Thac0 with Advantage 30. Catching up with the D&D Changes

Welcome to THAC0 . . . with Advantage! We’re two friends that have been playing D&D a long time. While we both love lots of other RPGs, D&D is the wraith that haunts all of our pretty, pretty dice.

What do we have here? 2024 D&D rules updates. Now it’s just Unearthed Arcana again and not One D&D. There’s EN Worlds Level Up: Advanced 5E that’s got a starter box coming. Interesting. We got Kobold Press and their Tales of the Vaillant, and there’s the Cubicle 7 D20 RPG. They’ve all been updating we finally got some time to catch up, check them out, and let you know what we think.

Fun Factoid

How tall are elves? Well, they average 5’4” and max out at 5’8” in the D&D Rules Cyclopedia. In AD&D 1st and 2nd edition, as well as 3rd edition they average 5’1” and max out at 5’5”. When it comes to the 2014 Players Handbook they’re all around 5’5” and reach the lofty point guard heights of 6’2”. But if you read your Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance books, they’re the same height or taller than humans, going all the way back to the Old Grey Boxed Set or the Dragonlance Novels. Basically, Gygax wanted us to know that D&D elves weren’t Tolkien elves, unless they were.