No new beasts, just Volos and Mordenkainens, as far as we know. Heavily altered.
*Cries in Druidic*
Ah well.
Are they re releasing the monster manual then on its own?
No. Not yet, at least.
I would venture a guess that the MM will be re-released along with the PHB and DMG in 2024
Edit: Probably with a new 50th anniversary collector's set too
They are currently raking it in with the most popular edition the game has ever had. If they decide to upset the apple cart, and “coincidentally” time it for the anniversary, and it wasn’t to specifically do that then they must be succeeding in spite of themselves.
There's a tiny bit of buzz on the CR reddit that the next book might be a Tal'dorei adventure anthology. The noise is coming from weird sources and using information validated my Kate Welch from 2019, so decades ago by now, and I don't trust it one bit, but if this is true this might be exciting! Don't worry non-CR fans, you still get 5 other releases or so next year if this comes to be, which it likely wont. What do the experts (Third, Spotsa, Nyr, Erriku, etc.) think on this disputable bit of news, as well as the new D&D Digital front WotC is starting?
I wouldn't let any ability scores exceed 20 without magic, period.
Do you refuse to allow someone to play barbarians in high level campaigns?
I can't answer one way or another since I haven't DMed high level campaigns in 5E yet. The group I'm DMing right now just reached 8th level.
ETA: Ah, I see you're referencing the Primal Champion feature of the Barbarian. Of course I'd allow that: it's right there as allowed! As the PHB itself says, the specific overrules the general. And in this case, not only is it a canon feature, it's a class-specific one...and the Barbarian also doesn't get any more ASIs.
But I was speaking more generally of the ceiling of 20 (excluding magical augmentation) comes straight from the PHB:
Adventurers can have scores as high as 20, and monsters and divine beings can have scores as high as 30.
I thought there was another place where this made even more explicit (that 20 is the limit for "natural" ability scores for characters) but I can't find it at the moment.
I wouldn't let any ability scores exceed 20 without magic, period.
Do you refuse to allow someone to play barbarians in high level campaigns?
I can't answer one way or another since I haven't DMed high level campaigns in 5E yet. The group I'm DMing right now just reached 8th level.
ETA: Ah, I see you're referencing the Primal Champion feature of the Barbarian. Of course I'd allow that: it's right there as allowed! As the PHB itself says, the specific overrules the general. And in this case, not only is it a canon feature, it's a class-specific one...and the Barbarian also doesn't get any more ASIs.
But I was speaking more generally of the ceiling of 20 (excluding magical augmentation) comes straight from the PHB:
Adventurers can have scores as high as 20, and monsters and divine beings can have scores as high as 30.
I thought there was another place where this made even more explicit (that 20 is the limit for "natural" ability scores for characters) but I can't find it at the moment.
It does says that adventures can only reach 20 normally; pretty much every time it offers an ASI, I believe.
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Looking at this, if this is the direction they go in with races, then I'm perfectly fine with it. The new gnome race in here is still defined as small, the elf race is still defined as medium. The age thing says that tend to live about human lifespans but that race descriptions will mention outliers, and lo and behold the astral elf does mention its own life span. Flexible ASIs are there, choosing one stat to boost by 2 and one stat to boost by 1. But distinct racial features are still in tact.
So ultimately, I'm no longer wary of those changes to age/size and this seems A-okay to me.
Looking at this, if this is the direction they go in with races, then I'm perfectly fine with it. The new gnome race in here is still defined as small, the elf race is still defined as medium. The age thing says that tend to live about human lifespans but that race descriptions will mention outliers, and lo and behold the astral elf does mention its own life span. Flexible ASIs are there, choosing one stat to boost by 2 and one stat to boost by 1. But distinct racial features are still in tact.
So ultimately, I'm no longer wary of those changes to age/size and this seems A-okay to me.
It also matches the Boo and Beholder Book Cover by Hydro74 that we saw:
It definitely looks like we're getting Spelljammer sometime soon.
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Looking at this, if this is the direction they go in with races, then I'm perfectly fine with it. The new gnome race in here is still defined as small, the elf race is still defined as medium. The age thing says that tend to live about human lifespans but that race descriptions will mention outliers, and lo and behold the astral elf does mention its own life span. Flexible ASIs are there, choosing one stat to boost by 2 and one stat to boost by 1. But distinct racial features are still in tact.
So ultimately, I'm no longer wary of those changes to age/size and this seems A-okay to me.
