{"id":17318,"date":"2021-02-03T01:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17318"},"modified":"2021-02-03T01:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:39:39","slug":"dungeon-delving-for-dummies-xanathars-guide-to-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/dungeon-delving-for-dummies-xanathars-guide-to-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Delving for Dummies: \u201cXanathar\u2019s Guide to Everything\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cXanathar\u2019s Guide to Everything\u201d is Wizard\u2019s of the Coast\u2019s most helpful sourcebook<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephanie Moschella<\/strong> |\u200c \u200cDigital Media Manager<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cXanathar\u2019s Guide to Everything\u201d serves as a compendium of everything extra and more. With beautiful artwork scattered throughout and hilarious riffs from the notorious gang leader Xanathar himself, this is an incredibly useful guide for dungeon masters. This sourcebook is split into three chapters: Character Options, Dungeon Master\u2019s Tools and Spells \u23e4 alongside extensions on character names and advice for DM\u2019s. Nevertheless, Xanathar and his pet fish, Sylgar, take readers on a wild ride through all the brand new content to play with.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If DM\u2019s have more role-playing than roll-playing players, the character option guide is a massive win. Combat-focused players might find this section a bit underwhelming, however, nobody cares about what they think. There are many revisited and revised class modifications such as the Samurai fighter and the Swashbuckler rogue, along with a completely new subclass, the Horizon Walker ranger. Another win for the four players out there that still play a ranger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A compelling addition are the racial feats at the end of chapter one \u23e4 which cover races such as tieflings and gnomes. There are various supplemental tables that DM\u2019s could use to expand a nonplayable character\u2019s background with a roll of a die or can act as a helping hand for new players.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This sourcebook covers those complicated questions that come up during games, like the rules around waking someone up, exhaustion, seeing someone cast and identifying the spell and what the hell adamantine weapons are. Knowing those little, but important, rules can make a game run smoother and improves the efficiency of the DM. It\u2019s great to know what to do when a player falls off a cliff.<\/span><\/p>\n

Half of the spells in the original 5th edition handbook sucked, so I always look forward to any new ones that come out. The major additions to the druid, sorcerer and wizard spell lists give a much wider variety for extensive combat play. From Xanathar himself, \u201cdanger is everywhere. Always keep one eye open.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall Review: <\/b>Although not everything is balanced, many things this sourcebook visited can help build an entire campaign. 8\/10 would recommend to players and DM\u2019s alike!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at smoschella20@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cXanathar\u2019s Guide to Everything\u201d is Wizard\u2019s of the Coast\u2019s most helpful sourcebook<\/p>\n

Stephanie Moschella |\u200c \u200cDigital Media Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[574,573,648,570,575,169,216,217,649],"class_list":["post-17318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-dd","tag-dnd","tag-dungeon-delving","tag-dungeon-delving-for-dummies","tag-dungeons-and-dragons","tag-opinion","tag-stephanie","tag-stephanie-moschella","tag-xanathars-guide-to-everything"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}