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Necessity? Depends on your needs. There are very good, even necessary reasons, for some folks within the US to learn a second language...

Not quite. Certainly, the shift from the white box to AD&D, then 2E to 3E, then to 4E, then to 5E created almost entirely different...

Yeah. A lot of digital ink spilled over small stuff.

I think they’ve done a demonstrably good job of keeping the player base generally happy and growing. People who kvetch on forums aren’t...

The new remake of Deathstalker just got a 5e release to coincide with the Blu-ray release. Deathstalker D&D5e Compendium

That's true, I expect. But if they get DDB working "properly", it would probably not be terribly difficult to make a similar, even...

You're right, of course. But I could see a time when WotC realizes that they can (probably) make money off of selling us (anyone who is...

I would love for them to just headline 5e even if its 2024 but release all their other editions onto D&D Beyond. I know that won't...

Well, with that resume, I'm certainly not hiring Dancey for my RPG start-up! But I'm not going to hold all of that against him as a...

I respect your own recall of events, but . . . I'm taking all of that with a grain of salt without more solid links. Not that you need...

No, they don't. Simply put - you don't go looking for cancer in medical imaging, or paths over Martian terrain with a LANGUAGE model...

Selling more products is not generally considered an evil goal, and that is really all Ryan was saying. I doubt you would consider it...

I disagree. If you agree that, as Ryan said, the problem with the proliferation of systems was the resulting industry wide low sales...

What were Dancey's shenanigans during the TSR acquisition? How did Dancey crash and burn with D&D 3.5? What happened with Eve Online and...

The costs and issues people are concerned about isn't in the code, it is in the training.