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    D&D (2024) DMG 5.5 - the return of bespoke magical items?

    Yes. Beyond what another poster has said, 17 years pass between Bilbo's party and Frodo leaving Bag End, they spend two months in Rivendell, and another month in Lorien. In fact, they do make a magic item during their Rivendell downtime, as Narsil is reforged into Anduril during that time in the...
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    Dungeons & Dragons May Not Come Back to Greyhawk After 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

    Examples? All I've seen are a few minor, reasonably sensible name changes, and reassigning a few characters' gender and species. Other than that, what has "shifted massively"?
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    D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

    And in 5e. From the 2024 DMG "Gods" section: "Impersonal forces and philosophies can also fill the role of gods in a campaign."
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    D&D (2024) DMG 5.5 - the return of bespoke magical items?

    "That dragon had a treasure of..." (Rolls dice) "155 +1 sling stones, 36 +2 sling stones, and 5 +3 sling stones. That dragon sure did like sling stones! Oh, and 11 electrum pieces."
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    D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

    One very interesting and important sentence in Chapter 5 ("Creating Campaigns"), in the "Session Zero - Character Creation" section: "When players are choosing their characters’ classes and origins, you can restrict options that are unsuitable for the campaign."
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    D&D (2024) Greyhawk Grognard covers the Greyhawk section of the DMG

    Some wizard there heard "make it rain" and totally misinterpreted or botched it.
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    D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

    I'm reading through the Bastions chapter, and it's interesting that, despite all the threads and posts here assuming that they are 100% player-only and completely hands-off by the DM, it doesn't specifically state that. Notably, in the "Fall of a Bastion" section, it lists three ways that a...
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    D&D (2024) Greyhawk Grognard covers the Greyhawk section of the DMG

    Not in the least, at least the "sad" part. I think you're confusing reservations with outright rejection. Most people seem at worst neutral, as far as I've seen.
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    D&D (2024) Greyhawk Grognard covers the Greyhawk section of the DMG

    That would make for an incredible climax to a campaign. Greyhawk City is just far away enough from the Nyr Dyv to give the perfect amount of time for both panic and heroics. Maybe she can wreck Dyvers along the way as a preview? (Or maybe she just goes north to attack Iuz, at which the...
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    D&D (2024) Greyhawk Grognard covers the Greyhawk section of the DMG

    I just chalked up the book's order of the Twin Cataclysms to it being ultimately unknowable, given how much time has passed and the massive destruction they caused. Sure, the surviving Baklunish among those who launched the Rain of Colorless Fire might have claimed afterwards that the Suel...
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    D&D General 2024 Monster Creation

    I guess I should be ready to cut and paste my post concerning how much internet ink was meaninglessly spilled concerning Custom Backgrounds not being in the PHB, just edited for monster creation instead, for when the MM comes out.
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    D&D (2024) WotC Invites You To Explore the World of Greyhawk

    It's a pain to run anything around the Forgotten Realms' Moonsea due to the city of Phlan there, when you live in Arizona and a lot of people immediately think "dessert!". Especially anything having to do with the old Gold Box CRPGs, which start and end there!
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    D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

    I've deep-skimmed (between a quick skim and full read) the first three chapters, and man, it's sooooo much better than the 2014 version, organized a lot better and filled with really useful info that will be invaluable for new DMs and often helpful for veterans. Also, they keep up the running...
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    D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

    It may just be that the FR books coming out next year will clarify this due to the difference. In the meantime, I would personally just go "Tenday = Week" as I do with so much else.
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    D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

    In the "Resolving Outcomes" section: "Another way to handle similar situations is to have one creature’s ability check set the DC for another creature’s check. That’s how hiding works, for example: a hiding creature’s total Dexterity (Stealth) check sets the DC for Wisdom (Perception) checks...
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