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I've commented before about how most D&D settings assume some variety of post-post-apocalyptic scenario. That's the standard justification for why adventurers can pull magical relics out of dungeons and ruins that seem to be more powerful than anything being currently crafted and offered on the...

If there's one thing that's special in the Eberron books, both the official ones and Keith Baker's DM's Guild releases, it's the more civilian oriented low level magic items. Those go back to 3e, but in 5e there's been a steady amount of common grade items. Rising from the Last War had...

True, but the Chain Pact familiar attacks are resourceless, while a Monk doesn't have a bottomless reserve of Focus Points for Hand of Harm. Also the Quasit is immune to the Poisoned condition, which means it can ignore the Putrid Spirit's Festering Aura. I'm just saying, I think "Warlock...

I think you're underrating Wild Heart Barbarian. Now that they can pick their animal buff every time they Rage, they can easily flip between Bear for durability and Wolf for free Advantage against anything they're in melee with for their entire party. That's a pretty big party benefit. I don't...

To my knowledge, there are two main drivers for using money: trust level and fungibility. Not a value threshold. When you're dealing with other people from your one little village that you've known all your life, you have a personal and long term relationship with them. The trust level is high...

Yeah, the "wide magic" principle that Eberron pioneered really seems to have taken hold. Magic is pervasive, though not as cheap and omnipresent as technology is in the modern world. Instead of a world where kings have court archmages and peasants scrabble around like medieval farmers, the magic...

The thing is, they're all playing against type. The orc is a Wizard, the tiefling is a Paladin, and the drow is a Barbarian. Even the kenku is a Cleric, which isn't their stereotype. There's a deliberate choice, and rather different than the old days.

Well, that team is no Jander Sunstar. But it's not the 90's anymore, and angsty elf vampires bemoaning the tormented existence of their forever night isn't the style these days. The clock turns and the world changes. The biggest style difference from the old days with this roster of...

Oh, absolutely they will. All those gimmicky setting or campaign specific starting packages they've been messing around with, the Ravenloft Dark Gifts and whatever the stronger Backgrounds scheme in Strixhaven was, are easily folded into specialized sets of new Backgrounds with paired Origin...

Sorry, I was unclear. I expect that due to backwards compatibility being uneven, more tables will whitelist specifically allowed pre-Revision 5e material rather than blacklisting things they specifically disallow, and that the age of the material will factor into if it's allowed or not. So that...

I figured. Personally, I figure that any sort of supplemental rules like that are on shaky ground, and the older the shakier. So maybe you'll allow it in your campaigns, but I wouldn't take it as a given for anyone else.

Is downtime training of Tool proficiencies somewhere I skimmed over in the Revised PHB, or are you porting forward the Xanathar's Guide rules for that?

I reviewed the video, and he goes over it pretty quickly. If you're right, and you don't need (for example) the Magic Weapon spell to make a +1 sword, that lessens the barrier quite a bit. But I want my hands on the DMG to get the full details.

I feel like a lot of folks are glossing over the requirements to craft a magic item. If I understood the previews right, you need three things: an Arcana skill proficiency, the appropriate Artisan Tool proficiency for the item type, and the appropriate spell prepared for the specific item. And...

It's rather a truism to say that something that's widely popular achieves that by appealing to a broad audience of multiple demographics, yet somehow people still overlook it. Anything with a narrow focus is going to be a niche success or cult classic. To be something acclaimed as "hugely...

I think it's telling that there's a Warlock invocation to get an Origin feat. That puts the two at roughly equal value, while both are "worth" less than a General feat. Which feels about right to me.

Does it have to have a meaning, beyond "Math is Power"? In the really old magical systems, important numbers have weight, and squaring a number is multiplying it by itself. That's like standing between two mirrors, or going Super Saiyan. It brings out a number's inner power. That's why you get...

Not to mention being a more ...reliable and curated source than the fan wikis. Which often mix multiple edition versions and fannon together wantonly.

No, because we're getting Hank's Energy Bow, and that's the "forget about tracking arrows" item.

Agonizing Blast and Repelling Blast are no longer locked to Eldritch Blast. Instead, when you take the invocation you pick a Warlock cantrip to assign them to. And True Strike is a Warlock cantrip. You can't activate Agonizing Blast like this until 5th level, because the cantrip has to roll...