Recent content by Parmandur

The low tactics element is a plus. Helps with running large, fully stocked Dungeons without being a slog.

They haven't really been updating other third party stuff: it is all compatible, at any rate.

Yeah, for one it would be silly to come directly at the market leader like that...but I also note that pretty much no other game desifners on the market making their own gamrs are actually interested in the thing that 5E does well: the high-action, low-tactics heroic Dungeon clearing game of...

Not necessarily of the Bookscan sales, which have been established as being a fraction of what D&D is selling. Per the numbers that Teos Abadia ran, the Booksscn numbers for D&D books seem to be conservatively like a fifth of the total sales. And that is small enough for the sampling to be off...

Listen, I like other games, too...but none of the games you mentioned is doing quite the same thing. Daggerheart does seem neat, and the Cosmere RPG is doing something new and exciting that D&D can't offer...but nobody is really living in that exact space in the exact same way as 5E, and I doubt...

The Wizards Play Network has over 6,000 stores. Former WotC employees have gone on record that the Books an numbers are woefully incomplete and don't give an entirely accurate picture, and a product aimed at Enfranchosed Magic players that sells in Magic card selling stores that cater to that...

Per Nate Stewart in early 2019, Racnica was at that time the fastest selling book in the 45 year history of D&D. You are, mp doubt, referring to the Books an data. The Bookscan data that does not include data from game stores where Magic fans hang out and buy Magic products... The only...

I tend to doubt that interpretation, based on my own experience. 5E is very good at scratching the D&D itch we used 3E for in College.

Or, hear me out, 5E is just a bit better at working the way a lot of people were playing and enjoying those earlier Editions. Maybe that flexible approach is a feature rather than a bug.

But that's the thing: D&D was always playable with Theagre if the Mind. In College, when I started with 3E, we played for years without maps or minis. What you describe as being "lukewarm" was part of the sauce that makes D&D work.

James Wyatt is a Principal Game Designer right now and write the new DMG, in addition to Theros and Racnica. He used to be the world building guru on Magic. The Magic D&D books sold like hotcakes, as did the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms cards. Indeed, that was the best selling set of...

Yeah, the canonical multiverse with the First World, Echoes and all that is just a suggested tool to give cover for DMs throwing any D&D product they want into a homebrew soup. So your homebrew has a Waterdeep, City of Grehhawk, Sharn, Barovia, Ashernadalon, Vecna, Mystara, etc? Don't worry...

Oh, wow, there is a blast from the past: I didn't have quite so intense a situation, but definitely remember big emotional tension when my board game crew and I played that.

Also Scooby Doo.

To go back on topic: I continue my rampage of orgiastic destructive mayham through Donkey Kong Bananza, and this might be one of the most purely satisfying emotional gameplay loops I have ever experienced. The pure joy of ripping up the world brick by brick, paroon Bananza mode when DK becomes...