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No. 1e and 2e have spells in the PHB explicitly so that PCs can make magic items. PCs making magic items and spells was a staple of...

It assumes no such thing. What it does assume is that NPCs make lots of magic items and cast lots of spells, backed up by literally...

It negates it completely. If Eberron was "built specifically for 3e mechanics," but BECMI, 1e, 2e, 4e, and 5e do functionally the same...

Paperback DMG?! That would have been awesome. Now just to note I only wanted the paperbacks AFTER I got the hardbacks. I love physical...

Right, but that's my point. Wizards is coasting on past glory. They haven't even tried to launch and support a new setting for a decade.

I think you are partially right, yet people use it that way: and 5E bends rather than breaks.

Not at all, it is the themes and story that make ot work. That is why there is no tension running it on 4E or 5E, or in GURPS or Savage...

i think it lines up fairly well with the theme of the conversation, a better point of what i said besides pointing out the double...

and it makes sense to me that trying to sculpt the wild energies of more complex and higher level magics would have a bigger chance of...

Yeah. Back in 3e it really bothered my group that fighters became more likely to fumble every round as they rose in level gaining extra...

Odd, in that the more dice you roll at once the less random (i.e. more predictable) the result is likely to be; the law of averages will...

Monty Python references are almost always forgiven, at least in my house.

I don't consider 3PP settings here. It needs to be Wizards, with a real push, multiple adventures, source books, and marketing...

Because they are not buying, or more specifically they are not buying novelty. As far as I can tell, the really remarkable sales story...