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People have been proclaiming the actual or imminent death of D&D since 1974. Waves of enthusiasm for the idea come and go, and since...

I don't know that it is either problem. As D&D rode a skyrocket through the pandemic, it was picking up new players, and they were...

I wouldn't even put it down to the fanbase fracturing due to this or that event. I haven't seen much evidence of that outside of very...

Not really true. Either way, not the point. The point is that there are tons of high quality professional level stock art options out...

Absolute nonsense. What do you think us small time publishers did prior to 2023? Not only is there high quality inexpensive stock art...

True, but half the reason for that is that the PHB full casters got stealth buffed with every book because they kept adding new spells...

My memory of 3.5e is that the quality control was pretty uneven. Each new supplement was packed full of player options. Of those, some...

Reincarnate is very quintessentially part of the old "Hardcore Mode Roguelike" style of D&D. You roll up your character and see how far...

Minimal art direction was the standard of the time. Book covers for science fiction and fantasy novels were infamous for having little...

Alright, I'll take you folk's word and accept it as "very likely Lord Soth". I just wanted to be sure. I've seen some hasty and unhinged...

Keep in mind that the MM art piece for a Death Knight in 2014 was explicitly Lord Soth. I'm no expert myself, but having done an...

Yes, his helmet is very distinctive.

Okay, just a quick sanity check. I was never the biggest DL lore nerd, so cross check me on this. Is there anything about the art image...

Maybe it's a generational thing. I started playing D&D at a young age in 1990. Those DL modules originally came out across '84-'86. So...

It wasn’t the setting that was particularly popular, it pretty generic, with a lot less variety and support for different types of story...