Recent content by DEFCON 1

The public play tests only check for audience approval. They have little to do with balancing. That's all their internal team and their alpha testers. And quite frankly I wouldn't trust the general public for balance testing anyway, since the tens of thousands of testers would all have...

I never feel any of the setting books are starved for resources, because I have all the previous editions' material for those settings to add to it as one giant smorgasbord of setting material. Why anyone who knows the full extent of Planescape because they played Planescape in the past would...

Your other option is to create an adventure path by cobbling together a bunch of drow-themed material into a longer series. Some of the things not yet said here and which come from the 4E era include: Menzoberranzan - City of Intrigue setting book that gives you a drow city location to run out...

Sorry... you said 'three campaigns in a row', which I thought meant you had three straight campaigns with 4 out of 5 members being full casters. That's what I meant by "every group", thinking you had three groups for three campaigns. If you actually meant one group but you went through 3...

What you are saying is the exact opposite of everything that has ever been said about WotC and 3rd Party companies. One of the entire points of opening up D&D was so that 3PPs could make material that was for the niches of the player base that WotC wasn't making stuff for because there wasn't a...

I would not agree with your suggestion. People not playing high-level does not automatically mean that high-level is unfun. There are countless other reasons why people would choose not to play high-level games. Some of course might not find them fun... but its just as easily to believe its...

My apologies for not taking your numerical suppositions as actual substantiated fact. But besides, my point stands... if there was money to be made with high-level adventures, more companies would be selling them. Regardless of the size of the company. And not to mention... if these...

Are you talking to me, or was this a transitive property of conversation where you were actually talking to the person I was talking to as well, but through a Reply to my post? Your post makes it sound like you were talking to me, even though I wasn't talking about myself.

The charity would be if there's not enough people who actually want high-level stuff (which of course we already know because WotC has told us that) to make the writing and publication of said material actually worth their time. Time they otherwise would spend designing other things that would...

Why? So that you can tell your DM you are using it no ifs-ands-or-buts and they have no choice in the matter? Why does it matter which book the rule is in? Aren't you all going to be working together to decide which variant rules you're going to use anyway?

And if anyone wants this more complex system of downgraded control effects depending on the number and size of the targets... then one can just make up a system themselves. And then sell it on the DMs Guild if they think other players might want it too. But they don't need to sit on their...

Does where its found really matter though? If it's in the Player's Handbook the players are going to think they get to make the choice to use it with or without the DM's say... and if its in the DMG then the DM thinks they get to decide whether or not it can get used at all. But in both cases...

If you keep running games where every group goes full caster heavy and uses their spells for everything... my guess is that your particular style of DMing makes those choices make the most sense. The players are taking what you are giving them. Now if you are generally cool with all of that...

Anyone could easily make high level adventures, but none of these people or companies are charities. It doesn't matter how big or small they are. Just because a few people might want something doesn't mean anyone else needs to spend their money to give it to them out of the kindness of the...

This right here I think is the real issue. You've hit the nail on the head. High-level campaigns have 12 to 17 levels of previous campaign material and stories that have occurred over the course of however many months / years the game has been running that an adventure needs to insert itself...