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The problem is obvious... Look at the specifics. Wotc was talking up PC power creep. It doesn't matter if monsters are strong enough...

It's amazing watching people defend power creep as not being there after wotc themselves talked up power creep as a deliberate and...

An increase in options will cause power creep even if those options are no stronger than before. The original set is a distribution...

Sure. I am playing it now and have a different opinion. It is not an improvement. I know folks who disagree but the level of mixed...

we have no proof either way, that does not mean the default assumption is that it did unless we have proof to the contrary however...

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1330.html Clever moment from Nale.

I prefer -or should probably say become interested when- a round of Ennies has some Best Game and Best Rules nominees that solidly...

I get it, but I don't think it's my sense of wonder that is the issue. It's that in an RPG I am used to buying game systems and not...

We did have a little fewer releases last season, but beyond Moria we also submitted The Electric State RPG, Black Powder & Brimstone...

Definitely not possible to make everyone happy, but it probably isn't the same groups that are upset on the two occasions.

Pretty much the same. I find myself looking at the Hall of Fame inductees and thinking, "Yeah, I want to play that" more than I do most...

If you go back say 15 or 20 years ago, I understood why everyone was excited about and appreciated pretty much every title that would...

What makes me feel old is how out of touch everyone seems to be with everything now. Video games, TTRPG, boardgames, anime/manga...

I must be way out of the ttrpg loop as I haven’t heard of the majority of these RPGs nor their publishers that got nominated for ENnies...

It kind of goes along with the idea, "What the DM says goes, and if the DM says enough stupid stuff, the players go"