Recent content by lkj

I remember Mearls making the point that one of Greyhawk's best features was providing enough tantalizing lore to catch your attention but leaving the vast majority of details to the individual DM. I suspect they are using it in that light. A concrete way to give new DMs a taste of how to build...

I seem to recall, quite a long time ago, folks at DDB (before WotC bought them I think) saying that only a very small portion of their customer base used the ala carte options, and that this surprised them. I've been expecting DDB to stop offering ala carte options for a long time, as I suspect...

This gave me a chuckle: AD

I actually did this to get a spell effect. I created a prismatic sphere monster so that I could have a token to use for the spell. Overall the whole thing is really easy to use. I was running entirely theater of the mind games because I was tired of the prep from platforms like Roll20 (not...

I am also still getting a video Pop-Up ad every time I load a new page. Chrome on Android

Yeah, it's super easy to set the grid scale, but laying an actual grid based on that scale would be good. I suspect that will show up as a feature before too long. It is basic but it's so straightforward I've been using it in most of my sessions even though I'm generally a theater of the mind...

This is essentially what maps on DDB does. It's super easy.

Almost all of my 5e games have gone to high levels. It has been fun and easy to run. I'm running two high level games right now. Apparently I'm an oddball. AD

With regard to the 'slipcase'

There was a new update today unless I'm confused.

I keep waiting for your thread reporting this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/community-update?utm_campaign=DDB&utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_content=9238281629

While I would be ok with them just providing a limited number of animal statblocks, I would prefer if they went with a small set of generic statblocks that could be customized with additional abilities (modeled on abilities that beasts have) while still explicitly allowing druids to decide what...

As noted above, that was the problem. Given the other changes, the new rules would create an absurd use case where you basically have the rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They didn't want that. But I agree that they need to just add a change that makes the tiny form less robust and...

I believe, based on the clip, that they are called the red shirts

There's an accompanying video on the d&d youtube channel. They went with statblocks as that's how they anticipate them getting used (people have their own characters). But they started with the character sheets that were developed for the movies. So such character sheets exist! (Though it sounds...