Recent content by Parmandur

Honestly, give how barebones the 1E depiction is, even the box set, and that it is written by an obviously biased unreliable narrator as a tool to let DMs customize...I never saw any conflict between rimming the OG Greyhawk with stuff like Goliath and Dragon on, etc.

Honestly, thinking more about these details...kind of feels like the Lady doth protest too much...

Anybody going to be at the panel here? Or is it being streamed? @darjr

So, the word that was used several times was "consultant"...with Widlemoint, Mercer and Co did a lot of work, with supervision and close help from the core D&D team whipping it into shape. The panel going on at GaryCon right now has Justice Arman with Luke Gygax, so they may go into more detail...

Yup, Daggerheart is a pretty creative 2d12 resolution system. Cosmere uses a roll over d20 resolution system, so the math in the core mechanic is not un-D&D-ish, but other than a surface level of the GM asking a player to roll a d20 for action resolution it is not a 3E/5E derived system overall.

Right, but the fallout when a lot of those sorts of things started getting revealed is when WotC distanced themselves from most of the celebrity D&D scene.

Cosmere uses a d20 core mechanic, but it is not a variation of the "d20 system" any more than Runequest and Rolemastwr are the same system.

Cosmere and Daggerheart are not really d20 engine games.

You were painting a scenario that had nothing to do what is in the rules.

He explicitly said that we would, yup, and the 2028 lineup at GenCon 2027, etc.

Well, yup, that was probably a big part of thst phase ending.

Yup, for sure, all sorts of possibilities. Hard to say what exactly happened at this point

We have had Widlemoint, we have had Witch light, we have had the many Settings of the Radiant Citadel. Mostly, third parties have absolutely exploded with Settings in the past decade, and at this point WotC is putting those up on Beyond.

Not evidence for anything in particular, just clarifying the timeline for the shakeup that Ayoub described.

Just clarifying the timeline, I honestly don't know what it means: but the most explicit Dark Sun test came well after the shakeup Ayoub was describing.