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It doesn't matter. Every attempt to correct 5e ends up with people recreating 3e, 4e, or TSR-era D&D. A wildly different 6e will just...

Game Inertia. If you have played D&D for a long time, it may not be easy to simply stop playing it and move on to a different game...

All of the following base class features for the 5e Fighter (Fighting Style, Second Wind, Action Surge, Extra Attack, and Indomitable)...

What would also help is having mechanical class features that deal with exploration and social interaction and have them designed around...

Or just pare down the list players can choose from at level up (say, maybe a chooseable list of about 6 spells per spell level, this...

Armor is hella boring. They might as well just cut table to 3 armors. Light - 12+max dex, Med - 15+2dex, Heavy - 18 without dex. That's...

But this isn't about history, it's about corporate economics. Which is normally very risk-averse and prefers slow, predictable growth to...

I agree that WotC is largely disincentivized from pursuing a strategy of innovation over slow evolution. (More's the pity from my...

I had a literal 5 minutes to do some research and found an article from 2017 How Well is 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Selling?. D&D...

4e is a good game. I don't want to get into the pros and cons of 4e, or 5e for that matter, because I think it's besides the point. The...

I remember them saying that while the thought they were just releasing 5e to keep the IP alive, sales from day 1 greatly exceeded...

Core 5e2014 runs pretty fast, specially if you play with no feats. Part of why it runs so fast is lack of options. Usually, it's speed...

Negative levels from earlier editions are a dreadful mechanic. It can permanently nerf a character vs. their fellow party members...

In my experience, hit point bloat isn't really a problem - PCs grind through monster hit points much faster than you'd expect. In fact...

Negative levels were fussy to deal with, unfun for players, and messes with keeping players at the same level in an era where many...