Recent content by Jared Rascher

I don't need to be right. It could just be a gut feeling. But even when the shroud of the pandemic started to lift, there wasn't any hurry for WotC to gather any people together to hype up new releases, and Greg Tito has as much as said that corporate said they didn't want to bother with the...

That's why I was thinking this will keep products in the zeitgeist longer, because the season structure felt less like, "buy this thing coming out," "It's out." "Buy this next thing coming out." Ideally we'd get back to having streaming events as well, but I think WotC burned too many...

If nothing else, the season structure being what it is, they may actually talk about a product before and after it is released, which would be a nice change from the last few years.

It would be interesting if we got an expanded Barovia with some of the old settlements added back in, but I don't know how much they want to complicate portrayals since Curse of Strahd is still one of their most popular adventures. But the southern region of Barovia had some interesting story...

I definitely get the feeling if this is the reworked version of the Thay adventure Perkins was talking about, that it got delayed a bit in the middle, and probably got reworked a bit. They generally didn't mention details of an adventure unless it was within about a year or so of coming out...

I am floored that they think they can simulate a focus group with AI. First off, its easy to screw up a focus group with selection biases, but how can you even think you're getting something analogous to a human being's perspective? It sounds more like something to satisfy your need to say that...

Yeah, but we've gotten a few things that never saw a second public rollout, they just got changed in the background. Like removing the amethyst dragon pet from the Purple Dragon Knight.

Backgrounds are some of the least backward compatible aspects of 5.5, and the main way they expressed Knights of Solamnia and Mages of High Sorcery were through backgrounds, so at the very least, I would expect them to revise some those backgrounds, if DL was on the near horizon. They've been...

Given the pitfalls of possible themes in Dark Sun and how little WotC wants to get into nuanced aspects of the game that would take a lot of sidebars and discussions about what to include and not include table by table to do responsibly, I wouldn't be shocked if someone said didn't say, "what if...

Eve of Ruin also features a version of Tasha that has never been Iggwilv yet, and you visit the Death House before the way its portrayed in Curse of Strahd, so cross planar timelines don't appear to be as absolutes.

If we think they wouldn't put Soth back in Ravenloft because Margaret Weis would be unhappy with it, its probably at least as distaistful to her that Krynn even HAS a Shadowfell. Krynn doesn't have the same kind of cosmology as other D&D worlds, when it's allowed to have its own cosmology. The...

I'm not saying anything will or won't be included or walked back or changed, but . . . 25% of the monsters in the Monster Manual have lore directly contradicts their 2014 lore as well as how they were presented in various adventures pre-5.5e, so I'm not sure that anything from the 2014 era is...

Honestly, I don't think anybody is too worried about justifying this within past continuity any longer. WotC Dragonlance isn't old TSR Dragonlance, and even new Hickman and Weis modern Dragonlance isn't old Hickman and Weis Dragonlance, because time broke and got put back together.

Is that serpentine creature in the Deadfall artwork a yuan-ti . . . or a sarrukh?

I don't know if I'm all in on this content given the state of the world, or if even the cathartic aspects would be too much of a reminder of things.