Recent content by Parmandur

Jeremy Crawford was one of the designers on that, too.

I mean...sometimes that is just how the story goes. The units don't need to survive for the game to go on. Though it is probably good that the games have made permadeath optional.

Really pretty ingenious combo, along with the traditional permadeath makes the war game scenarios emotionally compelling. I got the Switch re-release of the original NES game, and it is pretty impressive how consistent the war game portion has been, and even the fairly barebones Famicom version...

I am super excited for Fortune's Weave (and Game Awards Game of the Year nominee Donkey Kong Bananza is right there, Switch 2 already has killer apps really), though I would quibble that it is not really an "RPG" : it is a miniatures wargame with strong narrative and character elements, which is...

It is pretty clear to me, at any rate, that any and all edition numbering system for D&D is super borked.

Lot of red flags in the mealy-mouthed comments on AI.

Spelljammer and Planescape were easier sells with less overt problematic elements, I reckon.

2E Dark Sun was, in fact, not a success on a financial angle. Ben Riggs made that pretty clear when he uncovered TSR sales data.

Moldvat B/X was the most successful and popular variant of D&D prior to 5E, and a major direct influence on the design of the modern game.

Other way around: Anglo-Saxon had a very robust gender system like other Geemanic languages including gendered articles let alone pronouns , as did Norman French. The theory is that the incompatibility of the gendering system of Old English and French was so confusing that as the languages...

Well, it isn't that Hungarian and Gagalog speakers don't have a concept of "gender" in social or biological terms, they just don't decline nouns the way Indo-European languages do. Some other languages decline nouns with completely different genus categories than social or biological gender: the...

That's a pretty good list...to be ludicrously complete, one could add as you say 4E Essentials (which kind of lives in a strange offshoot world like BD&D?), the refreshes for "1E" and "2E", and the final "Black Box" edition of Basic...but I think that even may be missing something.

Not quite how it squares in my mind, though I think that is a reasonable list, too. Main thing to me is that pretty much any attempt to clearly enumerate the variations of first party D&D (let alone the myriad variations of actual D&D!) is a fraught exercise that is going to be mostly based on...

Well, I lead with the caveat that I am not including OD&D or anyBasic, so that my list is also absurd. Just counting all versions of first parrt D&D I think I came up with seventeen distinct variations. But for ninth, I am sticking by a more traditional publishing understanding of the term...

By my reckoning, 2024 is the ninth edition.