It also matches the Boo and Beholder Book Cover by Hydro74 that we saw:
It definitely looks like we're getting Spelljammer sometime soon.
That would be my guess, since the last several sets of UA have all been playtest for upcoming books, I don't see why this would be any different. And I don't know what else 'multivers explorer races' would be fitting for off the top of my head.
I hate the fact that Boo has been divorced from Minsc. Now that just stinks. Almost as badly as this Spelljammer nonsense. Bah, humbug! I will be grumpy for a moment, and then reserved forevermore. And I was so hoping for the Traveler's Guide to Marquet too, I saw so many links and ideas.......
EDIT: For a list of the TGtM conspiracy theory ideas, please ask me!
I hate the fact that Boo has been divorced from Minsc.
. . . Why would Boo be divorced from Minsc? They literally just had their own DMsGuild product together (Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy). Just because they're not together in the Alternate Cover Art of one upcoming D&D book does not mean that only Boo will appear in the book.
(They've had quite a few cameos together in 5e already, too. The statue of them appeared in Descent into Avernus, and they both appeared in the art of the Yawning Portal that was in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. 5e has already decided that they're inseparable, they're not being separated anytime soon.)
Now that just stinks. Almost as badly as this Spelljammer nonsense. Bah, humbug! I will be grumpy for a moment, and then reserved forevermore.
Spelljammer is awesome, and I will fight you on that! Spelljammer is the only setting in all of D&D that knows that D&D is ridiculous and embraces it as much as it possibly can! British Space Hippos that love gunpowder and can't decide how to pronounce their name (Giff or Jiff), Mercantile Penguinfolk that ride literal Flying Pigs into battle, Mind-Controlling Eel-Spiders that fly inside of giant spider-ships and cannibalize their grandparents in order to reproduce, and Monkey-People with Flying Squirrel-like membranes that connect their limbs together.
That's all ridiculous and amazing. It is the purest D&D setting ever.
And I was so hoping for the Traveler's Guide to Marquet too, I saw so many links and ideas.......
Explorer's Guide to Wildemount didn't come out until over 2 years after Season 2 of Critical Role started. I think a Marquet setting book for 5e is fairly likely, but I think that it's not going to come out until at least a year after Season 3 of Critical Role starts.
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I hate the fact that Boo has been divorced from Minsc.
. . . Why would Boo be divorced from Minsc? They literally just had their own DMsGuild product together (Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy). Just because they're not together in the Alternate Cover Art of one upcoming D&D book does not mean that only Boo will appear in the book.
(They've had quite a few cameos together in 5e already, too. The statue of them appeared in Descent into Avernus, and they both appeared in the art of the Yawning Portal that was in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. 5e has already decided that they're inseparable, they're not being separated anytime soon.)
Now that just stinks. Almost as badly as this Spelljammer nonsense. Bah, humbug! I will be grumpy for a moment, and then reserved forevermore.
Spelljammer is awesome, and I will fight you on that! Spelljammer is the only setting in all of D&D that knows that D&D is ridiculous and embraces it as much as it possibly can! British Space Hippos that love gunpowder and can't decide how to pronounce their name (Giff or Jiff), Mercantile Penguinfolk that ride literal Flying Pigs into battle, Mind-Controlling Eel-Spiders that fly inside of giant spider-ships and cannibalize their grandparents in order to reproduce, and Monkey-People with Flying Squirrel-like membranes that connect their limbs together.
That's all ridiculous and amazing. It is the purest D&D setting ever.
And I was so hoping for the Traveler's Guide to Marquet too, I saw so many links and ideas.......
Explorer's Guide to Wildemount didn't come out until over 2 years after Season 2 of Critical Role started. I think a Marquet setting book for 5e is fairly likely, but I think that it's not going to come out until at least a year after Season 3 of Critical Role starts.
Matt Mercer is not going to spoil all his plans for Marquet with a campaign guide in week one of the new campaign, that and much of the details will come about as he fashions the first part of the campaign, NPCs will be created on the spot that have to make it in, actions will take place that make him rethink other aspects of his world. As he has said the moment he writes it down it becomes cannon and therefore much harder for him to tweak it on the fly and this is as it should be I mean it is how I DM while ideas are bullet points or thoughts in my head they are subject to change, it is only once they are committed into the DM journal they become fact.
