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Fiends in general are surprisingly tough to do 'hordes' of, since they are individually so highly rated by the encounter building guidelines. Yet you basically never see 'and then the heroes valiantly faced a single demon and two giant rats to save the damsel's life' in any fiction! Around level...

It just seems to me that all of these ideas make the Mind Flayer colony interesting to attack, but do nothing to make the Elder Brain itself a fun encounter. Let's take a look at the next entry! ----- The Ulitharid is a fairly simple creature at its root, a boss encounter version of the Mind...

I don't know if I agree with that point of view; it is like suggesting that the presence of Mutants and the X-Men somehow cheapens Iron Man and Thor, since the former didn't have to 'do anything' for their powers. Not to mention, just because there are Storm Sorcerers in the book, doesn't mean...

Adding minions does change things, but you also then run into the rather embarrassing situation that the Elder Brain is basically going to look like a Mind Flayer with some out-of-sequence melee attacks. Is that what we were hoping for from the boss monster of this smartest of enemy races? The...

The Elder Brain is the centre of Mind Flayer culture and hierarchy, and it is a surprisingly interesting antagonist for a giant organ sitting in brine. I couldn’t resist posting some Baldur’s Gate love! I’m a big fan of the art in the book, as the Eldar Brain rises from water that is glowing...

Could you insert it as one of the Dales? I don't know a lot about the Dalelands, though I like what I do know, and it seems to me that 'there is another Dale that we don't talk about' might work just fine for explaining why it doesn't appear on the maps.

It seems to me that the point is well proven to everyone except those who are not willing to be convinced. :)

Right lads and ladies, we now come to the Illithid section of the book. I hope you’re not squeamish, because some of this stuff is pretty rank. We begin with the Alhoon. a renegade Illithid who turned away from its people - not out of a sense of outraged morality or to join the sunlit uplands of...

Thank you :)

Why are you so bent out of shape about this idea? Are you hoping, through strident declarations and hostility, to convince me that I am wrong to want a companion app that other RPGs demonstrate is possible? I'm not really understanding your point here.

Because I run my game from books, have bought all the books, and it is a game intrinsically associated with books. I don't want electronic books for D&D.

Rogue is one of the best supported classes already, thanks to Mastermind and Swashbuckler in SCAG, so I'm not wholly certain what else there could be. A "forest rogue" would be a Ranger, and a "divine rogue" seems like just mashing words together rather than a strong idea. Perhaps something Fey...

I hadn't thought about them in the context of allies to Hags, but you guys are right to say that there is real potential there. They can get a lost nastier if a Hag pre-casts Fog Cloud or something similar to obscure darkness, and their teleporting shenanigans lets them pop around the back ranks...

Where is this map from? It looks gorgeous, but a quick Google didn't find it. I've got nothing to add to the conversation - never run or read either, sorry! - but I can't resist a beautiful map!

I already said, back on page one: Crib sheet, not full text of the book. It is worth noting that Feng Shui 2, a game that I'm playing at the moment during a break from the D&D campaign, has exactly this: each adventure that they put out comes with QR codes for each combat, and you can scan...

The ranks of the Fey continue to swell, as we turn to consider the Meenlock, a creature that is born of fear and exists to spread it. The art in Volo’s is great, with the proportions and strange anatomy of the Meenlock fully on display. I like the left foot perched on a human skull as well -...

I want a companion app to the books, not a replacement to the books. Why on earth would I want to pay the same price again in order to get the same content, but electronic? I want something that will improve the book, not make it redundant. How hard is that to understand?

Er, but that isn't taking on new characters; one is letting the players control a cutscene in a Godzilla style smashup, and the other is letting the players control some allies, no different from them tooting a Horn of Valhalla or whatever. Sent from my iPad using EN World mobile app

We get a blast from the past today, as the Leucrotta reminds us of the glory days of the Gnoll entries. We first discussed these guys in the context of the Gnoll warbands when we covered the Maw Demon and Shoosuva, so you might want to look back at that post to see how they fit into the wider...

Well, no. Those are VTTs, which won't work on my ipad at the table, cost a fortune for every AP, and are full of features that I absolutely don't want like, you know, the VTT part of them. This is like me saying, "I want a mountain bike to go cycling in the woods", and someone replying, "Buy a...