A wand of wonder was an unpredictable magical wand that produced a random effect each time it was used. Such as summoning a swarm of butterflies. #dnd#forgottenrealms#Realmslore
The party in my 2 year running #dnd campaign learned that the Baron they had been talking to since the start was actually a Doppelgänger, who's keeping the real Baron's body on ice in the cellar with the goal of reviving him and keeping this information from the enemy until they achieve it.
The party needs the same thing as the staff and Doppelgänger of the Baron to achieve their goals. They are now in a stand-off despite having similar goals.
one thing i wasn't happy with from the original announcement onward was the communication. they did a pretty good job hooking people in, but frequently their communications suggested they would be much more transparent then they actually were. there were a lot of promises of compatibility, balance fixes, confusing rule adjustments, etc, that were given in vague terms that suggested much more than we actually got.
compatibility: they frequently used terms like "fully compatible" with 5e. now obviously if they're making changes at all to anything except specific content, it can't be 100%. but personally my expectation would be that player options would be directly compatible. other parts of compatibility are generally less important because they are easy to adjust on the fly, but player options need balancing and are difficult to make well.
...well, they decided to replace races, how you get build up stats, and subclass levels.
mostly you can slot in 5e options directly, but differing subclass levels and feature interaction make porting subclasses feel very iffy if you don't have a strong grasp on editing mechanical rules safely. mostly, there isn't a simple nice set of instructions you can follow for using 5e options with a ToV based. you have to do a bit of leg work.
...but they really could have done a lot more. it really felt like most of the changes were much more horizontal than actual buffs. monk got a little extra juice at the earliest levels. ranger probably got the best of the changes. fighter was very horizontal. all three of them had changes which already broke any potential feature compat things, but they didn't get the buffs they really needed. step of the wind is still resource locked when very reasonably could be free...
Though I've been drifting away from #DND5e for a while now, it's still feels really weird to be completely uninterested in the latest releases. I mean, not even a twinge of FOMO.
@Tim_Eagon Yeah. Right now, I’ve only been interested if the #dnd product has a story premise which interests me. Journey Through the Radiant Citadel was the last which interested me. #ttrpg