The Actual Table of Contents for Xanathar's Guide to Everything

A lot of good stuff there.

Of course, on the DM side, a lot of stuff is not there, but I like what I see.

Actually, one of the most useful things will be the appendix of sample names.

 

[Azzy]

Mostly I was referring to the format and the short description.

3e pretty much had the best spell list presentation of the editions. Could use a bit of tweaking, but was pretty good.

 

[Balfore]

I guess "Xanthar's Guide to Stuff You Could Have Just Googled" didn't test well with the focus groups.

Too funny!

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[DM Howard]

Going slightly off-topic here.

Do folks think there's a market for a fanzine in the light of the old Dragon mag? I thought there were other D&D things out there other than Dragon and Dungeon? (Gygax mag rings a bell.)

-KB.

I think there is. The problem with the Gygax Mag, IMO, is that you could only purchase it in paper format (Not sure on that though!) and the magazine was more of a general roleplaying magazine from what I could tell.

I'd pay good money (~$15 per issue) for a well put together D&D 5E magazine that not only has articles on adventures and player options, but also has other D&D interest articles such as "How to Start a Group" and "10 Ways to Get Your Store to Support D&D" etc. EN5ider is great, but it is just a collection of material rather than a fully curated magazine with all that entails.

 

[Satyrn]

Um, the spells are already listed by class in the PHB? You'd list the spells by school within the class lists. Reading comprehension and PHB knowledge. You fail at it.

Oh. Your first post on this subject made it sound like you were talking about the spell descriptions, not the spell lists. And I know I wasn't alone in thinking that because the first several responses you got were clearly about the spell descriptions, too.

Are you sure you want to stand behind your "reading comprehension" comment?

 

[Satyrn]

3e pretty much had the best spell list presentation of the editions. Could use a bit of tweaking, but was pretty good.

Aye. It surprised me they didn't use 3e's lists.

 

[Azzy]

I think there is. The problem with the Gygax Mag, IMO, is that you could only purchase it in paper format (Not sure on that though!) and the magazine was more of a general roleplaying magazine from what I could tell.

I'd pay good money (~$15 per issue) for a well put together D&D 5E magazine that not only has articles on adventures and player options, but also has other D&D interest articles such as "How to Start a Group" and "10 Ways to Get Your Store to Support D&D" etc. EN5ider is great, but it is just a collection of material rather than a fully curated magazine with all that entails.

If this were to be done, it would probably be best to do this through the DM's Guild so that it could use full access to the full rules (instead of just the SRD) and access to the Realms and Ravenloft. OTOH, you couldn't do anything with the other published settings...

 

[Parmandur]

I'm sorry, but that doesn't seem like sound view. Xanathar's is the major mechanical expansion—new subclasses, feats, spells, downtime expansion, and DM stuff. There's no way that this couldn't be it.

Yeah, they made that pretty clear: and it is the first major expansion of rules since the game started, both SCAG and Volo's had relatively little rules material, as they had other foci.

 

[DM Howard]

If this were to be done, it would probably be best to do this through the DM's Guild so that it could use full access to the full rules (instead of just the SRD) and access to the Realms and Ravenloft. OTOH, you couldn't do anything with the other published settings...

True, I don't think I would be too bothered by only being able to use the Realms or Ravenloft, I think you can provide content that can fit a multitude of settings. Is there anything that prevents someone from putting a "If you want to use this Adventure in [Insert Campaign Setting Here]" type of text box?

 

[Parmandur]

Going slightly off-topic here.

Do folks think there's a market for a fanzine in the light of the old Dragon mag? I thought there were other D&D things out there other than Dragon and Dungeon? (Gygax mag rings a bell.) edit - Gygax has been learned to be dead. Kobold Quarterly too. Damn.

-KB.

Magazines, as a rule, are dead.

 

[Parmandur]

Absolutely, they've pretty much just become a rentier, spending most of their efforts on social media marketing and licensing. I guess that makes business sense, but it's mostly cashing in on contrived scarcity.

If I recall right, Dragon was monthly and Dungeon was bimonthly. Some of the adventures in Dungeon were really, really good and material originally written for Dragon represented a useful testbed for content. Ideally DMs Guild would do this, but there's just way too much to wade through, IMO.

WotC has actually been working hard at spotlighting the best Dams Guild products in Dragon+ and social media, particularly the DMs Guild Adepts program.