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The upcoming Starfleet Academy show is set in that far future, your wish is granted!

It's interesting to hear about the ebb and flow of managerial styles from the TSR days, and I can't help but compare them to the ebb and flow at WotC today, as they return to a franchise model for D&D. It seems the wheel turns and what once was will be again . . . both good and bad! I do feel...

There seems to be a misunderstanding with some folks . . . This new starter set is just that, a starter set. Not a new edition of the game, not D&D translated into a card game, not D&D trying to integrate Magic the Gathering style of mechanics or collectible cards like the "Fortune Cards" in 4E...

I kinda want to hear that story! :)

He should call it "Justin Don'ts" then . . .

Huh? Why would WotC NOT pursue video games based on D&D? Especially since Baldur's Gate 3 was so very recently incredibly successful? There have been two D&D MMOs so far, "D&D Online" and "Neverwinter" . . . both successful enough they are still running today. But they are both older games...

No, not really. I mean, sure, WotC could release an "Honor Among Thieves" book next year or so . . . but that would be a terrible business decision. The time for a tie-in was when the movie was released in theatres.

Huh. It's definitely a trend on the rise, beyond DaggerHeart, I think. I've been moving more towards this style as a DM over the past few years, in bits and pieces . . . and most of my players don't seem on board! They don't get angry or anything, just confused when I try to give them a...

Satine is a strange and toxic personality, to be sure. But we've already gone off the rails in this thread criticizing her for things she has not done . . . and with plenty of things she actually has done to talk about! Her quotes from the charm-and-AI video are certainly odd, but have...

As a middle-school teacher . . . it's the same thing, arrgghhh! If I ask you to stop doing something you shouldn't be doing . . . and you stop doing it . . . WE'RE GOOD! Get all defensive and try to fight me on it . . . off to the principal's office with you! I suppose some folks truly do...

That's a close reading of the 2024 warlock, too close IMO. And far from making the warlock a "non-entity". The DM is "not allowed"? That concept does not exist in D&D of any edition. The 2024 warlock design is imperfect IMO also, for the reasons you mention. But it's hardly game-breaking. I'm...

I would assume not much at all . . . other than the price for the digital versions of the new, larger adventure paths would also be higher. I don't think Paizo has released pricing on digital-only versions yet. If you subscribe to the physical releases through Paizo's store, you will still get...

It's still less expensive for the adventure path. You certainly do lose the ability to purchase one "chapter" instead of the entire thing, sure . . . but how many folks were doing that? Only Paizo knows, but I suspect it's a small minority. This new format is certainly a change that will...

For you it doesn't cost less? That's not how money works . . . I mean, if you have a budgeting and impulse control problem . . . I'm entirely sympathetic, me too. But the quarterly hardcover adventure paths DO cost less than the monthly softcovers. It's math, man!

Well, we are talking the Adventure Paths, not stand-alone modules. You could, of course, just go with #4 out of a 6-part series . . . but I doubt many Pathfinder fans were doing that. Plus, these were mostly sold by subscription, although they were available in FLGS brick-and-mortars.