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Lorwyn is sort of like the Feywild and Shadowmoor is sort of like the Shadowfell. Eldraine leans even more heavily into Feywild while Innistrad leans even more heavily towards Ravenloft/Shadowfell. The cool bits about Lorwyn-Shadowmoor is that it combines the two into one alternating plane, it...

Quite aware, loved that implementation. And I agree, though I'd argue that they intentionally obscure the Psionics of the Monk just as they moved away from outright magical Ki Power, because they want players to be empowered to flavour their Monk as Psionic or Divine or Primal or Martial or...

Drow as in Cow, by way of inheritence from the Trow, a Scottish/Northumberlander variant of Troll dating to the Danelaw, influenced by the Cumbrian and Gaelic speakers' accents mingling with those of Saxons and Danes up North. I say this as a proud descendant of families that included the word...

What about Golden Sun's elemental psynergy? This gets into the important point on the TV tropes page under Anime & Manga – East Asian media often conflates spiritual power, wizardry, martial arts, and psionics into one thing because there wasn't as much of a push back against esotericism as...

And 2e/3e/3.5/4e splatbook fever and their poor sales per book is why we only get a Rules Expansion for classes every 3 years or so in 5e. This is the fundamental challenge D&D struggles against, and a book entirely devoted to Psionics isn't going to cut it like it did in decades past.

Azers are dwarf-like elementals from the Plane of Fire. They're quite easy to fit into the world for anyone who has even a concept of Dwarves. Just lean into the FIAH bit. Remember, Our Dwarves are All the Same. I personally like to make Dwarves the material plan echo of Azers, Galeb Duhr...

It was supposed to BE in Tasha's, alongside the Artificer. Instead we got Aberrant Mind, Psi Warrior, and Soul Knife. It was NEVER going to sell a book on its own, it always needed other content to get it over the finish line and sell the books. But even with Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, we...

Wish they'd create a pdf version of the Free Rules like they did with the Basic Rules… At least they're keeping all PHB classes in from the getgo like with SRD, rather than just the core 4 in the Basic Rules.

So the free basic rules and/or a starter set? Essentials Kit also works similarly for this!

Psionics is magic without req components (material, verbal, or somatic), with a particular flavour toward the New Age, the Sci Fi, the Weird Fiction, and other non-medieval-high-fantasy assumptions. Mechanically, the components question is what it leans on. The reason a "Psionics Tradition"...

I just read (late to the party) that Adventurer's League is shifting gears to Legends of Greyhawk setting that is integrated with D&D Beyond rather than its own AL website. I know recent years of AL have opened up for play in the various annual campaign books as WELL as multiple seasons of...

Oh, the other possible 4th Rulebook would be to go the D&D Essentials route from 2010-2012 and publish a Rules Compendium that duplicates the core encounter (combat, social, etc), exploration, character creation, status effects, creature/monster/npc/pet stat block interpretation, downtime...

Essentials Kit, or perhaps Tales of the Yawning Portal. Maybe Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse box set as it's the one setting book that's really core to the base assumptions of the game (though Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Spelljammer: Adventures IN SPACE!, and a few of the...

So no fix for the misspelling of Merrow as "Merror" in the levels index?

I mean this criticism hasn't kept me from buying the new versions of the book but it's very disappointing. There's a lot of good people who have done solid work on these books, and a lot of good people who did solid work on them that didn't get credit for doing so (like Faith here).

That's the same response I got not long after I submitted a ticket (per earlier in this thread).

Conformed to the needs of fitting with World Axis and Planescape by eliminating the Phlogistron and replacing it with the Astral Sea aka Astral Plane, which can apparently now be accessed physically if you go far enough out in Wild Space.

Starting at Level 0 helps with a lot of the action trope fatigue. Start players off with just the origin features (species, background, origin feat) - the tool training would go a long way to them having a career prior to full on adventuring. The 3 NPC classes from Tasha's and Essentials Kit...

Just excelled out a spreadsheet of art objects, trade goods, money, weapons, armor, mounts, vehicles, etc, for the sake of understanding the economy. That said, Eberron didn't give us prices for their magical vehicles, nor did Descent Into Avernus nor Acquisitions Incorporated. I was able to...

Is it intentional that Barbarians and Fighters can only change a single weapon mastery per long rest while Paladins, Rangers, and Rogues can change any or both of their masteries per long rest? Seems like an oversight, though maybe it was a balancing issue for those two classes in particular...