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From the OP article we're all commenting on (emphasis added):

This really seems like the best summary to me. It's clear that the project suffered from unclear & regularly shifting project scope + overpromises by corporate execs + misalignment with what the community actually wants. Combine that with a frankly embarrassing live demo with very high profile...

They finally added Rage huh? After all these years I was beginning to think it was a deliberate omission 🙃

Sure, but does anyone think there is/was any real risk that WOTC was actually going to sue Paizo over the babau demon (etc) after what happened with the OGL controversy?

As someone playing Pathfinder a ton over the past 3 years, IMHO the de-OGLification through the Remaster has been a complete pain in the neck, especially the renaming of classic D&Disms like magic missile. I'm not even sure how much of it was even necessary, once WOTC put everything in...

I remember seeing WOTC defences that "This is just about video games and movies" at the time. I also remember that not passing the sniff test at all at the time. I wonder if Mearls simply heard that defence from colleagues he liked personally, and thus trusted it as at least basically true. As...

How long are the 3 adventures in the Starter Box?

Not just solidarity but it's highly likely to be exactly what ENP are looking for. ORCs Unite!

I played SKT but we only went to the Hill Giant's lair. It was fun, although I've heard others are better, and have actually wondered about using them as Tier2 standalone short adventures! Which of the others would you say are the best in this kind of context (ie. as standalone assault missions...

See upthread:

If you want to optimise that build a bit better, drop your strength to 13+1 (in 5e and a5e, even numbers are where the modifiers go up). As per Venerable Bede, you could then switch the 13 from Cha to Con, and then use that point [technically, those 2 points] you took from Str to make it 14...

At first I thought (as a Christian who loves playing D&D) "oh no, what a train wreck!", but I have to say it's growing on me. Certainly those behind it are. A couple of people have commented on the Spartan choice. FWIW here's the designer's response about including them: And here's what they...

Tiny Hut has always been a ritual spell in 5e.

Scanning for cantrips in the Origins chapter in the updated v2a pdf, I pulled up: HERITAGE TRAITS AND GIFTS Gnome: minor illusion Orc (optional gift): resistance Aasimar: guidance Tiefling: produce flame CULTURES Deep Dwarf: resistance Dragonbound: choose from cleric or wizard; and a second...

looks like you'd definitely want to take Wisdom!