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You might be looking for a barghest. It's a shapechanger that switches between a goblin and an oversized wolf (could be easily reskinned to a worg). It's CR4. There are online stat blocks for a greater barghest if you need more of a challenge.

For me, the game starts to get ultra gonzo around level 13, when 7th level spells come online. In future campaigns, I'll talk to the spellcaster players and see what we can do to make it all a little less absurd. At higher levels, combat dragged with 5 players. With 3 players, it never dragged...

I too have run a 1-20 level 5E campaign and this tracks to my experience.

Gorgeous map

Love your blog. But I don't think it's fair to say that 2024 and 2014 are not backwards compatible because of a single encounter in a 3rd party adventure which modifies a creature from the Monster Manual. I'm still open to the possibility that there are bigger issues with compatibility, but this...

It's the same game. There's a few corner cases (which players will exploit) but that's true for any game and any edition.

The conventional wisdom emerging among YouTubers and the like is that Rangers work just fine in Tier 1 and 2, but their damage output fails to keep pace above 10th level. The emphasis on Hunter's Mark also creates friction with Concentration spells and bonus actions. I have what I believe to is...

Scheduling.

I've played three 5E campaigns. One reached level 13 before the group fell apart, another reached level 13 and came to a natural end, and another ended at level 20 with 7 epic boons. I like 5E in Tier 1 and Tier 2 and Tier 3. Tier 4 is difficult to challenge PCs, but it goes by really fast --...

I'm the OP. When I started this thread I was hoping to have people engage on the question of if, how, and why 2024 D&D has adopted some 4E-inspired elements. Looking forward to continuing that conversation!

I got a lot of use out of the drow stats in D&D 2014. In fact, when I started playing 5E, I thought drow were kind of lame. Tryhard edgelord stuff. But thanks to those stats in the Monster Manual, I warmed up to them. Now I think they're cool. So I'm glad to see old school evil drow returning in...

When 5E came out in 2014, some people bemoaned that the best parts of 4E hadn't been brought forward. Well, it's now ten years later. And guess what? Bloodied is back. Martials have weapon masteries that give them at-will powers. Many monsters impose conditions on a hit. My hot take is that...

I hope this doesn't turn into another 4E edition war thread. Don't we have enough of those already? Regarding how many levels the game should cover? It's an interesting topic. Reasonable people can disagree. My take? It's arbitrary. I've played 13th Age and Shadow of the Demon Lord. Both go 10...

Interesting question, Mike. Here's my hot take: I believe that most of the innovative 13th Age mechanics are DM Aids in disguise. Take Icons, for example. Icon Relationships live on the character sheet. But they’ve helped me immensely. Need to give some depth to that mummy? Easy enough when the...

Sounds like a fun idea.

None of the above. I'm currently running a long 13th Age campaign. When that's done, I intend to run a D&D 2024 campaign.

I'm not convinced there is a difference in approach between 5E and 5.5E. It's the same game. And the product plan has been evolving for the last 11 years. First, I'm surprised at how many setting books were published for 5E. And even more surprised that most of them didn't have adventure...

I'm about 40% of the way through my current campaign, which is 13th Age. That should take us until the first half of 2026 to finish. One of my players wants to run a Delta Green adventure; maybe we'll do that in October. In 2026 I want to start a new campaign for 5.5E.

A bit more like Rules Cyclopedia, I guess?

Where to next? GAMMA WORLD.