Recent content by DEFCON 1

It is impossible for any game to be able to accurately design rules to cover every single aspect one uses to avoid being hit with a weapon were one to engage in swordfighting. Your vision of the attacks, your physical agility to move out of the way, your moving speed, your wrist speed, your...

From my perspective, the issue in terms of "gameplay" is that Dungeons & Dragons actually combines two different games (in truth, actually probably three or four) into a single package-- there's the "tactical combat dice game" that grew and evolved directly out of its wargaming past that the D&D...

Bad argument, or are you just bubbling under because you know I am right and that most people just don't care as much as you do about saving random bits of RPG material till the ends of time?

Thank you for reinforcing my point. The only difference between your view here and my view above regarding the need for "permanent" records of all these random D&D materials that get made is that I am of the belief that you and I are not alone in our feelings here, but rather most other players...

I suspect the Internet will somehow survive getting suck into this black hole of the D&D Beyond website and program. :P

No... not right now. Once 6E gets released. At that point... a huge number of people are going to stop using most of (if not all) of their 5E stuff because they will switch over to 6E and be playing that. Just like most of the world's population are not going back to watch old movies from the...

A logical fallacy? What's the fallacy? That these DDB exclusives should be made available elsewhere because a few people might actually want keep all of their 5E24 material for the remainder of their lives (while not being able to just do the work themselves to subscribe/download/copy/rewrite...

Well, if academics want to archive and study a couple of random exclusive 5E24 features that got posted only to D&D Beyond, they can go through the effort of re-printing and cataloguing it. That's up to them. WotC's under no obligation to make it easier for them by making sure these exclusives...

You are correct, I was speaking for myself. But I also was guesstimating what the rest of the gaming populace would feel as well. I have no proof of my guesses, that's why they are just guesses... but I feel as though based on seeing how society has treating things in the past, I believe my...

Yep! There's no way to really know until eventually it happens (if it happens) so our opinions are merely just that. Our gut feelings on the matter and whatever reason and logic we are using to get there. And that's fine! We will just have to wait and see. :)

Uh... yeah? Why do you think I kept putting "in my opinion" and "personally speaking" in my posts? To make it clear that these are just my opinions. Do I think my opinions are also widely-held? Sure. Do I have "proof" of that? No. Just gut feeling and making educated guesses based upon...

I do not have your faith that there will still be a viable 5.5 audience once 6E gets announced/released... nor do I think WotC would "maintain" a 5.5 character builder and Maps functionality (mainly because I don't think they would be "sane" to use your parlance, LOL!) They might keep the 5.5...

Yeah, but how much of that stuff is actually going to be worth keeping? That's the thing... yes, there's a chance a lot of this stuff will "go away" as advances come and go. But don't we all expect that and have accepted it as a fait accompli? Especially considering who knows if any of that...

I'm sure they would. But that would take time to make their own product lines for 6E and get them accepted and loaded up on DDB. All the while all their previous products lay fallow because no one will buy new 5E material for not only the 2 years or so that 6E has been announced and is in...

That'll certainly be where the rubber meets the road. We've got probably at least 2 years of current 5E24-only action on WotC's part because they just did a full reset of their D&D staff and design department and will need a bit of time acclimating to the production culture (and wrap up the...