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No, you're wrong. Everyone who's referred to the Bookscan data has been upfront about the limitations of it. Everyone knows that FLGSs...

I hear that a lot, and while I don't entirely disagree with it, at some level it feels like a handwavey "don't believe your lying eyes"...

I meant the 2e splatbooks overall, not specifically the psionics ones. I never actually paid much attention to psionics until 3e.

I'll point out that there is evidence to the contrary, anecdotal though it might be: The Bookscan data (covering major book retailers...

The game is so grimdark that all of the characters croak.

I hate Critical Role as much as the next guy...but what does this even mean?

That's not the only data point that they're referring to. Many of them don't even mention that at all.

Maybe, but publishing it as compatible with 4e would kill the project too, so it needs changes anyway.

I like the idea of psionics. I once ran a campaign in the 3e era that replaced magic with psionics. All spells that had supernatural...

Yeah, companies try all the time to make stuff like that happen. It doesn't seem to take. 5.5, other than here, seems to be what most...

He can call it whatever he likes. For all intents and purposes it's 5.5 though.

I think its pretty clear there isnt one.

By this logic, 5e sold well because of all the youngsters on the design team? As a cold calculating businessman I could not disagree...

All kidding aside, D&D does suffer from a fundamental break in its corporate structure. At a video game studio, if you launch a great...