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Ghostfire Gaming just ran a near-million-dollar Kickstarter for Grim Hollow Transformed not only advertising it as compatible with D&D 2024 but even their D&D Beyond integration (which is pretty wild). This is pretty much exactly what WOTC said they wanted with the OGL 1.1 – the only difference...

I am pretty confident we will. It's really in WOTC's best interest to do so. WOTC wants more publishers writing material compatible with D&D 2024. That way other publishers risk their own money on compatible products and WOTC can bless the successful ones for ingestion into D&D Beyond. Then WOTC...

I argue we're actually dealing with a small-data problem. Some stuff might be obvious and some might be a wild-ass guess. Some folks here will be right just by being lucky. But the design team is small. They put out few products. And the environment is always changing. I wouldn't bet money on...

Paul Hughes, the lead designer of the Level Up Advanced 5e Monstrous Menagerie and writer of the excellent Blog of Holding, wrote an article building the D&D 2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card where he analyzes the statistics of monsters in the D&D 2024 Monster Manual and compares them to...

Now that you have these experience, what advice would you give to DMs getting ready to run D&D 2024?

I can understand errata but I really want to see a pdf of it I can download, save, and print.

Meaning what other game system do we think nails now moral checks should work. What’s a good example?

Anyone have an example of what system does morale “right”?

It's funny. As every one of the D&D 2024 books comes out, I've heard people say "maybe the Dungeon Master's Guide will have it" and then "maybe the Monster Manual will have it". We can always expect another book they may or may not put out but it constantly gives them the excuse for not having...

In my Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands game (which turned into an old-school Descent into the Depths of the Earth campaign), I had a tribe of goblins and bugbears who worshipped one of the two heads of Demogorgon which they called the Eater of Worlds (they didn't realize it was one of two...

Are the lizardfolk, aarakokra, and minotaurs bland, tepid, safe, and boring in the 2025 MM? Somehow they managed to do justice to these species. Why not orcs, duergar, and drow? The whole "they're humanoids and we don't use humanoids" is absolutely a dodge.

I always thought this stat block description from 13th Age was funny. And it sort of gets to the point of how to treat sentient creatures, though I don't think 13th Age did a fantastic job of this back then but this was just a good example.

So where are the drow of Lolth, duergar of Asmodeus, and the orcs of Gruumsh?

Exactly. They trail far behind most other publishers when it comes to handling things like this. Ancestries and Culture was written years ago and they still just went with "species". Their own setting, Eberron, had fantastic ways to change how the "monstrous" races are handled and they ignored...

My problem is that in their own setting, Eberron, gnolls aren't fiends and goblins aren't fey. It takes like one sentence to fix a lot of this stuff and they did it for minotaurs and to a lesser degree with lizardfolk.

I wrote about this in another thread but I think WOTC sidestepped the real issue rather than having an adult conversation about how to avoid painting an entire sentient species as all bad. A page in the DMG about how to handle sentient races in campaigns could have done a lot to help the...

I'm very late to this thread but I have opinions! I think the D&D 2024 books took away a lot of the "here's how to fish" sort of advice we saw in the 2014 books including the monster stats by CR table they had in there (and that was well used by many people I know and talked to). They also...

Yep. The only people it really affects, though, are those who are building off of other publishers who used the OGL. If you only needed the 5.1 SRD, you can switch to using the much safer Creative Commons one instead. But fear of the OGL could lock out a big ecosystem of other material from...

I doubt they’re ever going to touch the OGL again.