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I'm with you on this. The point of the MM is to provide the DM with tools, not restrictions. Even if they wanted us to use the generic humanoid statblocks, rules on customizing by species would have been welcome. As it is, this is just a bridge too far for me. Took six editions, but I am finally...

As a follow up, here's a freebie for what WotC could have done in the MM 2025: Orc page: talk for more than 2 paragraphs about the new orcs. Give us a feel for them. Give us three statblocks: Orc Nomad, Orc Pathfinder of Gruumsh, Orc Tradesman. BAM! We have an entirely new representation on...

I have my MM 2025 now and while it has some interesting stuff and improvements, I think I am most bothered by the organizational structure. I am secondarily irritated that phylactery is too esoteric (I cannot imagine who may have been offended at the term's use) for mainstream player audiences...

If there's one thing I'm getting out of all this is that it's like 1989 all over again.

D&D 3.0 did it just fine.

Maybe orcs and drow will return with dedicated stat blocks in a year or two in a future book. They can even get a cool new name like Tanar'ri or Baatezu or something.....

Also the age old problem of it being much easier for a crunch fan to ignore flavor text than it is for a flavor text fan to have to add in missing lore to a contextless statblock.

As an ancient DM I would much rather have some actual flavored statblocks for Drow, Orcs, Duergar and Deep Gnomes that I can use precisely because they are tailored to each species. Unfortunately, having to manually "add flavor" to generic statblocks is not ideal. Heck, I wish they had...

As a home campaign DM I only really have use for books with content I can crib for my own use. Much harder to do that with full length adventures, much easier with short form adventures. That said, the DM I rotate with only uses the big books, so each form has appeal to certain styles.

This change seems cool and even possibly appropriate to me. It's only issue is in the way D&D hard codes classifications, such as the humanoid group not being a description of something with two arms, two legs, a torso and a head that walks upright, but rather a group of things subject to hold...

Monster Manual II for sure. Maybe an Advanced Player's Handbook and Advanced DMG and/or a "Alternative Rules Tome" that reintroduces the idea of gritty mechanics and other options that are currently 2014 relics, or never made in to 5E Also, a modern "Lords of Madness: Aberrations" guidebook, and...

Won't lie, the new MM is looking really good right now. I'm very excited for this to come out!

Those were just terrible, and honestly, its why the only aftermarket monster books you can find anymore from the 2E days are the later bound Compendiums, because that original Monstrous Manual pretty much guaranteed loss through wear and tear, falling out pages, misplaced pages.....it was (I...

I voted Roll20 because it is what I bought in to and am comfortable with, but I recently discovered Alchemy VTT and it may well be my replacement of choice (at least, for some games). I have been a player in Shard but find it rough as a GM, and I bought Foundry and messed around with it but...

I've been eager to run Dragonbane, my group has agreed to adopt it starting next week for the New Year, so very excited.

I wonder who the dev team is composed of.....it will be weird having a T&T game with none of the old guard attached to it.

Alien 2E, the new Conan RPG and OSRIC 3.0 have me intrigued. There are a metric ton of games on the list I have never heard of before, though, so as more info comes out some of those might grab my attention.

I enjoyed Dark Alliance, but yeah it was too much of an arcade style experience and not even spiritually connected to the original Dark Alliance games, both of which have been updated for modern consoles and PC.

Those are really different styles of games, though, and appeal in specific ways that are not universal. I explored PbtA heavily (got into AW, DW and a few others) and I realized I really intensely dislike their approach, which feels to me extremely procedural and counter-intuitive to the...

I've experienced this phenomenon in SW games on two occasions, one as the GM and once as the player. Poor luck and poor player synergy can lead to the problem, but after I encountered it as a GM I shied away from the system for a while (we're talking all the way back to original 1E SW days). I...