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Seems to me that they will likely use the upcoming Forgotten Realms books format. One for players, one for DMs. I can't imagine how it...

Yeah I was kind of expecting a sort of DMG2-type deal to be alluded to, and there's still time for it to appear, but... the vibe I'm...

What does that mean to you. I ran a 5e game to 17th level and it never felt like superhero wuxia to me. So I feel like we have...

I am still hopeful (probably stupidly so) that they will publish a book that is all optional and variant rules and systems. I no longer...

I would suggest a significant number never played the game attritionally. We started with 1e AD&D and BECMI and we pretty much never...

Unfortunately true. The hobby would IMO be so much better off if it wasn't utterly dominated by the very squishy uber-game called...

To me that's just word salad. Like the range of possible things you could mean by that is so broad as to render it totally meaningless...

Yeah I have to admit I'm a little surprised that 2024, instead of introducing more optionality and optional rules and dials and so on to...

And yet... I think 80-90% of groups wouldn't even notice a problem. And indeed some significant fraction of that 80-90% would probably...

Again, you just need dials. Tell the users how to get the most out of the product for them.

Just make DnD built for Nova-ing or non-attritional combat. It's what people want and abandon the pretensions of being a normal dungeon...

Both of your points are why I'm eager to see more of their work outside a WotC context and when they're working "closer to the metal" as...

If Critical Role (and their audience) didn't believe they were good designers they wouldn't have poached them from Wizards. The...

Right. The amount of money that it would take up front in order to be able to overcome that inertia is immense. Companies with the...

The irony here, of course, is that no one actually believes they are any better at this than most other professional designers and...