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Sometimes the mighty are watched and countered, but the ants can sneak in.

Yep it is weird and regional. My local FLGS can't keep the 2024 PHB in stock. It took me about 8 months after launch to get a hand on one!

My understanding is that 4e had great initial sales, partially because people were curious about the new weird thing, and partially...

But have you considered how reality and facts get in the way of advancing my agenda?

There's no reason to believe that under the hood an NPC mage doesn't work just like a regular old wizard PC class. But since that mage...

Literally none of that follows: clearly the NPC spellcastijg blocks are meant to be a shorthand for the same slota as PCs, bit...

These are clearly the spells prepared by the NPC. Again, it seems folks are really trying very hard to give themselves something to...

Even if NPCs didn't have spell slots (they do), any NPC or monster that casts a spell in my game will qualify for this. We don't have...

I really hope familiars don’t count. It should be something wonderful to encourage casters in the game world to co-operate to create...

Right! And this is how these work, so I think the word is appropriate. Call them Adventures and you have the confusion we are seeing in...

I am just the opposite - I find little vignettes like these much more useful than a traditional published adventure. If I buy a premade...

As much as I love fully fleshed out adventures, with motivated NPCs, stories, etc, a whole lot of interesting single-session encounters...

I believe the idea was a "module" could be dropped into an ongoing campaign, which was at least how I was playing in the 80s.

Survey design: I would make the time period a bit more prominant. I would have gone for "last 12 months" to be more meaningful too. And...

Yeah, I have no idea either. My best guess is that it takes (on average, it can wildly vary) about a month of real time to run the...