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"Personally I've never felt voting was all that important to the process." "No kidding, Ford." -Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, Futurama.

The problem is that many YTers use clickbait headlines for the algorithm even when their content is nothing like that. it makes it very...

My preference would be a compatible but stand alone game, so I can more easily pilfer it for my homebrew. I suppose the ship has sailed...

2025 and some people are still like "People watch other people play D&D?!?!?"

Like @newsnerd said: folks on YouTube are always looking for ways to bait viewers into engaging with their videos...and manufactured...

Great, another swath of doomsday YouTube reaction videos incoming in 5...4...3...

For me, I rated it a 3, because I already have 5E. With the exception of some cleanups of classes, I don't really see anything that...

For what it’s worth I rated 2024e as a 6. Id have rated 2014e as a 7.

In a vacuum I might give it a 7 or an 8. I love Fifth Edition Classic, and New 5e is just a version of it which set out to be a little...

I think rolling the hit die and subtracting it from an enemy saving throw that just succeeded would be the most fun, and about the only...

Zweihaender is excellent for this. I feel nefarious characters with palmed stilettoes all around me when I read the book.

The Bible Belt states are also concerned about S-A-T-A-N, and many believe RPGs are one of his tools. Don’t be surprised if someone...

NPC stat blocks are definitely a place where New 5e doubled down on tendencies I disliked in Fifth Edition Classic. It's not exactly a...

5e already leaned into a distinction between PC stat blocks and NPCs. The 2024 revision has deepened this divide; whereas giving...

I don’t see why mind control should be implicitly evil when chopping heads of with a sword is tied to context dependent morality. I...