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I wish I had the creative energy of LaserLlama. ETA: Here's a link to the PDF on their Patreon if you, like me, have trouble getting GM Binder to work for you. Lonk

I'm not talking about immediately knowing the resistance and immunities of some obscure monster from Kwalish's Compendium of Creeps... I'm talking about a bog standard troll.

...Are we seriously saying that using fire on a troll is metagame knowledge in 2025? D&D Video Games insulted you for not knowing that in the 1990s!

I'd be neat to have a VTT-supported version of the game with all the best versions of each class. The A5E Berserker (Barbarian rename, not a subclass) is insanely good. I also think the Tales of the Valiant has a better take on the Ranger than 2024, though the A5E Ranger is also pretty neat in...

I must confess I have never seen Spaceballs. ...though I know a few of its more famous scenes.

I feel like you're letting them off the hook way too easily. If the classic ship combat isn't fun then they should have looked to a game with well-liked ship combat for inspiration rather than just gutting the system. Light of Xaryxis could easily have been a seperate product and it might have...

I never even noticed that you could take things from the Haversack as a bonus action. Great Scott.

Yes?... Things can accomplish more than one task. I don't even know why you're being so pedantic about this.

...Obviously. But the point of having mechanics around darkness is that it gives the game and the Narrator tools to make the game more interesting. Even if tracking torches and other dungeon logistics isn't something that interests a gaming group, you can still provide mechanical tools to make...

Every class was improved (at least from a pure numbers standpoint). The improvement to Indomitable is more about game feel and usability. In 2014 it did nothing to help you actually succeed on the save. Rolling twice is useless when you have a +1 on the save and the DC is 25. I'm pretty sure...

To me the purpose of darkness is to heighten tension, not as a gotcha to players that didn't remember to stock up on torches. Darkness facilitates stealthy monsters laying ambushes (even with darkvision, anyone without devil sight has a penalty to detect creatures hiding in darkness). It...

Does whatever a Drider Can Spins a web, Huge in Size Catches gnomes, just like flies Look out! Here comes Drider-Man!

Its one of the reasons I dislike alternate takes on Pass Without Trace that make it advantage instead of +10. Advantage doesn't really help that much if you have a -2 modifier.

Honestly I'm still trying to figure out why Hill Goliaths are yellow.

My first 5E character was a human fighter so I get it, but I'm surprised it's THAT far ahead of everything else. Then again starting with two Feats is pretty big even if they're limited to Oregano Feats.

Gary is that you? Have you returned as Gygax the White?

Honestly a huge chunk of my Monster Manual usage has been humanoids. Orcs, Gobins, Mages, and even the humble Thug (now called Tough in the newer Monster Manual). I've gotten a lot more mileage about of VGM and MTOF since I actually owned those books on Roll20 before I did the Monster Manual.

I would like to point out that even in Lord of the Rings, Gandalf cast seemingly at-will magical light on his staff and Frodo had the Light of Eärendil... so magic light sources predate D&D in fantasy by decades if not centuries.

I mean yeah it's worded differently than 5E spells usually are and I have no idea why but... like I dunno. It still makes senese to me.🤷‍♂️

Because if it fails the first save, it gets to repeat the save to end the Restrained condition. It's using one line to cover both succeeding on the initial save (thus never becoming Restrained) and succeeding on the subsequent saves (thus ending the Restrained condition).