Recent content by Hexmage-EN

I watched the interview and am glad that Richard Baker defended his work on 4E a bit, going so far as to say that in some ways he thinks its superior to 5E. It was also interesting hearing that the team working on 4E's Forgotten Realms thought they were making the equivalent to Star Trek: The...

I'm reminded of how one of the comments from last month's D&D Beyond article on this starter set accused it of being too much like 4E.

A single article for Warlocks during 4E introduced the idea of Pact Creeds, which are essentially the same as the code of conduct for Paladin subclasses in 5E. Implementing those might be a fun way to make a warlock's patron more relevant. Here are the ones from the article, which are all...

My biggest takeaway from the article is that it states the Feywild isn't getting focused on anytime soon.

IIRC the 4E Dark Sun book said that while Good and Lawful Good character's can't own slave, Unaligned characters could. In 2025 I don't think there should be any option condoned by the text to allow for slave ownership except by Evil characters, ideally only villainous NPCs. In a fantasy setting...

The discussion about changes to Dark Sun (and D&D settings in general) makes me glad that the media franchises I liked most as a 90's kid (Godzilla and Mega Man) very often came out with alternate takes. The Godzilla movie franchise alone has like 11 separate continuities, and the Mega Man...

Yeah, which also means they could fit in more unexplained retcons like the Purple Dragon Knights being associated with amethyst dragons. I'm honestly a bit surprised by how explicit that blog post was in saying that they're prioritizing the current fanbase of D&D in general over longtime...

That excerpt really doesn't give me much of an idea what to expect. Is it that there will be retcons with no in-setting explanation given at all?

I put A Little. If I was a Forgotten Realms fan in general I might be more excited, but what changed this set of products for me from a pass to a likely purchase is presenting several far-flung locations as mini-settings intended primarily for certain kinds of campaigns and the new player-facing...

I died in Honor Mode due to making a mistake when talking to Vlaa'kith, then continued on anyway and died in the final battle to a falling platform. I feel pretty good about trying again, whenever I decide to.

I really like this idea. It also ties into real world superstitions about certain objects being associated with evil forces.

The Tattooed Warrior Monk effectively has one good set of tats: Crane, Crescent Moon, Volcano, and Displacer Beast. Every other option is strictly inferior.

Now I kind of want to play an 8 foot tall Goliath Rogue with min-maxed Stealth.

I do know that over on the Critical Role subreddit there are people saying that if their Campaign 4 were to use Daggerheart instead of D&D that they would not be interested in following it. Campaign 3 also lost a good bit of viewers and momentum versus how well-received the first two were, so CR...

From what I've seen of Daggerheart it looks more dissimilar from D&D 5E than D&D 4E does, and we know how that went...