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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9193137" data-attributes="member: 11760">The Tales of the Valiant stuff is meant to serve as a replacement for WotC's 5E material if WotC goes crazy again like they did last winter and threatens to make it difficult to publish 5E stuff independently. (That saga ended with WotC making it close to impossible to try that again, but never say never with corporate America.)There are some minor rules changes between ToV and the 2014 WotC D&amp;D ruleset -- inspiration is changed to another sort of player token, for instance -- but by and large, you can use material from either company, both WotC's D&amp;D and KP's ToV, without any real difficulty.The ToV Monster Vault doesn't have any of the monsters that WotC maintains tight IP control over, like mind flayers, and uses different flavor&nbsp; and lore for a lot of other monsters, but what we've seen of it (including in a preview PDF with dozens of pages of monsters) looks excellent, especially if you're not worried about official WotC lore (I don't use WotC settings myself, so WotC lore is basically meaningless to me). They also include a lot of new or new-to-me monsters (I suspect some are Midgard monsters with the serial numbers filed off), so it should be a meaty tome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9193137, member: 11760"] The Tales of the Valiant stuff is meant to serve as a replacement for WotC's 5E material if WotC goes crazy again like they did last winter and threatens to make it difficult to publish 5E stuff independently. (That saga ended with WotC making it close to impossible to try that again, but never say never with corporate America.) There are some minor rules changes between ToV and the 2014 WotC D&D ruleset -- inspiration is changed to another sort of player token, for instance -- but by and large, you can use material from either company, both WotC's D&D and KP's ToV, without any real difficulty. The ToV Monster Vault doesn't have any of the monsters that WotC maintains tight IP control over, like mind flayers, and uses different flavor and lore for a lot of other monsters, but what we've seen of it (including in a preview PDF with dozens of pages of monsters) looks excellent, especially if you're not worried about official WotC lore (I don't use WotC settings myself, so WotC lore is basically meaningless to me). They also include a lot of new or new-to-me monsters (I suspect some are Midgard monsters with the serial numbers filed off), so it should be a meaty tome. [/QUOTE]

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