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100% this. I did a deep dive into Gen Con events, looking at them over a six or seven year period. I'll try to remember to dig it up...

The data is freely available to anyone paying attention. You can just add up a bunch of publicly available numbers and get a pretty...

I'm convinced a lot of azon third party marketplace stuff is some sort of money laundering scheme.

So if we had 2,017 options each for class, ancestry, and background, each human on the planet could make a unique character. OK...

I’ll DM.

At some point, if you want to support one shots, this is a big deal. IMO, of course. But, yes, they'd need some better logic than I...

From the article describing their design process

I'm impressed it handles mixing 5e and 5.5e options so well. It let me use a 2014 class and a 2014 race with a 2024 background, and had...

I wonder if accounting for all the decisions you need to make while levelling is a blocker. DDB used to offer random characters, but...

Like if I could play D&D right now with that character, I 100% would.

It works great! Just built a dragonborn paladin. The background I took gave me wizard spells (shield, blade ward), so I had a nifty...

We need @mearls new Happy hour on YouTube again with his 5e game he’s working on via patreon :) those were alway fun to watch…with out...

This used to annoy me until Professor DM did a great rebuttal video, walking through details on how Youtube algorithms force click-bait...

For anyone wondering how D&D and TTRPGs are doing, I track crowdfunding as part of my job. We're up 20% year over year, and have a good...

I think this is the general media trend. If you wait for actual news to happen, you end up with a lot of dead air. You can always...