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It is one thing if you are trying to shoot a goblin, but how much aiming do you need to do for a hill giant or an ogre? I won't claim any expertise on firearm action economy, though, as it rarely comes up in my games.

I like that. I think the bit about having to see the ball to cast the spell means that you would have to cast it, drop it in the musket, and quick point it in the target (no need to pull the trigger, the hot ball would trigger the gunpowder). Since you aren't pulling the trigger, you aren't...

One DnD 2025.07 on the front page has all the monsters of CR 1/4 or less from the 2025 Monster Manual.

One DnD 2025.06 on the front page has all the monsters in the 2025 MM with CR 1/8 or less.

Good point, and CR is "challenge against 4 PC's", so in outsider vs. outsider, they might have different effective CR's. Solars do a lot of radiant damage, which deprives archdevils of their healing, so even though a Solar is "only" a 21, it might give a hard fight to a Lord of the 9, even...

It seems like WotC is big on one group of outsiders being the heroic level (1-10) and another one being the big time for most of the alignment groups, with the exception of devils and demons, and honestly that is tradition (I seem to recall they tried to break demons up in 3x with tanarii on...

One DnD 2025.05 on the front page has everything from the Eberron UA and all the monsters with CR 0 from the 2025 MM.

Traditionally the snake woman thing is "hey, she's hot" followed by "ahhh" (and not in a good way). That being said, I am fine with mariliths adopting a more enticing visage when messing with the mortals and being more monstrous when fighting devils. My biggest gripe is that I picture them...

Really, we don't even get a story of how your sister's boyfriend's second cousin's barber's favorite pizza delivery driver's best friend swore off D&D forever after some nameless caster got off two fireballs in 1 round before dying the next round. Standards have really slipped around here.

I almost feel like there should be an AP version of spellcaster monsters for the harried DM running a little late who opens up the book 15 minutes before the session and curses when they see what they are supposed to run, and a MM version for the DM who is planning on getting sweet revenge on...

I will buy that. The eladrin hit the party thing too (just run by the wizard instead of the paladin). I have to admit I thought about switching them and the guardinals around at times in 2e and 3x. 4e made me think of eladrin as melodramatic, which is kind of chaos thing, but even more a fey...

That is a good thought. It is easy to forget that celestials are more than just combat + healing (+ infodump), they can solve other problems too.

I think the original idea was that guardinals deal with problems and don't make a show of it, which is pretty NG. If you look at what outsider N's on the L-N-C scale actually do (as opposed to what the books say alignment means for PC's), you will notice that N's tend to have a strong "don't...

Another thought is that I (and think most everyone) thinks of the pre-4e eladrin as celestial elves that can take an energy or elemental shape, but what if it was the other way around? We have celestials that look like humanoids and beasts (and in 3PP, like plants), why not celestials that look...

I don't know, celestial animal people niche is pretty covered with archons, guardanals, and animal lords; it seems almost conformist to make the CG ones like that. More chimerical ones like the Lillend with parts from more than one beast could be a chance to differentiate them from the other...

To tell the truth, I would rather there be more walls or something like a hunger of hadar wall that that reaches out when you get too close than summoning spells. In addition to the Wall of Gelatinous Ooze, there could be Wall of Bones (sharp), Spectral Curtain (necrotic), or Wall of Ghoulish...

Actually, Wall of Ooze would be even better. A 60-foot-long gelatinous cube, that is best in life. I suppose the only reason they didn't do a summon plant is that you can use animate object to get one.

Jubbilex demands that they add summon ooze.

I agree on the wisdom. I would rather they gave the rogue the option of the sneak attack damage being psychic, poison, or necrotic (admittedly poison probably won't see a lot of use) than the cantrips. That being said, I like that this opens up some narrative space for the rogue. If this gets...

It seemed like they were trying to answer, "if we didn't give divine soul sorcery sorcerer access to cleric spells, what else could we do?" I admit I might be out of touch, but this makes 5 sorcerer subclasses, and 2 are supports; is there really that much market for that role? I like the...