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I know, right? You get one Players Handbook and then right away a mere decade later they make another one! Microtransactions! That's how they getcha.

This is the only case of me preferring the standard cover to the alt.

Death and Danger await inside Toymaker Hall. Episode 8 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and EN Publishing, is now on YouTube:

Curse of Strahd (levels 3-9) fits rather neatly between Nest of the Eldritch Eye and Eve of Ruin, and has the virtue of including both Strahd and Mordenkainen.

That is conservatively one billion times better than the standard cover.

I agree. The main reason I don't like it is because it's kind of a mess artistically. Same with the PHB. These same three characters in a different style I'd be fine with.

I'm Gen X, and I'm a little taken aback by the heavy emphasis on the cartoon characters, as I really don't consider that cartoon to have much to do at all with the D&D game. It was a popular children's cartoon from 1983-85. It came and went. 95% of the characters in it never really appeared...

Deadly peril awaits the adventurers in Deephall Point’s forbidden shrine. Enjoy episode 11 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon. Available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: To Slay a Dragon Part 11: The Forbidden Shrine

Does anybody know if Passive checks are still a thing in the new books? Because in my experience they’re nice in theory but don’t really work at the table. I feel like they’re better suited to CRPGs than TTRPGs, at least as written.

The Mines of Moria sequence in Fellowship of the Ring was a huge inspiration for dungeon crawling in D&D. Gary's insistence that "only a minute" trace of Tolkein is in D&D is laughable on the face of it, and clearly one of many things he said along those lines not because they were true, but to...

I left D&D when I left for college in 1994, not because I didn't like it but simply because my priorities and commitments changed. If online play was more of a thing during my college years (mid-late 90s) then I might have kept playing to an extent, but I'm not sure. In my post-college years my...

Witchlight alt cover (above) and Candlekeep Mysteries alt cover: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71KAlMAypOL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg Also kinda like the Phandelver & Below alt cover: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vw4AAOSwl4Rk5NFn/s-l1200.jpg

I certainly like this one better, but I don’t love it. I enjoy the colors and the border designs, but the image is a little boring. It’s not a mess like the standard cover though. Will definitely be getting this one. Edit: my initial reaction was too negative. The more I look at this one, the...

All I remember is that he said the CR system “doesn’t work” and is not what they “use internally”.

I'm sure Crawford said they were gonna fix this?

Not only do I think Gen X players are a significant chunk of the player base, I think we actually get pandered to a LOT in the marketing and product choices - there is ALWAYS a nostalgia angle (80s cartoon characters in Witchlight, Icewind Dale because Drizzt, BG3 because BG 1 & 2, Acererak...

Radiant Citadel is this.

It’s included because it might make some people buy the book. The setting hasn’t been presented fully in more than a decade, and people are nostalgic for it. Nobody is going to NOT buy the new DMG because Greyhawk is in there, and it’ll get some extra curiousity/nostalgia buys. The second...

Also, while I don’t really like the halfling (sorcerer?) art, at least her head seems less grotesquely gigantic than the halflings in the 2014 PHB.