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Dividing spells up into Arcane, Divine, and Primal got left behind in early playtests. The 2024 PHB uses class-based spell lists similar to how 2014 PHB treats things. In general there is still some thematic impact of the Arcane, Divine, and Primal lists, like how Magical Secrets for Bards or...

Fighters can change their fighting style feat any time they gain a new level in Fighter. Paladins and Rangers don't have this written though, theirs only say they can change the cantrips selected by Blessed Warrior or Druidic Warrior every time they level up.

Yeah it's going to go on indefinitely, unless WotC loses enough market share to make another game become the top dog in the industry. Then people will complain about that one and ignore WotC

The layoffs were ~9 months ago? That's a long time, plenty of time for a position to legitimately not be needed and then for new work to come around and require the position again. Working in California for a company that is overly conservative about preventing employment lawsuits, I've always...

I have no dog in this fight but Drink, Salute, and Spit are all obviously verbs, and would've been completely in line with how the 2014 version of the spell was intended to be used. You can't argue that the spell only works with words that are exclusively used as verbs and impossible to use as...

With the caveat that the rules at your particular table will depend on your particular table, all polls I've seen so far indicate that the vast majority of tables are considering non-reprinted spells, subclasses, feats, etc, to all be fair game to use as originally printed. If your table plays...

No one multiclasses because they need to for RP reasons, you do it because your character will objectively be more powerful that way.

If you only consider Tier 1 as the "levels that matter" then yes you will rarely ever be better off multiclassing. That's a really narrow and specific window of levels to care about though. All of the martial classes gain significant power per level up to at least 5, sometimes even up to...

Cause Fear is not in the new PHB, so presumably the XGtE version would still be the prevailing rules until it is reprinted in the 2026 "Xanathar's Updates to Everything"

Now add in Haste spell - between doubling your speed and giving an extra Dash, it's more than a 2x increase in damage

Completely up to the DM to adjudicate. I kind of loved that it allowed so much creativity while at the same time also kind of hated how it required the DM to completely make up the rules as they go

They're referring to Shining Smite. Faerie Fire with no saving throw, only requiring an attack to land (which you get to land BEFORE deciding to cast the spell), it's quite strong much like the other spells you've referenced which don't require saving throws.

I voted for two options since I'm in two campaigns taking different approaches. Both using the new rules, one allowing backwards compatibility, the other one not. Probably other people voting for multiple options too

I don't think the wording is any different than the 2014 version. The 2014 version says (paraphrasing the relevant part) "when a creature moves within the area, it takes 2d4 damage for every 5 feet it travels". That sure sounds to me like forced movement is intended to count as moving within...

It can easily scale to completely out of control numbers if you combine it with haste and boots of speed. By level 11, over 500 damage per round is easily attainable with spike growth grappling edit: The crazy high numbers come online much earlier than level 11, I just picked that number to...

My homebrew rule will be that Spike Growth damage is only triggered by creatures using their movement speed (similar to the wording for Attacks of Opportunity). Maybe also add some damage for ending a turn in Spike Growth to beef the damage up for players who are using it normally and not...

And for GWM which you probably want as well

Bringing back beloved settings is listening to the fans though. They bungled the execution and put out some bland and uninspiring products, but they at least attempted to do what players asked for. You can listen to what people want and still suck at delivering it successfully. Old School...

Nice writeup! One thing I've been trying to figure out, is there ever any purpose in taking Dual Wielder feat as a straight Rogue? It seems pointless unless you have Extra Attack - at best you turn a 1d6 Nick weapon into a 1d8 Vex weapon. Rogues are always the first class I think of as...

Interesting article, I'm not sure whether anything from WoW necessarily carries over to DnD, but one of the lessons that could be relevant is how WoW made giant improvements recently by starting to actually listen to what players were asking for and actually doing it instead of always trying to...