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New WotC Game Design Director for Dungeons & Dragons: Justice Ramin Arman! His previous position was Managing Game Designer at...

This is really great news. What I really love about the new Starter Set that Justice led is that it is so crazy usable. There was so...

We need a miscibility chart!

In my experience, the players just use the stuff on their character sheets. Core rules (like grapple and stealth) default to 2014, since...

Yikes. Strange and incorrect takes. I feel like YouTubers are getting more and more like this all the time.

Thinking a little bit about how something like this happens, I'd wager that they talked about changing Dash for D&D 2024 but didn't. I...

Exactly. For an off-turn dash to fire off movement, a game object needs specific permission to move. Otherwise everyone could move on...

To pull an example of the opacity in how thing work - a lot of folks think of D&D Essentials as my baby, a project I created for reasons...

I've never seen people outside of Wizards really understand how work on a project breaks down. It's an opaque process at times even...

I hesitate to nominate myself, but my adventures for Shadowdark have gotten some high praise from reviewers for their layout. I'm using...

I definitely am. I still think Shadowdark is the best gateway into D&D and RPGs.

The 3.0 ones did well! However, hardcovers do even better. I think it was in late 90s that TTRPG publishers figured out that people...

I like that on forums the only algorithm is other people deciding if they want to engage.

After some years of making 5e characters in particular, I am struck by the usefulness of ENWorld vis a vis dedicated blogs and sites...

That's always been thw trouble for anu company producing TRPG material: we don't need much to play for years, and we can share books and...