Looking at this, if this is the direction they go in with races, then I'm perfectly fine with it. The new gnome race in here is still defined as small, the elf race is still defined as medium. The age thing says that tend to live about human lifespans but that race descriptions will mention outliers, and lo and behold the astral elf does mention its own life span. Flexible ASIs are there, choosing one stat to boost by 2 and one stat to boost by 1. But distinct racial features are still in tact.
So ultimately, I'm no longer wary of those changes to age/size and this seems A-okay to me.
And this will all be open to change and adjustment based on play testing and feedback, how often does UA material get published entirely unaltered once it is signed off? I can’t think of many instances where at least minor tweaks have not taken place.
I hate the fact that Boo has been divorced from Minsc.
. . . Why would Boo be divorced from Minsc? They literally just had their own DMsGuild product together (Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy). Just because they're not together in the Alternate Cover Art of one upcoming D&D book does not mean that only Boo will appear in the book.
(They've had quite a few cameos together in 5e already, too. The statue of them appeared in Descent into Avernus, and they both appeared in the art of the Yawning Portal that was in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. 5e has already decided that they're inseparable, they're not being separated anytime soon.)
Now that just stinks. Almost as badly as this Spelljammer nonsense. Bah, humbug! I will be grumpy for a moment, and then reserved forevermore.
Spelljammer is awesome, and I will fight you on that! Spelljammer is the only setting in all of D&D that knows that D&D is ridiculous and embraces it as much as it possibly can! British Space Hippos that love gunpowder and can't decide how to pronounce their name (Giff or Jiff), Mercantile Penguinfolk that ride literal Flying Pigs into battle, Mind-Controlling Eel-Spiders that fly inside of giant spider-ships and cannibalize their grandparents in order to reproduce, and Monkey-People with Flying Squirrel-like membranes that connect their limbs together.
That's all ridiculous and amazing. It is the purest D&D setting ever.
And I was so hoping for the Traveler's Guide to Marquet too, I saw so many links and ideas.......
Explorer's Guide to Wildemount didn't come out until over 2 years after Season 2 of Critical Role started. I think a Marquet setting book for 5e is fairly likely, but I think that it's not going to come out until at least a year after Season 3 of Critical Role starts.
Matt Mercer is not going to spoil all his plans for Marquet with a campaign guide in week one of the new campaign, that and much of the details will come about as he fashions the first part of the campaign, NPCs will be created on the spot that have to make it in, actions will take place that make him rethink other aspects of his world. As he has said the moment he writes it down it becomes cannon and therefore much harder for him to tweak it on the fly and this is as it should be I mean it is how I DM while ideas are bullet points or thoughts in my head they are subject to change, it is only once they are committed into the DM journal they become fact.
I know, but I'm a loser that thinks Marquet as a setting would be cool.
Whether or not Wizards does Marquet, CR will. They're doing Tal'Dorei Reborn, after all, and I imagine they started getting these publishing capabilities and such together in-house specifically to do books like this. But yeah. I don't see another CR book any time soon, as cool as an Exandrian Anthology or the like might be. The Faerun grognaks still haven't forgiven us for the last CR book, even if the Wildemount book is objectively one of the best, most coherent and well-written setting books they've released in this edition.
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I would venture a guess that the MM will be re-released along with the PHB and DMG in 2024
Edit: Probably with a new 50th anniversary collector's set too
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There's a tiny bit of buzz on the CR reddit that the next book might be a Tal'dorei adventure anthology. The noise is coming from weird sources and using information validated my Kate Welch from 2019, so decades ago by now, and I don't trust it one bit, but if this is true this might be exciting! Don't worry non-CR fans, you still get 5 other releases or so next year if this comes to be, which it likely wont. What do the experts (Third, Spotsa, Nyr, Erriku, etc.) think on this disputable bit of news, as well as the new D&D Digital front WotC is starting?
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I can't answer one way or another since I haven't DMed high level campaigns in 5E yet. The group I'm DMing right now just reached 8th level.
ETA: Ah, I see you're referencing the Primal Champion feature of the Barbarian. Of course I'd allow that: it's right there as allowed! As the PHB itself says, the specific overrules the general. And in this case, not only is it a canon feature, it's a class-specific one...and the Barbarian also doesn't get any more ASIs.
But I was speaking more generally of the ceiling of 20 (excluding magical augmentation) comes straight from the PHB:
I thought there was another place where this made even more explicit (that 20 is the limit for "natural" ability scores for characters) but I can't find it at the moment.
