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that goes back to what I said earlier, not wanting communism does not mean you want pure capitalism, both are pretty bad, but one of them at least works out for some billionaires (arguably the other was never really tried, but imo it very much goes against human nature, so is bound to fail)...

I doubt most would call themselves capitalist, and I doubt most would consider unrestricted capitalism to be a good thing. Not wanting communism is not the same as considering pure capitalism to be a good thing. Outside of some billionaires and their bought for politicians I am not sure you will...

who cares, that is like a KKK member denying they are racist, and yes that happens too

breaking things is the easy part, I wish that were not the end of their philosophy, but for all intents and purposes it is

you mean 29.99, because most of the time things are not in sale… agreed, but if you want to play the game, you need the core books, this one at least only has two, unlike 5e

I’d assume an assassin has a pretty good idea when someone is dead vs when a heal wounds is going to get them right back up. As to your broader point, the assassin sneaking in and poisoning everyone and they die (or maybe half do while the others make their save) is not really any better… I...

even with focused fire they did not take anyone out, so targeting more PCs would be an even worse strategy. The smart assassin knows that they are outnumbered and have to get away before the party has a chance to take them out. All your idea accomplishes is that the only dead person for sure is...

Esp since the whole party survived, the next attempt will be hitting harder…

that very much depends on how you go about it. Either way, as I wrote, the goal was to increase sales, that this might have a negative impact on the competition is a side effect, nothing more.

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I liked the beasts and NPCs in their separate sections, those two are easily enough to identify. The monsters either do as in 2014 or truly alphabetical, but not this new mix of more alphabetical but with weird exceptions

Selling more products is not generally considered an evil goal, and that is really all Ryan was saying. I doubt you would consider it evil if some company managed to sell cars for $20k that rival Fords or Mercedes or whatever 50k cars. Is them getting Ford / Mercedes market share as a result of...

I disagree. If you agree that, as Ryan said, the problem with the proliferation of systems was the resulting industry wide low sales because no one had the pull to attract enough new customers to TTRPGs for the hobby to survive, then the consequence of that environment persisting would be that...

3e was pretty dominant, and ‘lowest level possible’ is not zero. That WotC then dropped the ball and released a 4e without OGL didn’t help that side-effect though no, it is an expected side effect of increasing the popularity of D&D, even in his telling. Here is a less selective quote “If you...