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WotC is VERY opposed to it on principle, if Mark Rosewater is to be believed. Honestly a huge part of what makes MtG stand out in the card game world to this day is the beautiful and imaginative art, and they would NOT want to jeopardize those sales with AI Slop (and beacuse of how lucrative...

I really like the textual updates from KB and team, though there are a lot of glitches in the integration into D&D Beyond (from linking to the wrong version of monsters when the text is specifically discussing the difference between using 2014 and 2025 versions of the same monsters. The Planes...

I've found Keith Baker's 5E Eberron books like Exploring Eberron are really good at getting into the mindsets of non-humans and really leaning into their fantasy and the mindsets that arise from those rather than just being planet-of-hats species.

Or beyond/beneath the sea or under the hills, presumably. Lots of Faerie-stories of high/pretty fey characters that Elves can represent.

I just bought Valda's Spire of Secrets: Player Pack on DDB, and I think the Paladin and Wizard subclasses in there would make for a LOT of raucus carousing fun when combined with the downtime rules from XGtE. :)

I prefer more encounters and short rests between Long Rests, but I've also eliminated direct XP so leveling up after 2-3 long rests isn't a thing that happens. We level up when it feels right for the narrative and party, based on accomplishments and quests completed etc.

I'd argue that 5E still runs rules on partial recovery and player agency. It's just nested in the "exhaustion" rules.

In my game, elemental energy is harvested to power magitech engines, mined as "Elemental Ether" from Ethereal Plane border crossings (with renaissance clockwork diving suits and chain lines to keep the miners from being lost in the ethereal mists, or worse, somehow end up in the Feywild or a...

Genis and Raine Sage, certainly. And pretty much all the Half-elves in Tales of Symphonia.

forming new NPC bonds at risks of forming new rivals. Downtime rules in XGtE

Aether as a fifth element was really more of an understanding of the circles of the world – Earth/Water/Air/Fire/the Pure Air beyond the Fire. Aether literally means pure air in Homeric Greek, though it took on a sort of mix of the Fire and Air properties later in connection to the Phlogistron...

Sorry, yes – what I was trying to say was that 4E Essentials upset the 3rd Party ecosystem too for 4E (albeit how tiny that was due to the GSL compared to the OGL's 3rd Party ecosystem in 3E). What I meant by my response was that 5E isn't causing 3rd Party ecosystem whiplash in the same way...

The RAI / RAF / RAW divide in 5E may just be a feature, not a bug. But 2024 Revised 5E definitely tried to be more specific in certain cases, like with terms like Proficiency. In past editions, Proficiency meant the same thing as Training, but in 5E, it's tied to the Proficiency bonus, and...

I mean, 4E Essentials did the same thing for 4th Edition (or at least, the thankfully free errata for older books are so large that they replace pages upon pages, and even then, the newer options were not made in assumption with balance in mind with the older options). And 2E Revised aka...

Thank you. I agree with this point. I throw a random interruption every so often. There have been counters like the above where there wasn't time to ritual cast. But it's rare. But it's rare. I'm not trying to cause bad wrong fun, nor to railroad the encounters (nor to overshine them with DM...

Even if Griffon's Saddlebag Book 2 wasn't previously updated, Keith Baker has said specifically on BlueSky that Exploring Eberron is being updated to be more compatible with the 2024 Revised 5e Core Rules for when it releases on D&D Beyond. More details on what that means, to come. I expect it...

I'm glad I bought a copy when I saw it on shelves at my FLGS back in the fall. I don't prefer it to 5E D&D, but I do like it!

I really like the development of subclasses that defy original class stereotype tropes but still fit into the broader narrative of the class. Examples – Path of the Zealot Barbarian gives a largely Cleric/Paladin style Divine flavor while Barbarians normally have more in common with Rangers and...

You're correct. That of course requires 11-mins to cast (or 110 rounds of the Bard/Wizard/etc-Caster taking the Magic Action on their turn). And if they've kept themselves hidden thus far or silently eliminated the threats thus far in the dungeon, they may have those 11-mins uninterrupted to...

Species, Backgrounds, and Feats, too. All of the Species and variant/sub-Species need retooling to remove Ability Score modifiers and some need to be rebalanced with an equivalently useful non-ribbon feature to make up for said loss. Some of the Variant/Sub Species need to be completely...