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As a lore junkie I have a hard time getting excited for anything that comes out of the DMs Guild, unfortunately. I want to see official lore developments that build up the world of D&D and could be expanded upon in the future, not someone's obscure homebrew. Lore and worldbuilding in particular...

When I first got into running D&D around 2007 one of my favorite things to do was to collect the new issues of Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine, and even when they went fully digital with 4E I still loved looking at each issue for inspiration and resources. Some of my favorites were the...

The interaction of skills and tools is definitely the clunkiest and least intuitive aspect of the game's design. I tried to rephrase the rules myself just now but kept tripping myself up.

Yeah, this is the way. Which is more interesting, a Cleric who can't do anything until they atone or a Cleric who receives a visit from followers of their god to put the pressure on them? It also opens up the possibility of having good PCs who are heretical followers of evil gods. For example...

I would like to have monster creation rules...that work just like the 4E monster creation ones (or the more recent MCDM take) with explicit roles to design around. 5E so far IMO has suffered too much from inconsistent monster design standards that make it so some monsters are just...

This is my guess, too. Monster design has arguably been the aspect of 5E that has changed the most. We've went from having monsters with almost no bonus actions or other tricks to having a good bit, legendary actions got modified to potentially include mythic actions before then switching to it...

Now that I've seen all the statblocks I'm feeling better overall. I especially like the Fire Elemental's new aura and the Pirate Captain's use of Vex and their one-turn Charm.

Baldur's Gate 3 notedly added a lot of ranged attacks to creatures that don't have them in the official 5E rules, like giving intellect devourers a ranged psychic damage attack.

I'm curious about the "why" for replacing Infernal Charm and the Golem's Slow with spells. The best I can think is so that they can be unambiguously affected by Counterspell by RAW. I'm glad to see DR and DI to nonmagical weapons gone, but the Ogre just becoming an even bigger bag of HP without...

I started running 5E with flanking rules and thought I'd miss them if I stopped using them, but really it didn't add much. It's too easy to get into flanking position due to the opportunity attack rules. It does at least still have the benefit of making it more likely that a flanked enemy gets...

It would be nice if Artificers got some new signature spells that fit the flavor of the class better.

RAW very few things generate noise that travels. The noise from Thunderwave, a spell that creates a blast of thunder powerful enough that it can knock creatures away, is stated to only be audible up to 300 feet away. The Thunderclap cantrip has an even shorter range at 100 feet.

I'm noticing that the video is showing enspelled armor can be used by noncasters, but that enspelled weapons requirement attunement by a spellcaster.

5E has been around for a decade. Of the booms published in this edition, which ones resonate the most with you as a DM? Personally, despite not being a big Ravenloft fan I have to say that it seems to me like the best book overall. You've got dark gifts to tempt players, guidelines for creating...

The DM's Toolbox preview video for the DMG 2024 mentions Sight Rot and other diseases, but it sounds like they have been included with curses. Perhaps they are now explicitly magical in nature and include information on how to cure them in their own descriptions.

That's pretty much what 4E did. Every character had a basic attack with no riders and then a number of At-Wills. For example, a Fighter had their basic attack that just did the weapon's damage and could choose discrete options like Knockdown Assault to knock prone or Cleave to hit a primary...

I'll say I enjoyed both of the first two seasons well enough, and the second thankfully tones down (but doesn't eliminate entirely) the more crass jokes.

My key takeaways: Mentions a desire to revisiting previous locations and giving them "a new coat of paint" They're apparently considering more smaller and niche releases in-between the larger books Dig at Gary Gygax: "We're not Gary Gygax. We're not going to tell you the right way to play."...

If there was a meaningful mechanical distinction between bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing I'd be more concerned, but the way the majority of attacks work the three damage types could be consolidated to physical damage or something.

I am wondering how the designer of the ancient green dragon expects the fight to go. As written, it can potentially target creatures with its at-will charm monster spell 8 to 10 times per round. Does the dragon just pacify everyone and then pick them off one by one after that?