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I wanted to add one that I haven't seen mentioned here yet: The Waystop, which is AL-compliant but not part of any of the storylines (at least as I understand it; I've never played or DMed in AL). The whole thing is what I think a professionally written adventure should be: simultaneously...

I like my monster books with lots of descriptions, adventure hooks, and material that helps me put these monsters into the game. I think the statblocks are secondary. For example, I consider the 2014 Monster Manual section on Hags stellar. It is packed full of adventure hooks, each of which can...

It’s sadly very bland. I say this despite finding the adventure seed interesting. The map is fun, but the adventure doesn’t make full use of it. There are no NPCs. Just some statblocks. I don’t find this sort of minimalist design very useful, to be frank. If I’m using pre-written adventures...

The past has taught me me that if something isn’t Forgotten Realms yet, it is only a matter of time. I think they’re both, i.e. joint custody, because they’re both part of the FR universe and the multiverse at large. In Planescape, you can visit the realms of gods from multiple different...

It’s difficult with Bane because as FR accumulated other fiendish entities from the larger D&D multiverse, he got progressively less fiendish to occupy a different niche. Older TSR material portrays Bane as somewhat of a Sauron analogue. He has fiends and dark forces at his command, and his...

Like many bits in this game, this ranking is entirely DM-dependent. At my table, I try my best at making all skills relevant and to not have some outshine the others. I fail at this often. I run investigative adventures often, so Investigation ranks very high. If I have a religious character...

I agree with this. From a balancing perspective, it’s completely unnecessary. If anything, it makes combats longer, which is the opposite of what I’d like. Then, it doesn’t strike me as something you could feasibly accomplish wholesale and have another regular action in 6 seconds. Potions...

I allow multiclassing on a case-by-case basis, and in all my years playing D&D I can count the number of multiclassing requests I got on one hand. It’s clunky.

I agree with you in general (as I mentioned earlier in the thread), and I fully concur that levels 1-10 matter much more than later levels. I think the biggest issue is that the class doesn’t quite fulfill the promise of its fantasy and players tend to find it an underwhelming experience.

But the Wizard can get those features. It’s the 14th-level feature of the School of Abjuration. The Archmage is simply an 18th-level abjurer (assuming you are referring to 2014 rules).

By all means, if the book was split into sections and these sections were each written by different writers, credit them separately so we can know who wrote what. The good news is that KP already does that in many of its products (guides, anthologies, etc.). When they don’t credit sections...

I’ve loved many a Kobold Press art piece. Happy this is coming out and I will get it later next year. I’d really like to see the ToV books crediting each art piece individually, actually. Maybe this has already begun (but I do not think it was the case in the GMG).

I don’t think that is a sustainable argument because most players aren’t long term players at all. The overwhelming majority of players came into contact with spellbooks in 5th edition, at the same time they discovered all other core class features. Imagine a DM invites his friend who’s never...

They can certainly do better than that.

Only chatter about it (Dark Sun and Ravenloft rumors). I don't usually follow UAs or give feedback via them. Anything new in particular?

Yes, this is what I meant.

I am a constant DM (not a player, so not particularly cheering for the wizard), but I agree with @Zardnaar's general point. One problem is that the class doesn't have a flavorful core mechanic (say, the way sorcerers have metamagic). Some players look at it and find it empty when compared to...

A handful of FR deities were first Greco-Roman gods who later got renamed. Lathander is a renamed Apollo, etc. Sune's renaming was however less imaginative than the rest. Another forum member dug up an original source from FR's early days a while ago that kept the original names before...

The dragonborn in 3e were something else entirely, if memory serves. Bahamut created them via other humanoids (odd). The dragonborn as we know them today came to Faerûn via the Spellplague or thereabouts in the 4e era. Still very recent in historical terms; they’d be easily identified as...

I’d wager it’s actually tied to Moander, who used to be all the rage in Faerûn back in the day and seems to return for this new book. I don’t care about Moander at all one way or another, really. Not sure what he adds to our already vast pantheon of elder evil threats, but I’m sure he has his fans.