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Totally agree that Drunken Monk and Oathbreaker are two concepts smashed into one. I'll go one further and say Cavalier and Storm Herald are a thematic mess, too. Cavalier is a combination of defender mechanics and mounted combat mechanics. I would really prefer to have these split in two. I...

Very practical breakdown, Mike. Keen to hear your thoughts in more detail! This is an unpopular opinion, but I don't think the 3E FRCS is all that great. It's a lot of: "This place has a powerful wizard. And a forest. In the forest are ogres and trolls." Wash, rinse, repeat. It may be...

That's kinda brilliant.

I have one player who used it in a previous campaign and I am pretty sure I'll ban it from future campaigns...along with Rope Trick. Just leads to some dumb play that isn't fun and breaks my sense of immersion.

Okay, that's not exactly what @mearls said. But here's an excerpt from the latest post on his Patreon. Legendary resistance is a cheap hack, jammed into 5e because we didn't have a better solution to the broken control spells that we had to include in the game for tradition's sake. How's that...

IMHO the 5E design team has previewed some cool mechanics and they've almost always been rejected by the community. Kind of a bummer.

According to Jeremy Crawford, that's exactly what people wanted. Their survey results said players didn't want to learn a new mechanic unique to a class. He said this in one of the Unearthed Arcana videos on YouTube I don't know how many years ago.

Yes. Looks like there's about 3 pages on Anauroch in FR: Heroes of Faerun. Here's the section on Shade: Empire of Shadows Anauroch is littered with the ruins of the ancient empire of Netheril, which fell in a magical cataclysm almost 3,000 years ago. Some of these ruins lie frozen in ice, their...

This.

Sounds cool. I like it. Basically, it fits nicely with the info in the new FR campaign setting about Anauroch and Shade. I think you would also want a Zhentarim presence since they control the Black Road and would take a dim view of anyone trying to establish an independent power base. The...

No piety system. It's mostly just lore about the major gods and their organizations.

It's clear that these books assume the 5E adventures happened in the recent past (within the last 10 years in-world). But there's no reason you can't still run them. You could use the default setting assumptions in those adventures or mix them with elements from these new setting books. The...

To the OP, you are doing God's work. I have a 6 year old and 9 year old who I am introducing to D&D. First, Shadowdark is a great intro to roleplaying games. It's the new Basic D&D. Second, there's a great campaign specifically designed for introducing kids to D&D called Hidden Halls of...

Not to be pedantic but it first started to appear in late 3.5E.

The interest and even obsession with Forgotten Realms canon is almost incomprehensible to me. What I like about FR is that it's a lot. A lot of a lot. Just so much stuff. I take the things that are useful and resonant and I discard the rest. I have virtually no investment in what's "official".

Oath of the Noble Genies also doubles nicely for a dragon-themed paladin.

The version of Icewind Dale presented here is different than Rime of the Frost Maiden. Canonically it's a decade after the events in RotFM but practically you could mix and match elements to make the version of Icewind Dale you prefer. The "new" version continues the survival horror theme.

There's some comments here about lore being changed or even retconned. It's more accurate to say the timeline has advanced. Here are approximate years for recent editions... 1E: 1357 2E: 1368 3E: 1380s 4E: 1480s 5E: 1490s 1501 is the year for this new FR campaign setting.

I've been browsing Adventures in Faerun for the last 10 minutes and my kneejerk, utterly non-scientific reaction is: Totally Awesome.

ALL THE DAMN TIME