Recent content by Parmandur

To be fair, that seems to be what they were doing before with the numbers

That level of market research is definitely one of D&D structural advantages.

To be even more blunt, I would recommend Robert O. Paxton's "The Anatomy of Fascism" as an informative and explanatory read.

Well, no, the vibe check is if people don't like an option...they won't publish it. It prevents stuff like Incarnum from seeing print, not fiddley details on design.

In the second set of books, when the Dragon begins his public reign, they found new institutions that get corrupted pretty much immediately.

Jordan took his fantasy pretty seriously as a method to convey his experience of the world: he was a military veteran, who then went to University before becoming a government employee as a scientist, and a religious Anglican and a Freemason. His experience of institutions is very much...

Because everyone else in the world is also, in the end, like a gaggle of chickens running around with their heads cut off.

No, doesn't look like it.

When VRG came out, I had three kids, now I have five.

So, sitting here thinking about it...the DM Adventure portion looks to be ~112 pages. If, as seems probable, Agalrond is the core area for PCs to be based out of, the average length of the regional gazateers in Adventures in Faerun is ~36 pages. Strategic use of the compact DMG short Adventure...

I do not imagine they are abandoning Dark Sun (in fact, I do think it is what we are getting later this year), just that a low-crunch Dragonlance Adventure in Q4 followed by Dark Sun in Q1 2027 would fit the available evidence just as well.

He mentioned it a bit ago, right, it takes a while for these things to percolate. I wouldn't be surprised if they originally intended for the Adventure to be a companion to a unitary FR Setting book before that mestatisized into two books. Now we have a Forgotten Realms specific Adventure with...

Was it delayed? Has the been officially stated anywhere? Arcane Unleashed is a product that has a number of highly thematic Subclasses, sure, but the crunch still doesn't account for the page count. The Adventure tie in having material that ties into the Adventure seems likely. It is on the...

They did add older editions to Roll20 fairly recently, not that I disagree with you.

I see no particular need, no.