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How about an apples to apples comparison? Mage Hand Presses Gunslinger class is available on D&D Beyond. You get a base class, six subclasses, some feats and spells, new guns and a few mechanics. All integrated into the chargen. For $14.99. MHP sells the exact same material as a PDF on their...

As a general rule, I dislike forced demographics. I don't get to play a PC as often as I wish, and I would hate to have to pick human because my friend wants to play a half-orc. A long time DM I knew had a demographic rule: he was left-handed and hated when people picked left-handedness to "be...

My Ravenloft game was the best and worst example of player's grabbing the theme. They consisted of: * A human blood hunter (ghosthunter) *A Dhampir bard (lore) *A Hexblood cleric of Ezra (twilight) *A human artificer (reanimator, custom made before the horror UA) *A reborn sorcerer (shadow) and...

I've been arguing for a while D&D needs a real default setting that defines the place of everything in the setting, like Midguard for TotV or Golarion for Pathfinder. It would solve a lot of the headaches D&D has for trying to support 11 settings.

I think the level of fantastical is definitely a factor, because determines how common a specific species is and how integrated they are. A setting like Middle Earth only has a half-dozen types of non-humans (elves, dwarves, hobbits, goblins, orcs, trolls) and they are both isolated and...

I have a player who has played D&D for almost 30 years and is sick of elves dwarves and humans. He will play the weirdest thing you can offer every time. He's not a bad player, but he's always going to be the odd man out. Some players are just like that.

It depends on how fantastical a world you want is. Typical D&D worlds are full of sentient humanlike creatures. It makes sense that some would be part of society or even adventurers. I can certainly see a design model where their are few humanoid species (Tolkien has very few humanoids but...

It's another example of how digital media is priced to keep the paper version of the same media competitive.

Part of the issue is that old demihuman design paradigm where the classic PC races got homelands and monsters spring up from the ground already patrolling dungeons. And even then, gnomes, halflings and sometimes dwarves get the short end of the stick (pun intended) when it comes to having full...

Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone has PC gargoyle stats. What I want is a way to summon them again. In 5.14, Conjure Minor Elementals could summon gargoyles (as they were elementals) but when the summons were added and CME changed, you lost that ability. I'd love a separate summon gargoyle spell...

Beyond is a VTT, character generator, interactive character sheet, online database and e-commerce site. It's a little more complicated than hosting the SRD.

My 46 year old stigmatic, far-sighted eyes beg to differ!

If you think server farms are free, I can give you the power bill of a major data center to pay. Server farms are getting hella expensive to run, with AI servers consuming the power equivalent of whole cities. One of the biggest issues we're going to have to deal with is how resource hungry the...

I was wondering if it was meatier than Astarion or Netheril. I think I got my answer.

That's why they call it Wizards of the Coast! 😉 Then again, I get the notion we're never going to see a setting detailed as deeply as the old "separate line" era. Eberron was essentially the end of that style of setting coverage. I actually don't think I would want the old era of multiple lines...

I remember when we thought this was going to be a full scale book!

I was just pointing out how much someone who started in 5e would have setting support without relying on converting or wikis.

The only setting that meets that criteria is Forgotten Realms. Eberron had two books and two Adventure League paths, and Ravenloft had an adventure, a book, and a AL path. Still, it beats what every other setting so far has gotten.

Well, Wildemont got an AP (Netherdeep) and Darrington Press released a large amount of 3pp support. If any setting had a chance, it was that one. But you kinda supported my point; so far only Faerun, Eberron and Ravenloft got any sort of ongoing support. SJ, PS, DL, and GH all have token support...

Is this worth the $15?