Recent content by Sorcerers Apprentice

This seems like a sound financial decision. The market for "live service" games has gotten really crowded, only the top games are making money. If you're only laying off 44 people after cancelling the project, it probably didn't have a sufficient budget to be competitive.

Why are these people joining a levelup5e game when they don't actually want to play levelup5e?

The difference is that part of the rules of RPGs is that the GM decides what the rules are, changing the rules as needed is part of the GMs role in the game. Also, the GM isn't necessarily the host. I've played in games where one of the players hosted the game at his home, provided beer and...

Maybe we shouldn't color-code dragons any more than we color-code humans?

Some spells: Fold Person (2nd) Find the Bath (6th) Fish (9th)

Sure it's possible. You can have a gaming community where everyone GMs at least occasionally, but not everyone ever runs a PC.

Supposedly Imoen was not intended to be a companion in BG2 past the tutorial dungeon. She would still get abducted and you'd spend the first half of the game looking for her. But by the time you catch up with her she would have been fully corrupted by Bhaals essence and turn into the Slayer, so...

Video game development is always a gamble. BG3 was probably one of the safer bets this decade, seeing how well received the early access release was back in 2020.

Did you read that article? It says Larian was on the brink of bankruptcy while they were developing Divinity: Original Sin. But D:OS was released in 2014 and was a major success, averting the bankruptcy and funding Larian's huge expansion. There's no sign of any particular money trouble for...

A necromancer can get crazy DPR if they have enough undead minions.

The main thing I dislike about iconic villains coming back from the dead no matter what is that it reduces the satisfaction of defeating them. No matter how much the PCs hate Sammaster and want to destroy him, if they are paying attention to the lore they know any victory is just temporary. For...

I wish they had released this 5 years ago when I was playing Tomb of Annihilation. It would have been the perfect beer to accompany exploring Chult!

I remember during the OGL debacle, a youtuber claimed he had an inside source telling him that WotC never reads feedback comments. Several WotC employees on the D&D design team responded that this was not true, and claimed that they absolutely do read the comments.

We'll see when the book actually comes out. If the PDKs are still described as an order of dragon riders, we know they only listened to feedback about mechanics, not lore. I doubt there's more than a couple of paragraphs of lore about the PDKs in the original draft, so if they have time to...

If you want to play a D&D character who rides a dragon, then I think the best way is to pitch to your gaming group a campaign where the characters are all dragonriders. Then the DM can adapt the challenges the group faces to the extra mobility and combat power a dragon mount gives. No halfway...