There’s stuff here for both the greenhorn DM and one who has been rolling dice behind a screen for 30 years. When is the awarding of a magic item appropriate? How often? How powerful?.How do you tailor random encounters to your party and adventure?.More than just providing more tables to roll on, the team behind Xanathar’s spends some time getting you to think about their uses: I can honestly say I’ve never read a section on rules and tools that I wanted to implement more quickly and eagerly than I found in this book.ĭowntime, tool proficiencies, traps, spell casting, magic items and more get some refinement and expansion. Xanathar’s Dungeon Master Tools section changed all that. The rules and tool section also brings some depth to your campaign. Most of the time when I read rules for a game, it feels like a bit of a necessary evil before the fun bits. I guarantee you’ll find one that excites you. And a College of Swords Bard seems awesome, too! Each of the Player’s Handbook (PHB) classes get sweet new options in Xanathar’s.
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I’ve never wanted to play a Cleric before, but the Forge Domain might actually have me anxiously awaiting the death of my next PC so I can give it a go.
D&D makes up some of that ground with Xanathar’s providing some excellent subclasses to play around with, all of which are AL (Adventurer’s League) legal. The subclasses add some much-needed variety to PCs. D&D 5e is woefully behind Paizo’s Pathfinder when it comes to race/class/subclass combos and sheer variety. Let’s get straight into the review of Xanathar’s Guide. A Review of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything In this tome, he details several new curious and powerful beings (subclasses), dozens of wondrous and unfamiliar magics (spells), and offers explanations for how the world works (rules and tools). The Beholder has done us a mighty favor by curating all kinds of knowledge into a single volume: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. Xanathar’s many eyes have seen (and disintegrated) many things during his lifetime, and it turns out that when the Beholder is not crime-lording, he’s journaling–or at least collecting all kinds of data from across D&D’s Forgotten Realms.