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I backed the Kickstarter for The Crooked Moon and recently started reading through the PDF (the hardback doesn't arrive until fall). One of the new subclasses is for barbarians called Path of the Experiment, in which you can use different serums and compounds while raging to create different...

I wouldn't stare too hard into the tea leaves because I doubt all of these options are sincere. There were three subclasses for Bigby's in the Unearthed Arcana but only one made into the final book. I feel like the College of Spirits and the Undead Warlock are red herrings because Van Richten's...

Summary of the video: Reanimator Artificer with modular Construct companion College of Spirits Bard rebooted from Van Richten's, spirit guardians at 6th level Grave Domain Cleric rebooted from Xanathar's Hollow Warden Ranger, based on folk horror and cryptid mythology, vampiric healing ability...

Honestly the product I'm most intrigued by is the one not listed in the poll: the October mystery book. Is it a Magic: The Gathering setting? A do-over of some older product, like how Tyranny of Dragons combined two books under one cover? All we know is that it's not a full-length adventure...

Dungeon Magazine published a handful of adventures for the Masque of Red Death setting that maybe you could adapt with a minimum of work. Issue 55. The Sea Wolf. Lycanthrope on a steamboat. Issue 61. Jigsaw. Frankenstein's monster in Switzerland. Issue 67. Fall's Run. Train snowed in by a...

Mere of Dead Men all the way!!

Peace be upon you ✌️ I don't want the thread to spiral negatively. All I'm saying is the opinion that Neverwinter isn't a real city is a bit of a wild take. IIRC the third act of the 2023 D&D movie is set in Neverwinter and it very much resembled an urban landscape. Side note: Some weeks ago in...

Oh you gravely misunderstand my attitude -- I'm over here laughing at my keyboard. I just don't why you bothered to make the poll in the first place. Guys I made a poll who's your favorite Jedi Knight from Star Wars? Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Captain Kirk, or Count Chocula? But you can't vote...

So instead of asking a multiple-choice question you really want us to make an A/B binary choice, and when you ask which city we like best, we're supposed to understand that some of the cities we consider cities aren't really cities because waves hands. Your "Criteria...entirely up to you"...

Too few choices. Definitely need to add Sigil, Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter, and maybe Menzoberranzan. Plus a few wild cards like the City of Brass.

Ha. I should check out A5E more often -- I do have Trials & Treasures -- but I'm already a Kobold Press partisan when it comes to monsters. I love the Creature Codex.

I happened to have Kobold Press's Tales of the Valiant SRD -- which is completely free, BTW -- open so I compared KP's Air Elemental with the new version from the Monster Manual. Both have the same ability modifiers, CR, Auran language, etc. The KP version has 94 hp vs MM's 90 hp. Notable...

All I want from Wizards is restorations and revivals of their existing IPs to save me the work of doing it myself. I don't want, say, a crafting book from Wizards because I know there are already dozens out there that have been done better by 3PP. Even the Fizban/Bigby books (I enjoyed Glory of...

Two things I can never have enough of: adventure anthologies and setting books to cannibalize. Anthologies with updated adventures from 2e, 3e, and 4e rather than B/X and 1e. Give me 5.5e versions of Barrow of the Forgotten King and Madness at Gardmore Abbey. Nentir Vale setting book that...

Also, during his fifth voyage, Sinbad is tricked by an old man into carrying him across a river, but the old man refuses to dismount and rides Sinbad around like a horse -- hag-riding. Eventually Sinbad gets the old man drunk and kills him. There's definitely precedent in folklore and literature.

This works. Somebody upthread said they use trolls instead. Ogres, trolls, oni -- any kind of lesser giant makes sense IMO. In European mythology there is a lot of crossover between giants and witches/hags; I'm thinking specifically of Baba Yaga and Iceland's Grýla. But like all things D&D...

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WotC trying to bury the truth that ogre magi are the male hags.

Thank you. Whenever I see someone getting upset about wheelchairs or how Shaolin monks in the game are somehow culturally inappropriate I'm reminded of a scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron where Hawkeye says to the Scarlet Witch: "You have magic powers. I'm using a bow and arrow to fight an army...

This is probably the best answer. At first blush it would seem anything beginning with "arch-" and followed by a vowel (archaeology, archetype, Archimedes, archon) makes it a hard K, but then "archenemy" exists. "Archfiend," which uses the CH, is a closer comparison to "archfey" than...