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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8004264" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>To both of yah, I hear ya. I bought it digitally and will get the alt-cover physically when my FLGS reopens, but I'm also not looking at the races and whatnot individually. I went to Sources and picked up the book and leafed through it. The Centaur and Triton and Minotaur sections are, in fact, Therosian within the context of the book. I feel bad for anyone who went ahead wanting to buy Centaur/Triton/Minotaur as partial purchases just to have the flavor text from Theros, only to find other worlds' flavor text there, instead.</p><p></p><p>The worst of it seems to be Tritons, who were mechanically changed between Volo's Guide to Monsters and Mythic Odysseys of Theros: they now have Darkvision and no longer ignore all of the negative effects of deep underwater environments. D&D Beyond either needs to implement an alternate Triton race (like they have with Feral Tieflings, Orcs of Exandria, and Orcs of Eberron), or else they need to errata the Triton. Honestly, I would just do away with the variant Orcs race blocks and errata Orc and Triton with their updated features; Orc of Exandria and Orc of Eberron are identical in features if not in flavor text; it's a clear soft-errata on VGM.</p><p></p><p>D&D Beyond tends to update VERY slowly. They said they'd get the book online by June 2nd, which they did. You can read through the book and use its text in your games. It's not nearly as useful if you just want to isolate the text of a specific race on its own of course.</p><p></p><p>Supernatural Gifts have been a feature of D&D since the Dungeon Master's Guide, but this is a new class of Supernatural Gift that only emerged this year with Explorer's Guide to Wildemount's Hollow One and now with this book's Supernatural Gifts. From a quick search, the DMG Supernatural Gifts don't exist as a separate rule category in the "Game Rules" section. While Blessings replicate the properties of a Wondrous Item without an attunement slot, and Charms replicate the properties of a potion or spell (with a definite limit of usages), these example Supernatural Gifts ONLY show up within the context of Chapter 7 in the DMG on D&D Beyond, because there's not real way to model them without creating a full new category of game rules for misc bonus features (Supernatural Gifts: Blessings, Supernatural Gifts: Charms, Supernatural Gifts: Unnamed Theme-likes in Wildemount & Theros, Marks of Prestige, and Epic Boons). This is a weird catch all but they all are kinda like feats and kinda not like feats. I would love to see such a Game Rules feature, but it's something they'd have to actively add to the D&D Beyond pipeline, and they're extremely slow with any changes like that.</p><p></p><p>I think it's a reasonable assumption to believe they'd have their doo-doo together and add such features, especially when they knew Supernatural Gifts were a big thing coming and saw a model of such in Wildemount. But I also have low expectations of D&D Beyond's SPEED of implementing features, while admiring it for what it does have (a very versatile compendium feature). If I buy all the books, I can search "Supernatural Gifts" and get links to D&D Beyond's inclusion of all the relevant possible SGs - in the DMG, in the EGW, and in the MOT. That's fine with me, but I see how it can be very frustrating for you, especially when folks are either paying double or treating this as their buy INSTEAD of a book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8004264, member: 6803643"] To both of yah, I hear ya. I bought it digitally and will get the alt-cover physically when my FLGS reopens, but I'm also not looking at the races and whatnot individually. I went to Sources and picked up the book and leafed through it. The Centaur and Triton and Minotaur sections are, in fact, Therosian within the context of the book. I feel bad for anyone who went ahead wanting to buy Centaur/Triton/Minotaur as partial purchases just to have the flavor text from Theros, only to find other worlds' flavor text there, instead. The worst of it seems to be Tritons, who were mechanically changed between Volo's Guide to Monsters and Mythic Odysseys of Theros: they now have Darkvision and no longer ignore all of the negative effects of deep underwater environments. D&D Beyond either needs to implement an alternate Triton race (like they have with Feral Tieflings, Orcs of Exandria, and Orcs of Eberron), or else they need to errata the Triton. Honestly, I would just do away with the variant Orcs race blocks and errata Orc and Triton with their updated features; Orc of Exandria and Orc of Eberron are identical in features if not in flavor text; it's a clear soft-errata on VGM. D&D Beyond tends to update VERY slowly. They said they'd get the book online by June 2nd, which they did. You can read through the book and use its text in your games. It's not nearly as useful if you just want to isolate the text of a specific race on its own of course. Supernatural Gifts have been a feature of D&D since the Dungeon Master's Guide, but this is a new class of Supernatural Gift that only emerged this year with Explorer's Guide to Wildemount's Hollow One and now with this book's Supernatural Gifts. From a quick search, the DMG Supernatural Gifts don't exist as a separate rule category in the "Game Rules" section. While Blessings replicate the properties of a Wondrous Item without an attunement slot, and Charms replicate the properties of a potion or spell (with a definite limit of usages), these example Supernatural Gifts ONLY show up within the context of Chapter 7 in the DMG on D&D Beyond, because there's not real way to model them without creating a full new category of game rules for misc bonus features (Supernatural Gifts: Blessings, Supernatural Gifts: Charms, Supernatural Gifts: Unnamed Theme-likes in Wildemount & Theros, Marks of Prestige, and Epic Boons). This is a weird catch all but they all are kinda like feats and kinda not like feats. I would love to see such a Game Rules feature, but it's something they'd have to actively add to the D&D Beyond pipeline, and they're extremely slow with any changes like that. I think it's a reasonable assumption to believe they'd have their doo-doo together and add such features, especially when they knew Supernatural Gifts were a big thing coming and saw a model of such in Wildemount. But I also have low expectations of D&D Beyond's SPEED of implementing features, while admiring it for what it does have (a very versatile compendium feature). If I buy all the books, I can search "Supernatural Gifts" and get links to D&D Beyond's inclusion of all the relevant possible SGs - in the DMG, in the EGW, and in the MOT. That's fine with me, but I see how it can be very frustrating for you, especially when folks are either paying double or treating this as their buy INSTEAD of a book. [/QUOTE]
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