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Strahd as an antagonist seems distinctly ... unimaginative, I have to say. No author attached seems odd. April is only 7 months away, the thing must be pretty much complete by now given my (very imperfect...) understanding of the printing/editing lead times of such things.

Counterpoint - "Bargle" is a terrible name and would only provoke gales of laughter from a group these days, unless they were loooong marinated in Gygax-era D&D lore.

I <3 mutants and masterminds, but these days it carries just a little too much outdated d20 mechanical baggage for me to be entirely happy with it any more. Even moving from measuring distances in 5ft battlemap squares to range bands like FFG Star Wars or the Alien RPG would be a nice...

There’s probably other old FR critters that could make an appearance. Gibberlings don’t have an official 5e incarnation yet do they? Tren. Lythari. Fey’Ri. You wouldn’t want all the monsters in the book to be high-level stuff like phaerimm and maulagryms. I’m sure they’ll make up some new...

I'm pretty sure that it was the stained glass golem that had a prismatic spray attack, which was a very cool idea that i definitely want to use one day. Possibly it was an old 2e Ravenloft monster, from memory?

That seems more than a bit of a stretch. Assassin is still there, as you point out. So is the vengeance paladin, the fiend and great old one warlocks, and they even added the aberrant sorcerer. The only ‘evil-adjacent’ subclass removed between the 2014 PHB and the new one is necromancer, and...

The true test is whether it lets you make Nobby.

This looks a lot to me like the sort of job ad you post when company policy says that all positions must be publicly advertised but you already have a specific favoured candidate in mind (or possibly even the position was created when that candidate became available) and you've had a quiet word...

Metis are soon launching a kickstarter based on Venice, the latest in their 5e Historica Arcanum line. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metismediarpg/historica-arcanum-echoes-of-renaissance-5e?ref=be6z2f I own a couple of their products. I don’t always agree with their game mechanical or...

And with making Strength matter for anyone who isn’t a Strength-primary warrior.

Methinks you've made this thread before @Snarf Zagyg ! https://www.enworld.org/threads/lorraine-williams-is-it-time-for-a-reevaluation.683454/ But I think you're perhaps bending over a little too far backwards to be fair to her here. Let's be clear, Williams certainly saved TSR from being...

First of all, D&D is, for me, a game about telling stories. Killing monsters is inevitably a part of the stories that D&D generally tells, but it's not the be all and end all. There's LOTS of stuff we'd be hacking out of the game if we decided that killing monsters was all there was. Social...

Did poor old Color Spray get any love?

Yeah this, 100%. Crafting is, in my preferences, a story element rather than a part of the routine 'win the next fight' gameplay loop. I mean, The Crystal Shard, which was the first ever D&D novel i read and was what sucked me into the whole hobby in the first place, has an important scene...

Does anyone have any recommendations for alternate crafting rulesets? My PCs (3rd level) are thinking about brewing some healing potions, but are finding the rules for crafting so thoroughly discouraging that they're wondering whether it's worth the bother. An entire full-time work week to...

Oof, after a bit more of a look into it, I'm a no for backing Victoriana. Shipping to Australia is more than the cost of the book. There's a gameshop not too far from me that stocks C7 stuff, I'll try to pick it up once it's released to the general market. Have any other habitual KS-backers...

Pretty sure I've made something VERY similar to this thread before! Although i was more raising the possibility of making it a player choice rather than a flat-out change in casting stat. https://www.enworld.org/threads/alternate-caster-stats.697271/ I'd go with allowing Wis sorcerers and Int...

Holy … they FINALLY actually got around to kickstarting Victoriana?! That’s been vapourware and promises and missed deadlines for literal years, I’d given up on it.

I run that if your target is benefiting from a cover bonus to AC, and if you miss by an amount less than the cover bonus, then you hit the cover. Often that'll have no effect at all, but if it's one of your allies obscuring your view of your target, or something flammable getting in the way of...

I think it must vary by location. I'm on a facebook 'looking for game' group for my city, and every time I've posted there I get multiple expressions of interest within a day, even for my weeknight in-person game in a hard-to-get-to far-flung outer suburb. Trying to find a DM - now THAT'S...