Recent content by Kurotowa

I hear that adventurers... take jobs unofficially. Ones that aren't posted to the official job boards after being vetted by the Sorcerer-King's templars. Doing all sorts of unapproved things for clients when they can't even be sure they'll be paid at the end. How scandalous. Wait a second. Did...

So here's a highly speculative train of thought... We've had several UA releases for unannounced books at this point; the Psion, Horror subclasses, and Arcane subclasses. People have been expecting another, because there's a big obvious gap of zero Barbarian or Druid subclasses in this set...

As PC options? Probably not. They like to keep these things clear and iconic. As NPC offerings? Very likely. The Revised MM already has multiple flavors of vampire on offer; Vampire classic, the stealthy Vampire Nightbringer, and the blood magic wielding Vampire Umbral Lord. I really doubt...

On the one hand, there's absolutely nothing special about Kara-Tur. It's a bog standard stand-in East Asia location. The only notable feature I ever saw mentioned was the spelljammer port. So there's very little pressing need to bring it back. But on the other hand... tradition has weight. The...

A lot of people have speculated that updated Genasi will be in there. If so, I wonder if they're going to be broken up into four different entries? Elves and Tieflings have different sub-types in Revised, but at least in MotM the different Genasi types had a lot more variation than them.

I suspect it's because, either by policy or by contract, they can't or won't offer a deal that prices the digital books at less than what the game stores sell the physical books at. No undercutting. They can only offer a discount on the digital-physical package deals, or on the Beyond exclusive...

No? Nothing stops you from getting the limited edition physical copies and then buying the digital releases separately. The bundle is only what's being offered for pre-order, not the exclusive means.

WotC is trying to walk a fine line between promoting their digital service and not undercutting the LGS. That's what the alt covers exist at all. They're purely a gimmick to promote LGS sales, because WotC considers the LGS an essential part of the community ecosystem. That's why the alt covers...

That's just the shaved head. Everything else is pure Bladesinger. Sword, spellbook, and spell VFX? Check. Action robes that are definitely not armor but wouldn't trip you up while fencing like the traditional Wizard gown? Check. Elf for that classic Bladesinger lore nod? Check.

That is a wild assumption based on highly speculative reasoning, with no actual evidence to back it up. Nothing in the officially released statements supports that idea. So I'm just going to file it under "Highly Doubtful" until we get an actual content index.

Let me tell you a story... Once upon a time, my father was a science fiction writer. He won some awards, even. That was long ago, though, and today he's dead and all his books have been out of print for decades. But my frail old mother still gets a small deposit every month, because it's super...

Big or small doesn't change the numbers. You can't just increase the price on the books and see no drop off in sales. Not with the economy how it is today. You think we wouldn't be having flame wars if WotC put out a book with a cover price of $80? A fatter, more expensive book is not a better...

And if none of those other methods are economical? If the choice isn't between digital and physical, but between existing and not existing? Look, I'm against unfair price gouging and against the "own nothing rent everything" model. But my parents were writers, and I'm very familiar with the...

Would I accept digital only books? No. I prefer having a physical book at the table, and I don't love Beyond's formatting. Will I accept small digital only add-ons that didn't make the cut for the main book? That I might. If it's niche releases at a reasonable price? Stuff that wouldn't justify...

It's not a cut and dried subject. Two offer a couple metaphors... car manufacturers don't owe anything to the horse whip makers they put out of business, but at the same time it's a really bad idea to eat your own seed corn. It's one thing to out perform a competitor with a superior product...