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On this front, it's probably easier at the table to give out more items and adjust, than to give out fewer and adjust, because of player reactions. So we might call that a modest simplification for the DM. Apparently a surprisingly important part of this change is the fact that people find it...

Well, I was actually asking a question, not trying to make a point. So...

So... you're saying that the new offering is around about the same price as DDI, for around about the same content, and that is somehow unacceptable? What are we arguing about, again?

Is that $70 per year accounting for inflation?

Okay, well it seems that the logical way to approach this is to analyse the two things. I never used DDI much, but I vaguely recall that it was an online-only character builder and monster database, and that it cost about £4 a month per person. Is this correct? The two things worth comparing...

Yeah, you're right. I was making a point that really didn't need to be made! :) I think that I mentally assumed I was in the other thread on this same topic. My bad.

Amusing thought, from this discussion: can a Dragon spellcaster Shapechange into a different dragon? I mean, can Iymrith, ancient blue dragon, shapechange into another ancient blue dragon, so that she effectively gains twice as many hit points? It's not a very clever idea (easier to just bump...

On the other hand, we have an edition of D&D that by all indications will last for a good few years more (certainly, there's no signs that they intend to re-do it any time soon). For $60 in the first week, you can get permanent access to an electronic version of all the core material for D&D...

It feels like the biggest problem here is not their ability to win combats, but their inability to step on each other's toes, in terms of roleplaying / character niche. I had something similar in a one-shot I played in; everyone else was some kind of caster, including two fighter/wizard...

I'd agree with this. I made my homebrew setting roughly the size of the British mainland for the exact reason that all my players would be able to instantly understand what that meant. I suggest you do the same for your local area - pick something the size of your US state, or country, or...

The 2nd edition rules were not perfect - they still never really answered the question of why player characters didn't have specific 'adventurer' careers, and Dwarves in armour were almost literally unkillable - but it was a really enjoyable game for me. Easy to run, with a system that is best...

$3 for a race makes more sense when you figure that it's for a player to buy after deciding on their character choice for a long campaign. It'll not be used by anyone that likes making a lot of characters, or who is a DM, I think. Also I guess you get some people who always play a certain...

I guess they already did that with Yawning Portal. I reckon they'll just have a cold open in that town in Chult, and have a sidebar with suggestions for how and why they got there.

I'll be buying the core books - and perhaps Volo's - in the first week, and subscribing to Heroic. I run for three groups, and my wife has already enjoyed using it to run her LMoP Elf Wizard, a class that was giving her trouble as a total newcomer, because of having to read each card every turn...

One big reason why it's hard to answer this question, is because for all intents and purposes the cults are all in the same dungeon. They can't have too wide-ranging an effect each, since they'd bump into each other in the hills! One possible answer is to just split them up, an action that I...

A few comments on the last few pages' worth of discussion: One thing that 5e WotC adventures are confident in doing is very quick modifications to a monster. Princes of the Apocalypse is the best example. In one place, the book says, "this is an aquatic Troll, it can swim 30ft. and breathe...

It might also be that they feel there is greater profit from a XGtE sized book than a SCAG sized one. After all, Volo's Guide sold well, it seems, and I never saw complaints about its value, whereas every review for SCAG mentioned that it felt 'pricy for the contents'. Combine greater sales with...

Firstly, please learn how to use apostrophies. Secondly, they're not PDFs. It's a web app, with interactive and at-the-table functionality. You may or may not find it worthwhile, but calling it a PDF is to misrepresent it.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/18/15988688/dungeons-and-dragons-beyond-wizards-of-the-coast-digital-toolset-roleplaying-games An article about the news, with the same information but some quotes to contextualise it.

You know, this is an excellent question. If I purchase Curse of Strahd on DnDBeyond, what do I get for my money, beyond merely an electronic version of my book? Having all combats and maps preloaded into a combat tracker would be a LOT of saved effort, especially for those of us graceful and...