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And yet -- it works well in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide as a limited-scope setting gazetteer as opposed to justifying two whole books to cover just the Eurofantasy pastiche part of the setting (i.e., Forgotten Realms' new books). I still think that if not for the 50th anniversary, they...

Edit – accidental double-post.

I have the book and the map (both FR volumes were released by my FLGS on Tuesday earlier this week). It lacks Zakhara, Evermeet. etc. There's a compass in the SW corner so as not to cover up any landmassesl There are arrows on the west and south edges of the map that point to Evermeet...

Or Drunken Fist Warrior. Tattooed Warrior shows that they don't need to use the "Warrior of X" phrasing like they awkwardly tried to back in 2014 version's "Way of X". But I don't think they should emphazise intoxication. Heck, this feels like how they decided to update the "Way of the Long...

I'd rather they adapt Kamigawa with both Champions block and Neon Dynasty subsettings. But Oni's Right Hand suggests we'll get Kara-Tur first. Please please please WotC don't call it Oriental Adventures when it comes west (f it comes west!).

I hope they rework the College of Whispers Bard for the Athasian Minstrel; maybe lean into Weapon Masteries or something to capture more of the Roguish/less magical flavour of the class. I also hope the Eladrin, Tiefling, Dragonborn, and Goliath lore carries over from 4e, as these were great...

I don't agree with half of your ideas, and I'm mostly satisifed with 5e 2024, but I agree with the theory approach behind this. D&D's role amidst all other TTRPGs is the jack of trades. It has to make sacrifices of the specific to mold to the general. But to be able to dial up into various...

Not quite this, but see Lorwyn-Shadowmoor (which will get an upcoming D&D setting booklet of some sort and is coming back to MTG next year). The setting is based on Celtic mythology elements and thus doesn't lack elves & dwarves and halflings, but it very specifically chose to omit Humans...

I was introduced to both early on by loving Rankin-Bass/Studio Topcraft (aka proto-Studio Ghibli)'s Flight of Dragons and their contemporary adaptations of both The Hobbit and The Return of the King (and The Last Unicorn to complete the quartet of these films, though that one is neither Tolkien...

Great point and I was completely forgetting this. I've played in quite a few pre-releases at my FLGS and I should have thought about that. I was reacting to the topic of cannabilization of Magic audience via MTGArena, but it's very true that physical is still required for MOST EDH/Commander play...

No spoilers please. I haven't seen the show yet, and others have already said as much as well.

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This is in part because of vastly different monetization schemata for the two most profitable Hasbro IPs. They've tried to monetize D&D on a booster-pack model in the past - Fortune Cards and D&D Miniatures come to mind. But In 5e, randomized booster Miniatures are gone, because it's just too...

And now I've read the thread, and do not feel cheated. I am glad it was bought back.

The problem with that is that race is a social construct, and even in real life, species is a construct that does not actually fit the "cannot interbreed" clause. Many are species that "do not normally interbreed." And then you have Oaks, where all the White/Swamp White/Chestnut/Swamp...

Game Informer is still a magazine? GameStop stopped sending them in the mail and I never cancelled my sub. I feel cheated!

Plus, propping up competition to Amazon (AND to their own platform on DDB no less) is actually pro-consumer, because healthy competition leads to lower prices and more accessibility to the products in the long run.

Disagreed. Nothing was promised, releases get pulled all the time for various reasons. This is a lifeline to Mom and Pop shops that otherwise would have been screwed as everyone would have gotten the D&D Beyond version instead.

Mythic Odysseys of Theros, too.

The statblocks aren't reprinted in the text of this book. The beginning of each adventure tells you to use the MM and bookmark the pages of certain monsters that will appear, or else to bookmark the monsters in D&D Beyond. So the problem becomes if there's a monster or two that were new to the...