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I haven't carved through this whole thread yet but I'll toss in my experiences. The first time I saw the need for an X-Card was during an Apocalypse World game where a player used a move to sexually assault a prisoner. The DM stopped the game and said not cool and we moved on. That experience...

It does in Cypher. In 5e, you can use CR to tell you the baseline stats.

I love boring monsters. More specifically, I don't need a lot of mechanics -- I focus on making monsters interesting in the fiction of the game. Numenera and Cypher really rammed this into me. The idea that you could have a "level 7 monster" and that was all the stat line you needed.

I will say, having played and run monsters from all three of those books now for a while, that I really like the D&D 2024 monsters. First, there are simply more of them in a single book which works well for me at the table. Second, the stat blocks are all on a single page which is something both...

En world always gives me a good view of the different angles on a topic like this very thread has for my show earlier today!

Yeah. Reading back I think we agree. I got swept up in several other posts questioning how valuable steaming is to D&D. I’m inclined to expect WOTC knows their business.

Here’s another: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5489813/dungeons-dragons-dimension-20-critical-role-madison-square-garden-stadium

It came from big longitudinal surveys they ran back then. Way bigger surveys than we typically see in this hobby. It wasn’t anecdotal. WOTC definitely has more at stake making sure these observations are right than we do. I don’t know what evidence we have to day that things changed since...

How will they handle the problematic content of Dark Sun? Will this be a big sourcebook or a big adventure? Is it going to be a boxed set or one or more books? Those are all interesting questions, but I think there's one main question that's on everyone's mind... How are they going to shoehorn...

https://nerdist.com/article/insight-check-greg-tito-of-wizards-of-the-coast-talks-about-the-future-of-dd/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180318162847/https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16666344/dungeons-and-dragons-twitch-roleplay-rpgs-critical-role-streaming-gaming

How might we determine if there’s a sponsorship or not? If Critical Role starts advertising D&D Beyond or uses D&D branding at all, is that a good sign that they’ve taken a paid sponsorship? If they don’t show a lot of D&D branding or any sort of DDB use, would that be a sign there isn’t a paid...

I think the Vasa is what led to Sigil. "Hey, we tried this back in 4e and it totally didn't work. Let's try it again now!" If Ben's Gencon seminar is to be believed, they had a guy spend two years full time trying making like 1/5th of the spell effects they needed for Sigil because a bigwig...

Corporate executives often assume they can beat nature, physics, and math. Remember the Vasa.

I was listening to the latest Ben Riggs podcasts and thinking about htis post from back in January 2024 and thought it might be fun to look at his predictions and see where things really ended up: There were some firings. We do have a Stranger Things starter set coming out. I think predictiing...