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My main takeaway from this article is that the entire role-playing games market - of which D&D is the leader but only one player - is, in its entirety, worth about $45 M. That is... shockingly small. By comparison, "non-collectable miniature sales" were over $200 M - literally more than 4x as...

It's stuff like this thread necro and subsequent posts that really bring into focus what this community seems to love above all else - what truly brings us all together: arguing over minutia. :) God I love ENWorld.

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A thread about opinions! Everyone loves giving opinions, so I'll post too! I think D&D has a large number of rules concerning combat - really more than anything else - which tends to make it seem focused on combat. (4.0 was 10x more focused this way.) But D&D is a game about people sitting...

I have been running the campaign using milestones instead of XP and that is my preferred method for several reasons (lack of bookkeeping, encourages non-combat problem solving, can adjust more easily, etc.). One slight oddity is that since it's more "objective" based this means sometimes the...

Wow. The whole idea that people would jump all over this hiring decision is kind of horrible. It's especially bad for a niche (ish) hobby that is trying to grow and be more inclusive in order to broaden itself and make itself better. The thread that got closed on this site is pretty bad...

There's a huge difference between "book bloat" and "basically 1 book a year." 3 books must include adventures because otherwise I've seen nothing. You can't just claim the other extreme is bad and pretend you've made a point. I still feel like they must have a reduced staff and reduced...

https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/19/16795148/dungeons-and-dragons-movie-release-date "The D&D movie has been in some stage of pre-production since 2015..." 4 years = infinity in the movie business. None of the current people or companies attached may even still be attached in 4 years; it may...

I'd like more of a reason for there to be a community. Here's my downer of a post about where I feel like the game is today: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?606054-Mike-Mearls-Reddit-AMA&p=7311927&viewfull=1#post7311927

Personally, I'm a little disappointed that nothing posted (didn't read the AMA) went into bigger-picture stuff. These were all just minor, nit-picky details and opinions. Like most AMAs, nothing was actually said. And after a year of nearly no news, the lack of additional news is really...

I haven't read any responses and I see we've got at least one super-long line-by-line response which indicates a complex and likely heated argument already, so I'm just going to throw in my 2 cents: we completely ignore material components, except when they require items that cost money, in...

This is sort of a boring answer, but according to the map it's just forests, and then after a short ways you can get to the village or to the pool encampment. So really any forest encounter would be appropriate: werewolves, dire wolves, a trinket, bandits, a revenant, etc. If you're asking...

It really depends. Some DMs run games so that any "off-screen" NPC is basically a target at any given moment. This can be tense, but it can also be tedious. Sometimes it gets frustrating because you feel like you have to keep everyone plot-important in your field of vision at all times or...

I hand-waved a huge chunk of it, yeah. By the time my players got there, they were all about level 8 and nothing was really a challenge, so they mostly explored it and got a lot of flavor text and not much else. Plus there is oddly about 4 or 5 different ways for them to figure out about...

Our group's chosen NPC from the card draw was Sir Godfrey. Spoiler: he is a knight of a fallen order who was killed by Strahd. I have been playing up the chivalrous side of Sir Godfrey, so when he first encountered Strahd he launched into a short speech about how he had sworn vengeance. So...

Probably indifference. The Abbot has a plan that he KNOWS will work (in his insane mind). He probably won't be bothered with Ireena, as he probably doesn't know how important she is to Strahd, and even if he does he'd likely think she'll just get killed anyway, like all the others. My Abbot...

This makes perfect sense to me. :)

That sounds like a good plan. As others mentioned, the Wachters will quickly make a move once they know Izek is not a threat. So the Barron will try to make a deal to get his man back - "all is well" if they return him - but if it doesn't work, he could try to get them evicted but by the next...

/answered :)

It took a while but I see what you're saying here. While I would personally rule that transferring the spell to a new target would be the equivalent of casting, frankly it doesn't matter if the king sees you or not: Hex is a no-save, no-attack, 1st-level spell that takes a bonus action to cast...