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Totally. The goal is fun. If the players do enjoy mapping, then that's what the table should do. And honestly I personally see where it could be fun as long as the DM is not, broadly, a jerk. I really do need to stress however, that I have played with ~1k players over the past 9 years. And I...

It is if the DM is going to be exacting about the accuracy of player's mapping skills. You asked what our experience was. I've DMed for ballpark a thousand players at this point. As a player, I've had maybe a dozen DMs, maybe 20. There is exactly one guy I've played with who enjoyed mapping as...

If I did, it wasn't because I failed to accurately draw a visual map based on someone's voice audibly describing my environment which for some reason I couldn't see. I don't mind if the DM conceals/removes areas from the map when the players have left those areas & can no longer see them. DM...

Have never seen a session wherein the players were required to map as they go that did not end in a frustrating fiasco. Also not sure what it really adds to the game, tbh. "Draw what I verbally describe" doesn't add any particular verisimilitude to the exploration.

Depends entirely on the tone and setting of the campaign. Fine for some campaigns, wrong for others. Expectations (and how much exactly this sort of thing matters) should be made clear at session zero. If your campaign is something like Spelljammer or Dungeon Crawler Carl, why shouldn't it...

In an actual play show running Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, running 4 hour recording sessions on average once per month, took almost exactly 3 years to get from level 1 to level 13 in 5E. I also played through Tomb of Annihilation, also multi-year campaign, rose from level 1 to 11 and my...

This and Dragon Delves are my favorite official D&D products of 2025 so far. I say that as very much a casual Stranger Things fan who only vaguely remembers what’s happened on the past 3 seasons of that show. Three out of the four adventures are well-done, fun, and easy to run, and the...

I liked: playable svirfneblin and duergar (later reprinted elsewhere, but for a while this was the only source) half-elf sub-types Swashbuckler Rogue & Sun Soul Monk & Bladesinger Wizard are good subclasses (later reprinted elsewhere, but again, for years these were only available here) The...

Xanathar's Guide to Everything has a selection of 20 "Racial Feats".

None of the anthology books have Tier 3 adventures. Candlekeep’s Level 16 one is the ceiling. Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage touts itself as going up to level 20. It actually covers levels 5-17, and then there’s one more dungeon level after that wherein the book kinda throws up its hands...

I think the Winter Walker ranger might have an issue with its ability to overcome Resistance to Cold, but not Immunity to Cold. The set of creatures that have Resistance but not Immunity to Cold is kinda limited, and this ranger might be out of luck trying to use that ability against a lot of...

I was a player in both Tomb of Annihilation and Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus and it was pretty clutch in both campaigns due to its ability to ameliorate hostile environmental conditions in both settings, allowing for safe long rests without deleterious effects (mosquito-born disease in...

Having read the Circle Casting section in full, I definitely have concerns about out-of-combat applications the designers may not have considered. Example: Aura of Vitality. With one secondary caster it can last one hour - which gives 1200d6 of healing out over that 160 minutes, or even 200d6...

There's a minor exploit they may have overlooked with the Spellfire Sorcerer being able to recharge Sorcery Points by Counterspelling low-level spells cast by friendlies willing to voluntarily fail saves.

Oh sorry. The Beyond part looks to be a ~2 page section with: About 1/2 a page on Chult with spotlights on Port Nyanzaru & Mezro 1/3 page on Evermeet 1/3 page on Lake of Steam with Akhapur spotlighted 1/3 page on Shaar with Lhesper and Shaarmid spotlighted 1/4 page on Sossal

Have to head out for a bit; will answer more later if others haven't already.

I legit don't know what this means.

Infernal tieflings are most common, but tieflings in general are rare. Talks about Asmodeus/Spellplague business but notes Asmodeus' gambit failed. In cities, tend to form communities & help each other Aglarond is a tiefling haven More common in Old Empires due to lots of divine activities...

Aurora's Whole Realms catalogue offers pricing on 12 magic items (11 of which are new, I believe). 10 are fun, minor magical items for 50gp or less, often items of clothing from particular regions that offer minor magical benefits. I like these. Priced at 4k gp is the windskiff, a necklace that...

At least in the Heroes book, I'm not seeing any references to firearms.