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2E wasn't as much of a mistake, so much as 1E was: AD&D was all a mistake. Moldvay/Holmes should have been the only D&D product...

You're a Capricorn, aren't you.

Plato also believed the geocentrism model, that the sun and the moon and the stars rotated around it. The fact that an intelligent...

I finally finished the series. Holy cow! I had no idea TSR offered Gygax a sweetheart deal to settle his suit out of court. He would...

Do they not work together? That seems silly, having Beyond do the conversion math seems like it would be easy.

More from Hasbro. While their games division is exposed to around $10m, their toy division is exposed up to $300m. [CNBC article]

The reason 5e succeeded, is doing surveys to find out what most customers wanted. That earlier editions of D&D didnt do this in any...

However, History seems to have largely proven that approach was a mistake: we know that 2024 has already outsold the lifetime sales of...

What recent third party additions are unusable on Beyond...? WotC seems to have taken MCDM, KP, and other 3rd party stuff from 5.1 and...

Maybe: I think more time makes further changes even less and less likely. There is no ROI reason for WotC to make those changes: future...

The third party stuff going up on Beyond doesn't seem to be changed. It all still works together.

Thr PHB has been pretty well received, too...? Massively improved the flow of character creation, structurally, and the organization of...

The PHB has to be the player-facing side, so it tends to be more scrutinized since people tend to focus on the core elements (classes...

I would say that would make any such change even less likely: if after 10 years, backwards compatibility was a primary goal...after 20...

Remember he's arguig from an enlightened self-interest rather than from a communal standpoint; that is to say what is best for HIM, not...