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Splitting information about specific NPCs and their role in the story, and where they might be encountered is an issue with many WotC... -
Those structural problems are often the result of choices made to cater content to readers. Taking your CoS example, there is an NPC...
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"Modular" design also leads to structural flaws, especially when it comes to sandboxy content. CoS is a good example of "what chapter is...
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FitzTheRuke reacted to billd91's post in the thread Sunday Chat: What New Editions Were Upgrades? Which Ones Were Downgrades? with
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I think it would be hard for me to think of an edition change that was a downgrade across the board. There may be aspects that were a... -
FitzTheRuke replied to the thread Sunday Chat: What New Editions Were Upgrades? Which Ones Were Downgrades?.I consider all revisions of D&D to be upgrades, though never without areas that were changed that should not have been touched, and...
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FitzTheRuke reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
WotC (or their old leadership team) doesn't really seem to get how many D&D groups want to get into shady shenanigans.
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FitzTheRuke reacted to Lalato's post in the thread Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
My group thought for sure that they were going to be involved in a heist... or in a series of heists. They had fun with the adventure...
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FitzTheRuke reacted to Retreater's post in the thread Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
I'm famous for being an WotC curmudgeon on these boards. Even I was slightly interested in Radiant Citadel to use for the occasional...
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That aligns with my experience too. There's a definite age gap between the average gm age and average player age among the regulars who...
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I would love to see them do it like this. Paizo has kind of gone that way with their low and high level APs that one could conceivably...
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FitzTheRuke replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) No 5.5 AP Yet?.The only fault I have with what you're saying here is that the designers have specifically stated that they mean to design them that...
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FitzTheRuke replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) No 5.5 AP Yet?.I'm more thinking of all of the 5e APs, not anything epic-level (though I think if you built slowly and properly, you could pull THAT...
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FitzTheRuke replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) No 5.5 AP Yet?.I agree with you that buyers shouldn't be expected to hunt down interviews and blog posts, but I can't come close to agreeing that...
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FitzTheRuke replied to the thread Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer.I've run Dragon Heist twice, and while it has some structural issues, I think that it's pretty good. I think that the thing that it has...
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FitzTheRuke reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Taylor Navarro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
Like some of the other behind the curve 5E products (thinking Waterdeep Dragon Heist here), a lot of the problems also come from genuine...