Recent content by TheSword

As long as it’s nothing like Strixhaven 😜

Have you not been invited to the faculty?

It’s a good principle. You should play your character for as long as you enjoy playing your character. The point at which you stop enjoying it, well you get my drift. If a not-enjoyable character can be made enjoyable by changing a relatively minor detail then I honestly don’t see a problem...

By that logic why not give wizards access to all their spells? They can only cast one per round.

On this basis there are a hell of a lot more books on DM advice out there than it would first appear. I revisited How to Win Friends and Influence People recently, and it struck me: Dale Carnegie would’ve made a hell of a Dungeon Master. Not because he’d know the rules (he wouldn’t), but...

So I’ve been reflecting on the curious overlap between Dungeon Mastering and professional management. Not the “I’m the boss” kind of management, but the “I’m responsible for people with wildly different goals, temperaments, and attention spans, and I need them to work together without setting...

I kinda get why being able to switch them was added into the rules. If your fighter selects short sword and longsword but then finds a wondrous magical battleaxe it’s a bit crappy find a big chunk of your skill just doesn’t apply. Or perhaps their preferences change in that character. You...

I think it will show ongoing sales of the core books predominantly. Given how late in the quarter dragon delves was released.

Has this thread been forgotten? Indications generally seemed pretty rosy. Does it look like a dying/failing game? We should get the Q2 investor report next week. https://www.enworld.org/threads/according-to-the-hasbro-q1-earning-call-d-d-sales-are-up-substantially.713075/

Im kinda ok with that. Don’t really want to go back to the days of having 3hp at 1st level, a 22% chance of being able to pick a lock and 1 spell per day (which might be cantrip). 😉

I thought you liked Level Up though? That had undeniable power creep on 5e? A whole suite of extra abilities were added to every class? It’s not a problem but seems like a contradiction.

I get it though. It’s understandable for folks to want to enjoy a little bit of schadenfreude when there’s a chance something they like don’t like will diminish in comparison to something the do like. I’d be the same. We just shouldn’t take it too seriously if it turns out it’s speculation...

Eh. The article is from ICv2 which you just said was a credible source? Or is it only the articles there that you agree with that are credible sources. Bookscan is a sliver of a slice of the numbers. Great to discuss, and a good starting point, but they have to be put in context.

It’s all relative though right? If the monsters also creep what’s the problem?

I was reminded of this article on ICV pointing out the many errors in the claims made by just one of those people ‘studying the numbers’. Bookscan data isn’t reliable. It doesn’t include all the hobby store sales if any, online retailers or VTT/digital sales. My favorite quote from the article…...