…the essentials kit included a pair of one-page flyers: one with free DnDbeyond codes for rest of the series following icespire peak and one with a DnDbeyond discount code for the player’s handbook…

…your campaign needn’t fizzle-out after cryovain!..dragon of icespire peak is only the first part of a four module series, followed by storm lord’s wrath, sleeping dragon’s wake, and divine contention on DnDbeyond…

…the essentials kit was published as a hook to draw parties onto the digital platform, but despite being a fantastic value as a physical boxed set, they did a poor job promoting the latter 3/4 of its adventure content, which were only published digitally…

…likewise, each character is different distillation of some aspect of my own personality; it’s kind of an integral part of the character creation process for me to figure out who they are and properly get into character…

…new sourcebooks coming next year, but fourth-edition maps kind of butchered the realms and third-edition maps compressed them into a fantasy theme park: i appreciate the proper scale of the fifth-edition map even if broader setting resources mostly entail tracking down older reference material…

…fifth edition does offer officially-sanctioned sourcebooks for the moonshaes, border kingdoms, thay, chult, and icewind dale in addition to the sword coast, though; you just have to delve into the DM’s guild for adept and adventurers’ league material…

…third-edition maps do alright in a pinch as long as you double the distances…

…cubicle 7’s uncharted journeys does exactly what you’re describing: it abstracts the exploration pillar into a series of encounter vignettes driven by characters assuming leader / outrider / quartermaster / sentry roles to engage the system mechanics…

…while it absolutely can be adapted to old-fashioned hex-crawl resource management, uncharted journeys is written to support exploration as a theatre-of-the-mind montage sequence, accounting for preparation + decision-making with tangible consequences upon reaching a journey’s end…

…it’s good stuff!..

…f*ck the OED; they don’t even speak proper american…

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…i’m sure someone has published a complete guidesheet between MCDM’s creature names and the D&D creatures they’re intended to replace, but that’s their tarrasque and it’s properly formidable…

…to be explicitly clear: i believe that we’re all sarcastically mocking WotC’s editorial choice to eliminate half-breeds from the core rules in order to combat real-world racism…

(i wouldn’t be surprised to see mixed races included as an advanced option in the new dungeon master’s guide, though)

…well, no: sixth-edition core rules no longer support half-races, something-something-against-racism?..

…i cast speak with animals and asked the horses their names: turns out they were darryl and his brother darrell…

…furthermore, several fifth-edition core mechanics presume open rolls in order to function…

…but not just anyone’s mom: specifically @Exec@pawb.social 's, she gets around…

…or thunderball, or lightningball, or acidball, or poisonball: do they teach you wizards nothing about improvisation?..

…last time i checked in on D+D adventures, the channel seemed to have been abandoned, endlessly repeating the same debut content months later: i felt like the only person watching a long-forgotten stream…

…is that not the case any longer, are they adding new content?..

…the SRD 5.1 corrected several oversights from the first-draft SRD 5.0 released four months earlier, but didn’t in any way reflect changes to the actual published game, which remained substantially unchanged until tasha’s cauldron of everything was published five years later, effectively revising several key classes, races, and other core design mechanics, setting the stage for other forthcoming proto-sixth edition revisions including spell-like abilities and deprecated alignment…

…calling the new SRD 5.2 is purely a marketing decision, as it will be an entirely new document rather than a revision to SRD 5.0/5.1…if any point in fifth edition’s ten-year history merits version update, it’s the revised game design WotC have been publishing since 2021…

…so i downloaded and read through the free player and gamemaster PDFs and while there are a few identifiably-recycled pieces of fifth-edition framework scattered throughout, the chassis appears so thoroughly torn apart and rebuilt that it’s not recognisably the same game at all to my eyes…

…yeah, it’s a retronym, but if the marketing campaign ends up branding the new edition 5.2, whither 5.1?..

…the art in eve of ruin is really, really sub-par for a professionally-produced WotC book: while there are several servicable-to-nice pieces scattered throughout, most of the art is overwhelmingly bush-league, the kind of thing i expect from DM’s guild material…

…nah, creative commons is sacrosanct and pretty well ironclad: i think WotC realised they’d do better following the embrace-extend-extinguish model to secure DnDbeyond’s supremacy as the de-facto industry marketplace and skim their cut from developers across the board…

…one could handily retcon post-tasha fifth edition as 5.1, since it started rolling out many of system revisions under development…