Recent content by FitzTheRuke

Yes, I know. My premise was that mismanagement caused missed opportunities, which I have been surprised to need to defend.

Good thing that there are many ways to do it in 5e, then!

Again, the point wasn't to do a half-baked WoW now, or even 20 years ago, but to have done it first. I totally understand that they weren't capable of it - not back then, and not even now - but I still argue that it could have been done by someone with vision. They obviously lacked (and continue...

Yeah, sorry gang. It's been a bit chaotic around here. I'll push us forward ASAP. (Also: I keep hoping Snarf will pop up!)

I agree. I don't see the problem with having settings that have small curated lists of what's available. You don't need to change "kitchen sink" settings like FR to achieve that. But Dragonlance, Dark Sun, and that sort of thing, ought to be extremely limited by comparison.

I'm not missing it - that was a solid part of my point. Even BG3 shows short-sightedness in that area (and video games is only a small part of what I'm talking about when it comes to agreeing with the concept of "under-monetizing the D&D brand"). What did WotC do when BG3 was wildly...

You're missing my point - D&D is the grandpappy of all CRPGs AND MMOs. They wouldn't exist without D&D. The fact that Warcraft made billions of dollars while D&D (at the time at least) remained relatively obscure is, IMO, a sign of short-sightedness when it comes to its potential. It has nothing...

D&D IS undermonetised, though. I agree that I worry that corpo-speak and myself are talking about two different things - but it has always been shocking to me that we only recently have been able to buy, say, mugs with the ampersand on it. Or how World of War craft and all the money it made...

Cartographer is not that weak. Just the Initiative Bonus of the Map alone is significant, as is the ability to target spells at other mapholders without line-of-sight. Some folks underestimate the power of Support Characters.

One idea that might have legs, and combines a lot of the above: A setting where the "civilization" is along a rocky shoreline, with a mountainous interior (full of monsters, naturally) that has developed submersibles (like Spelljammer under the sea) and underwater exploration is one of (but not...

I do it differently every time I make a setting. On purpose. So, I agree with everyone here that if we're going to make up something new for 5e24, I'd say we ought to avoid the "Big Continent" as it has been done to death. A detailed mini-setting that is more fleshed out, more varied, and more...

I've had it happen, when I wanted to make a list using asterixes, and it converted it all to italics. I am happy to learn about escape codes, seeing as I really can't stand it when what I write gets changed by programming to something else. I'd rather format things manually.

I think that's one of their points for leaving the rules about it as vague as they have: It's up to the Player and their DM to decide how the character stores their armour when they "doff" it. It could shrink to a single gauntlet, fold itself into a backpack, be stored in a pocket dimension...

How does one do that? (You don't need to get into all the details, a broad summary of steps would satisfy me).

Two, usually. But yeah, even though I feel that things are generally announced TOO FAR in advance these days for truly good marketing, I also feel like we should know something about next year's stuff by now. I could be wrong, but I feel like they don't usually (other than the 2024 MM, of...