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It hasn't been a year yet for the 2024 PHB, but it's been more than a year since they've been included in the playtests and almost a year since we've seen some art for them from the PHB previews? We've definitely had the classic Stone Goliaths as the vision of what Goliaths were since 3.5e, but...

So assuming it's a campaign setting that's roughly in the 1800s for technology and other things, and still a highly magical world. Especially a Steampunk with magitech type setting, but also other fiction that generally takes place in that century like Gothic Victorian Horror and Westerns...

Of the utility Cantrips, Prestidigitation seems to be the most versatile to use in a lot of situations (cleaning, making chores simpler, showing off), but what of the others like Thaumaturgy, Druidcraft and Elementalism which seem to be a lot more limited in their capabilities? I'm thinking in...

So I'm thinking on the concept of a great underwater empire that spans all the seas in a world and might be the most powerful nation in that world. They might have originally been from the surface before their great city sank into the ocean, or they just might have been in the ocean this whole...

So Druids can most definitely use Muskets if they go for the Warden Primal Order. And while they don't have True Strike on their spell list they could probably get that easily enough with the right feat or species choice, so it'll make sense that a Druid with a Musket would probably use True...

Something needs to be done on an eclipse, some the powerful archmage wishes for there to be an eclipse. They were cautious enough to mention it should happen almost immediately, so that the wish wouldn't transport them to a time when there was or will be an eclipse. Could their wish cause a...

There's quite a few quotes in the new Monster Manual and this time more noteworthy than the ones in the 2014 MM. Some of them are characters like Iuz or Tasha/Iggwilv. One of them is Vi in the Blob of Annihilation entry using perhaps the first instance of a certain 4 letter word in 5e at...

I noticed that some monsters in the new MM have gotten different default alignments. Most noticeable are Goblins being Chaotic Neutral (formerly Neutral Evil) and Kobolds being Neutral (formerly Lawful Evil) now. We've certainly seen the shift of Goblins becoming an unruly trickster type fey...

Often brought up on the subject of Goblins being Fey in the Monster Manual, but I feel that species such as Goblins, Hobgoblins and Bugbears which are Humanoids as PCs but have the Fey Ancestry Trait where they get Advantage on saves against and to end the Charmed condition is usually more...

This is related to the idea that Owlbears must somehow be creations of Wizards because they're a combination of different animals. Well we have the Platypus a creature that's a weird combinations of something like a Beaver with a Duck, surely that must be just as magical as an Owlbear. And if...

In 3e that Goblins were any colour but green, even though in everyone's mind Goblins are mostly green but with a wider variety of colours than Humans typically are. In 5e they stopped mentioning any particular colours for what a Goblin's skin might be. In the PHB I've noticed that they...

I thought a little of the different types of focuses for casters, including ones that casters don't currently get in the rules like Ritual Dagger/Athame and thought what if there's something special spellcasters could get if they decided to really focus on a type of focus. I feel it would be an...

I've always found it amusing that Dinosaurs have been ever present in D&D. But I'm wondering how common or rare are they in your campaigns, for something that's extinct in our world. Are they everywhere, or only live in secluded places? Based on some more recent findings about Dinosaurs, do...

So I'm thinking of a theoretical campaign where the Planar Trade Consortium is one of the major conflicts, taking up 1 out of 3 if using the Rule-Of-Three theme. The other 2 might be Sigilian gangsters and the Far Realm's influence. But the conflict with the Planar Trade Consortium would be one...

We sort have already got some previews with the Scions of Elemental Evil adventure, for the MM which will come out in February. I definitely think big previews will start in January, but I feel smaller previews might be in December after all there's a lot of monsters, and they just need to...

In the 2024 PHB Bards only get proficiency in all simple weapons, and lose proficiency in rapiers and whips. I'm aware that for many Bards they'll probably never bother to use a rapier unless they take one of the subclasses that grant them all weapon proficiencies at 3rd level, but using a...