It does says that adventures can only reach 20 normally; pretty much every time it offers an ASI, I believe.
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Ah, yes. For each class, it has this tag for the ASI description:
Seems like there's a new UA out someone in discord sent me. https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/travelers-multiverse
Looking at this, if this is the direction they go in with races, then I'm perfectly fine with it. The new gnome race in here is still defined as small, the elf race is still defined as medium. The age thing says that tend to live about human lifespans but that race descriptions will mention outliers, and lo and behold the astral elf does mention its own life span. Flexible ASIs are there, choosing one stat to boost by 2 and one stat to boost by 1. But distinct racial features are still in tact.
So ultimately, I'm no longer wary of those changes to age/size and this seems A-okay to me.
This actually looks pretty good to me. It looks like, unsurprisingly, we should have waited to see the changes before we got up in arms.
It also matches the Boo and Beholder Book Cover by Hydro74 that we saw:
It definitely looks like we're getting Spelljammer sometime soon.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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That would be my guess, since the last several sets of UA have all been playtest for upcoming books, I don't see why this would be any different. And I don't know what else 'multivers explorer races' would be fitting for off the top of my head.
I hate the fact that Boo has been divorced from Minsc. Now that just stinks. Almost as badly as this Spelljammer nonsense. Bah, humbug! I will be grumpy for a moment, and then reserved forevermore. And I was so hoping for the Traveler's Guide to Marquet too, I saw so many links and ideas.......
EDIT: For a list of the TGtM conspiracy theory ideas, please ask me!
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. . . Why would Boo be divorced from Minsc? They literally just had their own DMsGuild product together (Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy). Just because they're not together in the Alternate Cover Art of one upcoming D&D book does not mean that only Boo will appear in the book.
(They've had quite a few cameos together in 5e already, too. The statue of them appeared in Descent into Avernus, and they both appeared in the art of the Yawning Portal that was in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. 5e has already decided that they're inseparable, they're not being separated anytime soon.)
Spelljammer is awesome, and I will fight you on that! Spelljammer is the only setting in all of D&D that knows that D&D is ridiculous and embraces it as much as it possibly can! British Space Hippos that love gunpowder and can't decide how to pronounce their name (Giff or Jiff), Mercantile Penguinfolk that ride literal Flying Pigs into battle, Mind-Controlling Eel-Spiders that fly inside of giant spider-ships and cannibalize their grandparents in order to reproduce, and Monkey-People with Flying Squirrel-like membranes that connect their limbs together.
That's all ridiculous and amazing. It is the purest D&D setting ever.
Explorer's Guide to Wildemount didn't come out until over 2 years after Season 2 of Critical Role started. I think a Marquet setting book for 5e is fairly likely, but I think that it's not going to come out until at least a year after Season 3 of Critical Role starts.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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As I said, I had lots of threads of "evidence". I'm done grumping. I'm on the "Inconsolable Grief" faze.
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You mean "phase", not "faze".
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No I'm seriously turning into a cloud of sad mist.
Also, you said you would fight me? SHAMELESS PLUG for Competition of the Finest Brews IV, where we can battle in the duel of the homebrew fates
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There's a new one? Okay, I'll have to check that out.
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Matt Mercer is not going to spoil all his plans for Marquet with a campaign guide in week one of the new campaign, that and much of the details will come about as he fashions the first part of the campaign, NPCs will be created on the spot that have to make it in, actions will take place that make him rethink other aspects of his world. As he has said the moment he writes it down it becomes cannon and therefore much harder for him to tweak it on the fly and this is as it should be I mean it is how I DM while ideas are bullet points or thoughts in my head they are subject to change, it is only once they are committed into the DM journal they become fact.
And this will all be open to change and adjustment based on play testing and feedback, how often does UA material get published entirely unaltered once it is signed off? I can’t think of many instances where at least minor tweaks have not taken place.
I know, but I'm a loser that thinks Marquet as a setting would be cool.
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Whether or not Wizards does Marquet, CR will. They're doing Tal'Dorei Reborn, after all, and I imagine they started getting these publishing capabilities and such together in-house specifically to do books like this. But yeah. I don't see another CR book any time soon, as cool as an Exandrian Anthology or the like might be. The Faerun grognaks still haven't forgiven us for the last CR book, even if the Wildemount book is objectively one of the best, most coherent and well-written setting books they've released in this edition.
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