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I studied this market. Dungeons and Dragons has less then an eighteen percent chance of surviving the next two decades without the loss...

Ok. I'll just ask one more question: does the PC taking the out of turn narrative-driven action lose their action when their initiative...

Well, I don't think the hobby needs an 800lb gorilla influencing the design and business choices of every other company. I'd much rather...

Is there anything you can do differently? Consider that there is no "reduced power" statblock for any creature. Or that the CR system...

To be fair, my group played 4e like a boardgame every week for six months after we dropped it as an RPG. It was a lot of fun.

So, everyone except WotC then?

Sure, but one day is not a lot of time and keeping constant time pressure at such a pace becomes contrived. Also, what is the GMing...

Sure, but for such players that's the GM's fault for intentionally making the game less fun for them.

I am not sure that the failure of 4e means that we can draw this conclusion, there was more ‘wrong’ with 4e than the tight balancing...

Some people would find that an excellent excuse for a bunch of awesome fights.

Not all players, certainly, but some folks, like I said above, mostly only care about the power fantasy and showing off. These folks...

Yes it absolutely is railroading by way of fiat, blatantly so. Even worse is that the system & class design is designed in ways that...

A good counter example might be Games Workshop, who has their two main-line games and then a host of side games all over the gamut of...

Earth 828 is not our Earth. And the Fantastic Four weren't just the Avengers in a blue uniform. From what the movie told us, they had...