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They use “board game” so pervasively in the Stranger Things set’s marketing copy in the DNDBeyond marketplace description that at first I honestly wasn’t totally sure it was actually D&D adventures.

I wanted Honor Among Thieves to have an epilogue scene where we learned that Chris Pine was a D&D character and the player was Patton Oswalt.

You'll be forgiven for having forgotten this, but Keys from the Golden Vault was promoted as a tie-in product at the time of the movie's release, and the book released I believe 2-3 weeks before the movie. One of the adventures in the book is a prison break set in Revel's End (the Icewind Dale...

Huh. Did anybody like the ones in the DMG? I wanted to, but I sure didn't.

The way these work is that the media outlet (in this case Game Informer) pays for a limited-time exclusive. Once the time elapses, the story gets shared more broadly. I wouldn't call "getting a media outlet to pay you to promote your own product" a marketing failure by any stretch.

"Devil, Metal, Die!" and "Scream of the Crop"

Just wanted to flag that, on DNDBeyond at least, WotC has fixed the misplaced treasure pile/centipedes map error on the lair map for Death at Sunset. I'm not sure if they'll be stopping by my place to correct my print copy though.

I feel like this UA is the first UA where a design priority was pretty clearly "only have this subclass do stuff that DNDBeyond is already coded to do."

When the PHB was released.

PHB was officially released Sep 17, but DNDBeyond paid subscribers got it on Sep 3. The small spike in July 2024 might actually be Quests from the Infinite Staircase.

I would think summer in general would be an ebb for DNDBeyond usage, but we have July 2024 vs 2025 being down year-over-year. I agree it's not a complete story, but what we have on that chart is not a very good story less than a year removed from the 2024 books launching.

Kinda supports the general vibe I'm getting that the new era isn't doing all that well. However, the story will be much clearer if we get a full two years of data.

I decided to do a podcast episode based on the write-ups I did in this thread. If interested, you can listen wherever fine podcasts are heard in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed or here: Power Word TALk: July 2025

I'm honestly surprised they are hyping this aspect so much. Dragon Delves is a very good book, and these "guidelines" might be the weakest thing in it.

I'd argue they are stronger in 2024. 5 legendary resistances instead of 3, and they have a legendary action which turns them invisible and lets them fly, and they have a legendary action shatter spell which they can do anywhere - the comparable 2014 ability they could only do in their lair. They...

I don't know about that. It's a CR 23 creature with generous legendary actions and legendary resistances, and they would NOT be facing it fresh as daisies either.

My final rankings: Dragons of the Sandstone City - level 12, blue dragon Baker’s Doesn’t - level 3, gold dragon Shivering Death - level 11, white dragon The Will of Orcus - level 4, silver dragon The Forbidden Vale - level 9, red dragon Copper for a Song - level 12, copper dragon Before the...

The 10th and final adventure is Dragons of the Sandstone City, also for level 12 characters. And it's a really strong finish to the book. The adventurers must enter a ruined, subterranean desert city and use the power of a brass dragon's egg to weaken an ancient blue dragon so that it can be...

The 9th adventure is Copper for a Song, for level 12 characters. I found this the hardest so far to evaluate. It's certainly imo the most original, even more so than Baker's Doesn't (or at least, a lot of the ideas in it seem fresh to me) but it also has its share of flaws. A lost magical song...