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I dunno, maybe I'm just too sanguine because I'm a permissive DM by nature, but I can't imagine saying no to the player that wants to make a swap or two and that these backgrounds are suggestions, not written in stone. A player wants to get their Luke Skywalker on and play a Sorcerer with...

I also like that if you're going to optimize "by the book", than this set up for backgrounds provides more challenge than just customizing to one's heart's content ... and it encourages interaction with the DM. I don't mind allowing a few swaps, but free form backgrounds felt a little too free...

It's a shame we couldn't get something like that again. I do think a lot of my enjoyment and fondness for 4e came from the Encounters program. Sure, it was a little vexing to just play through levels 1-3 (sometimes up to 5) over and over, but it was a way to try out different classes and I made...

That reminds me, more support for LGSes and organized play. I played a lot of 4e because an LGS ran DnD Encounters. I DMed most of it because the adventure material was free and I got to keep it, so I have a bunch of poster maps and adventure content.

The vibe I got was "Star Wars: Goonies". Not yet sure if that's a good or bad thing.

This is the closest I'll get to a second season of Wandavision, which is still my fav MCU D+ show, so I'm into it.

My current issues playing DnD are simply: 1. Parents in my playgroup have to often go parent their kids. 2. Players have work interfering with scheduling. So, what would make more people play DnD from my perspective is more available child care and lower costs of living. IOW, late stage...

I fully confess I didn't play 3.0, so this is more based on second hand knowledge than experience. But ... Psionics was completely reworked, no different casting stat depending on your specialization, death to Psionic attack modes. 3.5 also changed its skill list (Innuendo and Read Lips were...

3.5 was a new edition. 4e Essentials was not. The 2024 revised Core books lie somewhere in the middle. I say it's on the "no" side, but to each their own.

Very well done

Thanks for the in depth review. As for the edition debate ... Compared to the switch from 3.0 to 3.5, this feels much smaller; classes have been rebalanced, but we don't have entire skills gone, the core mechanics and math remain the same. Though I'll confess I didn't go through that change...

Readability has become a major issue for me, and I'm tired of dense tomes and walls of text. Everything I've seen with both art and layout has been a major improvement in that respect. Plus it looks like a fun book to just sit and read.

RE: Summer vs Winter Olympics. For purely shallow "check out the hot athletes in next to nothing", I do like Summer games. For fun sports and nationalistic fervor (Go Canada) ... I tend to lean Winter Games.

1. Shooting and Sailboats. While I get that it's an impressive skill and I'm amused at the memes over some of the athletes ... at least the archers have to put their own muscle into firing their shots. As for the Sailboats ... again, it's an impressive skill, and at least this year they've cut...

Not really, was gonna get it, still getting it. Looking to start new campaigns after getting the full 2024 books.

How's Gen Con going? Any fun panels? Outside of having a PHB, what else has happened at the con that would make non-attendees jealous?

:mad: ... I mean, how is my Dragon Sorcerer supposed to show off their heritage by changing into a mighty dragon? This has annoyed me since 2014. Back to writing up my Wyrmform homebrew spell.

Disappointed that Arcane Eruption didn't get into the PHB, was hoping for some more Sorcerer-only spells in general. I'm still mulling over the changes to spellcasting. I like Polymorph and similar spells giving Temp HP instead of a new HP pool.

Do Sorcerers get Shapechange on their spell list?