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The sample adventures are pretty decent, and should be a good example on pacing for an adventuring day

Pathfinder and Tales of the Valiant would like to disagree on this. And sure, you can say because it's Paizo, a direct WotC competitor, but Call of Cthulhu has the Keeper Rulebook, which is their DMG. Drakkenheim series also follow this, and they're 5E (two books with a MM in development).

And the thing is, you can still use the cut content from 2014 if you really want to and should be compatible with some tweaks. For example, I know people--specially experienced DMs--bemoan that the in-depth monster creation rules aren't in the new DMG, but a new DM will probably not go out of...

I specifically remember Chris Perkins in one of WotC's videos say that very same expression: show not tell. He said the create campaign chapter provided guidelines, but rather than tell you how build one detail by detail, they would use the Greyhawk setting to show an example of what you need to...

I believe both Chris Perkins and James Wyatt mentioned that they dropped some things from 2014 going into the new books because they believe weren't necessary for new DMs or that hardly saw use. They didn't mention what those things were, but some of the tables that got removed are probably part...

I expect that sometime in the next 3 years we will get a combined XGE and TCE book that also has all the things they cut from the 2014 book. This will be the Advanced DM Guide

To get back on topic, Monty Martin from Dungeon Dudes mentioned on their encounter video that he used the new encounter rules on one of their live games, and it was challenging enough they had a few close calls. This to me looks promising

Yeah, guy thinks he's being funny 😂

I don't think the spell needs to be changed--specially when it was changed to work how players were already using it--just because some are deliberately trying to pull another peasant railgun.

They do...however, who do you think tries to do one or more of those more often than not? Players; specially those that want to be the best in the table and to win the game (aka video game mentality).

I did get an email from DDB saying to disregard emails from test@dndbeyond

My god man. That passage is specifically about players exploiting the rules. This just showed your bias front and center. Let's go over them quick: Rules aren't physics: aka don't try to pull the peasant railgun, or the cleric lawnmower, or CWB turkeybowl Game is not an economy: don't try to...

The summon spells come from XGE and Tasha's; they're not new. But with their inclusion in the PHB, it made the conjure spells redundant, so they changed those instead.

So I checked my card account, and I currently have two charges for the same amount from DDB. This really looks like it was a double charge and they're cancelling one of them; at least for me. Edit: this was posted by a mod on the DDB forums,

Eh, no. WotC dropped the easy column and shifted everything to the right. The new Low is equivalent to 2014 medium; moderate is old hard and 2024 hard is old deadly. A few content creators have already released videos about it. Also, Dungeon Dudes in their video about encounters said their...

They're not cancelling your original order per se, but a double booking that the Marketplace seems to trigger when they ship your book. If you look at your order history, you can see the status of your order; mine says shipped for the DMG and in process for the MM

Not really? WotC decided to change the conjure spells to make them different from the Summon X spells

Tomorrow there should be a WotC video coming out on Encounters & Maps. If anything, it should at least provide some insight behind their thought process for the new Encounter rules

Seriously; I am so glad WotC included this in the DMG. Most exploits fall on one or more of these, yet there are people that will shout at the clouds that they can do it. Case in point, Pack Tactics released a short calling the new Pact Keeper Rod "broken" because WotC removed the word...

I wonder how all players can grab the same turkey at the same time in the same 6 seconds a round lasts and from different locations. Instant transmission? This is where shenanigans like these fall apart 🤦