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Oh, never mind. I had no idea that the "standard" vampire only got a single legendary action per round. That completely took me by surprise.

What's the difference between that and how legendary actions already work? Under normal circumstances, a creature with legendary actions already can only take one legendary action after any given creature's turn.

One Elite monster with the Blood Frenzy ability is the Elder Vampire. The ability says that the creature can take 3 legendary actions instead of 1. I just wanted to verify that what this means is that the creature is able to use more than 1 after another creature's turns, so if it had 3 actions...

Not the right link. :)

I don't see why they would ever do that, given how much they officially lean into the notion of "make D&D your own". And really, when it boils down to it, what would be the actual benefit for them to be officially exclusionary in any campaign setting? Why would they aim to shrink the modern game...

The key there, though, is that it's a direct sale by Wizards. The real question is whether they're going to find a way to do that for FLGS and bigger retailers...

Yep. Got the Binaltech and Masterpiece series mixed up all the time because they were all basically collector grade fully die cast awesome Transformers. LOL I never got my hands on that one, so I can't say from experience. I'm actually more upset at myself for not pulling the trigger on Hot Rod...

It sounds like in your case the subclass did its job pretty well, then...? Maybe a little too well? LOL

It's super interesting to see such a dichotomy of opinions on subclasses being over- or underpowered. I'm curious if those who feel that the subclasses are overpowered are DMs while those who think they're underpowered are players...?

Interesting. I had read/watched other reviews that touched upon the mechanical options being out of balance, but they seemed to imply that they were possibly on the overpowered side of things. Granted, I could have completely misinterpreted what the reviews said.

Oh? Interesting. I've been out of that game for a while now. I still remember the American Hasbro Transformers being absolute crap for the longest time, when they were trying to "simplify" the transformations because they apparently thought American kids couldn't figure out conversions that...

WizKids' pricing is definitely elevated since the pandemic, but even considering a reasonable reduction in price to what it probably would have been prior to the supply chain issues, it still would be well above $100. And it's kinda funny to me see American Transformers used as a contrast to...

That's fair. I don't actually expect them to make a Tiamat even remotely to the right scale, but I think we'd be getting a relatively small looking Tiamat if it were "only" $100. LOL Plus, I think they'd have to make it look pretty decent if they were going to do it at all. These figures are...

No way Tiamat is only $100 unless it's not remotely to scale. The Tiamat mini from WizKids is $400 MSRP and would be too small to be at scale with these figures. LOL

That's pretty cool. I like the aesthetic a lot. Is that just a frontend JavaScript app or is there backend server component to it as well? Just curious as someone in the web app development space.

I don't think I've heard of this Adventure in a Box series before. It sounds like basically WizKids' answer to the Epic Encounters series by Steamforged...? Sounds pricier, though...?

Since the enumerated maximum hit points in stat blocks are a convenience and the expectation is that many DMs roll for monster hit points, the feature description would need to account for that possibility rather than making the assumption that the consumer would stick with the "typical" hit...

I picked up the game store exclusive cover to both support my FLGS and support Wizards' investment in this sort of material, despite being pretty certain ahead of time (and having already confirmed after reading through since) that I would likely never use any of this material as-is in any of my...

I'd think that if they had made the deliberate decision to never mention those places again—especially if it was for reasons strongly tied to those behind many of the other cultural related changes—they would have updated that in the newest printings of those books?

Is it actually useful, though, to reference a part of the Forgotten Realms that has no published material for this version of the game? Sure, the old boxed sets exist, and you could go to DM's Guild and buy some stuff, but for all intents and purposes to the mainstream general audience, it's...