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Haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but one point in favour of rolling what was once the nebulous "hidden" status into the Invisibility condition is that you no longer have to do that thing where anyone who is Invisible still has to take the Hide action or it's basically useless for sneaking...

Expected the switch to Aberration after the derro got it too!

I mean, that is a very literal definition of "miasma" - in general it's a rather old-fashioned, perhaps even poetic, way of describing some kind of gaseous emanation that has about it an insidious, corrupting quality. Miasma makes me think of disease (partly because of the Victorian era "miasma...

Weird vibe in the D&D Beyond article where they talk up how it's more thematic that various features key of the Wisdom bonus rather than proficiency bonus, even though it's clearly a straight nerf (from 2014 + Tasha's anyway), but the free Hunter's Mark castings have clearly switched to PB per...

Oh, okay, I misunderstood what you were saying, I think. I read it like you were adding them to a running total of actual THP, not keeping track of how many were potentially available taken in aggregate.

Temporary hit points don't stack. I don't think this has changed in the 2024 rules, has it?

With Mage Hand Legerdemain making it both invisible and movable using Cunning Action, it's honestly never occurred to me to track the action economy this closely. I just assume it's always 'on', and the AT can use Versatile Trickster whenever they haven't used a different bonus action. Judging...

What? Mage Hand is the Arcane Trickster's whole shtick. That's why they can make it invisible and use it to get advantage. A 1 minute duration is also plenty for combat - are you running a lot of combats that last more than 10 rounds? Like a wizard with Mage Armor, I basically assume an Arcane...

Anyway, there is some sexy art - look at the dwarf bringing those cakes to his husband! You think that wasn't drawn to appeal to the male gaze?

I wonder if it's art for Polymorph or something? They look like wizards having a duel a la The Sword in the Stone.

I think it's clear from the context that these pieces accompany the species entries; they're not meant to be what you do playing D&D, they're where you come from. So if your character is the equivalent of Frodo, these are the equivalent of the bucolic Shire, which is what you've set out on your...

The D&D sphinx is closer to the sphinx of Greek mythology though - that's the one with the riddles and stuff. While it probably stems from a common source in the Near East (hence its similarity to quasi-divine Mesopotamian creatures like the lammasu and the shedu), the history of the Egyptian...

Beard braiding styles must be Serious Business for this dwarven culture! Also, look at the little dwarf girl with the bunches: she's got teeny tiny tools in her pocket! It's a lovely piece imo. I get that it's not the usual type of thing you expect from D&D art, but these kinds of pictures...

The dwarves have tattoos of each other's beard designs! They are husbands! 😍

A swarm is a single creature in rules terms: anything that affects "a creature" also affects a swarm, otherwise most of the game wouldn't interact with them - not least the Eldritch Blast spell itself! The immunities, resistances, and other rules in each swarm's stat block already cover the...

I was referring to the people saying they wouldn't buy it tbh. That's usually the meaning of the idiom to which I was so subtly alluding: that one shouldn't dismiss the contents of a book based upon one's opinion of its cover. I don't think anyone really uses it to mean, like, "buyer beware".

Lot of people seemingly deciding not to buy this book based solely on the cover which, as we all know, is something you should always do. [Edited for clarity!]

It's the Dungeon Master's Guide, not Venger's Guide!

Yeah, that's also a solution, but I think it requires more steps because his ritual is incredibly vague anyway, and you don't lose anything from the adventure by changing that one aspect of it. Like, you can run the whole thing precisely as written, except for whenever it mentions Vecna's...

I feel like this is kind of coming at it backwards: the gods demonstrably don't care in the adventure, which robs the premise of some of its internal logic. You need to dial back the scope so the fact that the gods aren't involved directly makes sense. To put it in perspective, there's a bit...