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Maps going free is great. That message is bizarre and rings of "corporate said we had to say this" sort of wording. The D&D team is working far ahead on projects and I wonder if the 2024 books didn't hit the marks they expected (being based on popularity over a year old) and realization is...

Choose a direction, and be consistent with it. I've played several games where you want to roll under (usually to get as close to the target number as you can, like playing blackjack). I've played other where you want to roll as high as you can. Old D&D uses a mix, and while I never had an...

You could make it that each god has a yin/yang aspect of duality - most folk promote/favor/worship the "good" form, and fear/appease the negative aspect hoping to keep it at bay, perhaps calling down the "bad" side on individuals they wish to curse. The "alternate" names are simply titles...

On monsters, a lot of creatures that have the "claws" attack make one attack roll but the damage is combined into (usually) a single die. For example, a Lion does 1d6 (+3) with its single-rolled claws attack, representing two 1d3 individual claws rolled into one attack (if you roll a 1 for...

I was about 10, in 1980, when I was introduced to D&D. My first exposure to Tolkien was The Hobbit Rankin Bass version - I can't remember exactly when, but well before I was in 7th grade (I got to be the voice of Smaug for the school play that year :) ). To this day, I have never completely...

You could also roll Gruumsh into an aspect of Talos. I'd keep Oghma as he covers one of the adventuring classes and is patron of Candlekeep, if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I think I'm going to have to agree with others. Until there is a printed version (and hopefully PDF), this is a pass for me. Hopefully, they're using the Beyond version to gauge interest and/or collect errata/faq from customers before committing to a printed version.

"Heroes of Hellfire" minis? There's going to be minis released as well?

I can agree with Mearls on 1st and possibly 2nd Gen, but the problem is that D&D stayed locked into what it was until 2000 while the rest of the RPG community took a hard left away from TSR design. He's too narrowly focused on D&D, which has been struggling to keep up with the direction just...

I've been taking the content like the recently released Uni's Adventure and copy + paste into a document that I then turn into a PDF for my own archiving. Mostly as I don't like trying run from Beyond in the middle of a game and fighting with an internet connection at the FLGS. Having it as a...

I know the '91 D&D starter did (I mistakenly called it the '99 set earlier), it was a big theme for it (and Dragon's Den, Goblin Lair, Haunted Tower & the Thunder Rift adventures). Not too long ago, I pulled out the 2E starter set and it had poster-sized battlemaps and standees for all the...

Re: Dungeon!, Heroquest, Descent, Gloomhaven and others.

The '99 (Basic) D&D starter set did this, also the 2E AD&D starter set, the 3.5E starter sets and I think the 4E "Red Box" did as well - battlemats/tiles for the included adventures as well as minis - even actual plastic minis for all but the '99 and 4E set (the 2E one had minis for just the...

I love Saurials, and would love to see them return, as well as expanded. Perhaps with some expanded abilities related to dinosaurs, to make them unique from Dragonborn, Lizardfolk and even Firenewts. As far as language, I'd list it as actual "Saurial" and then note that it is a language that...

There's a fungus that that does something similar to other insects and arthopods - infects them and turns them into a sort of zombie. I think D&D's Yellow Musk Creeper and zombie is based off it. Along those lines and the "creeping cactus", this creature from my own Bestiary should give PCs...

I'm going to laugh so hard if this ends up eclipsing the Borderlands starter set. This is a starter set itself, right? At the very least, this seems to fall into the "cannibalizing sales" arena they've railed against so much in the past. I never did pick up the last Stranger Things starter...

Is it just me or does the art for Eddie look more like Matt Mercer than the TV show actor?

Weren't we just discussing with someone formerly from WotC how difficult it was to time the release of a product with a show/movie/game?

Don't be dense. I'm not talking every obstacle, but if your first inclination is "I can take this head-on" without regard for some form of caution, that's not a game I want to be involved in, as the result is always the same.