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In future anthologies and retrospectives and special editions, Lost Mine of Phandelver will be frequently included and Shattered Obelisk might be mentioned quickly as a footnote.

The most recent for me is Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. It has serious overarching flaws but I found them really easy to fix, and there is a LOT of great detail work, and it plays heavily into what I consider 5E's strong suite (site-based adventures with good maps that can mostly be...

Generally, yes. But the spells thing can be an issue currently in DNDBeyond. You can have 2024 and 2014 characters in the same campaign with minimal issues. But having two spells with the same name that work differently can cause unwanted confusion at the table - and DNDBeyond right now has a...

The secrets of the web are revealed and our adventurers come face to chitinous face with the Spider Queen. Episode 15 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and E.N. Publishing, is now available on YouTube!

I like the alt cover more after seeing the full cover and the back. I’m troubled by the idea that the format the 2024 DM’s Guide takes with the sample adventures is something WotC plans to use with actual published adventures and not home brew ones - I thought the point of the ones in the DM’s...

Looking at Jones' website, I actually wish she had gone FURTHER into psychedelia with her cover, as many of her other pieces do: Justine Jones Illustration. I hope she wasn't asked to dial it back.

If they were created using 2014, they should still be 2014. You may need to go into the character editor and make sure the "Legacy Content" box is ticked. You may also need to take a look at their spells in particular and make sure the sheet isn't pulling in 2024 spells. Otherwise, should be...

Ascending the deadly peak of Skull Mountain. PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon episode 25 is now available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: To Slay a Dragon: Part 25

During the dev updates they just keep saying "WotC has said that a new SRD will be released shortly after the new Monster Manual". TBH it doesn't really seem like they have any info the general public doesn't have.

What surprises me is how convinced the devs seem that we're getting a 5.5 SRD any day now. If I was them, I'd stick with what's already in Creative Commons and add my own stuff, not make any bets on what will and won't be in a 5.5 SRD, or when it will be available.

If you mean financially, Ravnica sold extremely well, Theros sold well, Strixhaven struggled a bit. If you mean creatively, Theros is excellent, Ravnica is good, Strixhaven is mostly an adventure book (and among the weakest official 5E adventures in a hardcover format).

Played about 90 minutes of the demo. Graphics vastly improved. Combat still very fun. Encounter design is improved in terms of offering more than one way to approach encounters. Dialogue still dreadful, but for me the terrible dialogue has become part of the charm in Solasta. I hope characters...

I don't think TotM is less deadly (we had a TPK in Cragmaw Hideout, for example). I think complaints that 5E is too easy don't have a universal answer, but often boils down to some combination of three factors, none of which have to do with TotM vs minis/battlemaps/VTT: Player skill...

I enjoy both, but I find that not many people want to play theater of the mind in this era. It was how I played exclusively in the 1E and 2E eras. I did run the entirety of Lost Mine of Phandelver TotM when I first got back into D&D in 2017, and it went perfectly fine. I disagree with the...

So, I don't want to complain too much about a free thing, but Hold Back the Dead is kind of a mess. It reads like the remnants of some larger thing that got canceled. I suspect that it started life as a multi-table epic meant to be played at some kind of launch party event for that campaign...

Three recommendations: Spelljammer: Encounters in Wildspace Spelljammer: Encounters in Wildspace - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild 6 short adventures and a bunch of additional encounters A Space Hamster's Guide to Spelljammer A Space Hamster's Guide to Spelljammer - Dungeon...

There are chapters that absolutely can be cannibalized out of the context of the main campaign, but imo more than half of the chapters only make sense as part of the overarching plot. There are stand-alone Spelljammer adventures available on DMsGuild that would support what you’re trying to do.

FWIW, my company's actual play of To Slay a Dragon using Level Up: A5E. You can see how Strife, Supply, Fatigue, Maneuvers, and some of the different spells and magic items, etc. work. In general, Level Up characters are stronger than 2014 characters, but not so much so that you can't use 2014...

I've had occasional instances of somewhat less experienced players expecting certain abilities or spells to function more like they do in BG3. For instance, in a game a couple of weeks ago, a cleric tried to "lawnmower" enemies with Spirit Guardians like you can in the game (in the 2024 rules...

I am surprised at the focus on younger audiences since the biggest breakthrough successes for D&D in the past decade (Critical Role and Baldur's Gate 3) are very much teens & up, R-rated, and didn't set out to please the whole family. I would take my cue from that if I was them.