...

I feel like the argument in favor of racial ASI fails either way you cut it. If racial ASI are mechanically powerful features that help define the character, they're incredibly limiting to what classes a PC of a given race can effectively play and should be removed to give players more freedom...

Those guns are cheap and widely available thanks to industrial mass production. Meanwhile, traditionally most D&D settings try to paint their pseudo-medieval world as one where magic items and enchantments only exist as artisanally crafted unique works. Eberron is the only one where...

On the one hand, I agree that it annoys the optimizer corner of my brain. But on the other hand, objectively something like water breathing or a single elemental Resistance is only one step above a ribbon feature. They're really not that important, nor are they a major part of anything's power...

Thematically it's good, but it's always bugged me that Psi Warrior gets a "Resistance to psychic damage" class feature and most of the innately psionic races like Gith and Kalashtar also get it as a trait. I know it's not a big deal, but that sort of overlapping redundancy is like an itch I...

Yeah, that sounds about right. Between D&D and MMORPGs, I've come to the opinion that a successful player race has to check off at least one box from the list of badass, cute, or sexy. Players want easy visual hooks, and those are the top three in terms of popularity. Sexy purple humans with...