Recent content by Parmandur

So, here is the thing I NG about this discourse that I find weird: in big literary Fantasy hits of recent years, they tend to be more restrictive than Tolkien was (the Stirmligyt Archives has RPG has two playable Species, the Mistborn RPG will have three, and Sanderson is hardly unusual in...

Yeah, right now the UA tealeaves suggest three possibilities, which are not mutually exclusive: something Ravenloft, something Dark Sun, and something on the scale of Xanathar's and Tasha's. They already tested as many PC options between May 2025 and now as they did between May 2019 and May...

I worked in e-commerce for a large company for a while that had a fair number of Canadian customers...it's not fun, and honestly for a given American corporation the motive to really understand it is unfortunately low.

Well, he is speaking from experience, because he got hit with non-book tarriffs when he bought the Forgotten Realms books direct from WotC in Canada.

It would fit alongside Xanathar and Tasha well enough.

Yeah, the motivation seems to have been to stop Amazon's ability to undermine other retailers, now that WotC is "other retsilers" themselves. Easier said than done...

Well, the UA provided tests for both the Van Richten's Subclasses, I imagine we would see the Dark Gifts reimagined as Backgrounds, revisions of the Species, but mostly DM stuff like Monsters, Bastions, and Campaign Frames.

Yeah, a Forge of the Artificer style booster to Van Richten's Guide would not be Barovia centric.

Ooof.

Yeah, we are more in the dark than we have been for a few years... But not without precedent in most of 5E release history

Pfui!

He edited it to do so after it was pointed out as he said he would in the thread, sure. The initial version of the post did not.

Thing is, Hasbro pulled D&D out of the book channel, and now sell it as a game...dofferent stream. Amazon does not catsgorize new D&D books as "books". But really what WotC is focused on now is direct sales, apparently D&D Beyond physical & digital copies are like 66% of sales now.

I mean, it was kind of a great year for the D&D team...?

Absolutely, which is why I agree with the broader point of the original article. Still, this is the first time in 3 or 4 years where we have known so little, so it is a seachange.