Devil's Advocate is one of those supplements that condenses a bunch of information that you PROBABLY could have figured out on your own, but you're so grateful that you don't need to. Justice did a wonderful job of laying out the mechanics you want to bring to these sorts of deals, as well as mixing in just enough advice for table ettiquete and how to deal with player expectations that even if you somehow read his mind and already knew the mechanics, you come away with something new and useful. And while he admits he's not, himself, a lawyer this product comes with just enough genre-fitting legalese to make you sound like you can play the part. A wonderful addition to your table if you plan on dealing with devils any time soon... even if the reference to Descent Into Avernus dates the writing a little bit! Highly recommended!

An interesting look at a system for determining your character's "race" that has a bit less of the colonialist assumptions that have been baked into Dungeons and Dragons over the years. The system of having major and minor inheritences gives you a bit of variety, so any two wood elves might not be exactly the same, for example. I think the product here is a great jumping off point, but if I have one complaint, it's that it's hindered too much by existing 5e canon. Because you can use this supplement to more or less rebuild the races as they exist in the Player's Handbook, the few extra features granted as options for each ancestry feel a little out of place in comparison to the "canonical" ones, for lack of a better term.

Still, it's a minor complaint, and one that's frankly inevitable when trying to thread the needle between reinventing a game's somewhat racist legacy and keep to the existing design of said game. Overall, Grazilaxx's is a great supplement, and definitely worth checking out for somebody looking to treat the varied peoples of their fantasy realm with a bit more care than standard D&D.

The pictures used in this product give fantastic visuals and flavor to the bardic college, and everything that follows delivers on the expectations that the images set up. The mechanics are tight and interesting, and I especially love the focus on teamwork and the way it says "this spell is yours, have some fun with it" by expanding just a little bit on Shatter. A great subclass, one you should check out if you're looking for a bard with a bit more flair.

This is a solid bard subclass, with a perfect mix of inventive and more down-to-earth features. Presentation is pretty, but not too busy for what is, after all, just a single bardic college. Definitely check it out.

I want to clarify now that my review here isn't hyperbolic, because my praise for this title is going to be incredibly high. This product is pretty down-to-business, so if you're looking for something full of flowery prose and flavor, look elsewhere. If you want what's probably one of the strongest expansions to the Monster Manual that's ever been published in terms of how much it's going to improve combat at your table, then buy this and don't look back. Adding these flavorful and balanced legendary actions to a monster or two in an encounter is going to make things just that much fuller and more dynamic. Honestly, this should have been part of the MM already. Cannot recommend highly enough.

Skillfully takes a concept (templates) that made on-the-fly adjustments to monsters and player characters quite simple in previous editions, and brings it into 5e. Every table is going to want to handle the events this product covers (vampirism, lycanthropy, etc.) differently, so getting a solution that works for everybody is never going to happen, but this is a pretty solid way of handling it that should work for most tables.