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Like I said it depends on your metric. If you are going to ask if adoption has been "enthusiastic", you need some metric by which to define and judge that. Gross sales is one, but perhaps not the right one.

It was only really a successful business tactic from 4E to 5E. Looking historically: 1E to 2E --> Not successful and drove TSR into bankrupcy 2E -->3E --> Successful only because 2E was dead. Kind of hard not to improve. 3.5E --> 4E Disaster 4E --> 5E This is the only complete edition...

It depends on the metric. The new 2024 rulebooks are vastly outselling the previous expansion books published in the last few years, so if your metric is popularity in terms of digital sales then the answer is yes.

FWIW I don't.

I don't think the designers wanted to design a new game, I think the driver for a new edition was mostly financial and selling new game material, which doesn't happen without a new "Players Handbook".

I don't really agree with this. If you are considering only combat and levels 1-20 I would say both Monk and Fighter with the 2024 subclasses are better. If you are considering all three pillars over 1-20, fighter is a lot better IMO.

It is not printed, but it is widely covered in all the WOTC guidlines and discussion on backwards compatibility. You can find it many places online, here is one exerp with a link following: ":So the classes, subclasses, feats, species backgrounds, and all the rest that you have in the new...

They cast Druid spells, not Magic-User Spells. Humans and Half-Elves. But ironically you needed to dual class first before you could become a Bard (Fighter-Thief) and Half-Elves technically could not dual class in 1E. This made a wierd system in our games where a Half-Elf PC could "declare"...

I think they did listen to the fans on some things and that us why they backtracked on Warlock and Wizard changes, stablocks for wild shape and familiars, sneak attack on your turn only etc. On the other hand, I am not sure they did listen to the fans on other things like Twin Spell and Magic...

I strongly disagree with this. I think there are 40 subclasses in the 2014 PHB and there are far more subclasses in later books which were written based on the 2014 rules. To capture all these, the appendix on old subclasses would need to be larger than the part of the book on classes. I...

I would post in a forgotten realms sub-forum, but I don't see one? Olive Ruskettle is a Halfling in the Azure Bonds novels that came out in the 80s. In the Novels she is essentially a Bard, and says she is a Bard, but because only Humans, and Half-Elves could be Bards in 1E the novels go to...

Slow is pretty awesome in play. Probably better than Hypnotic Pattern IME, generally not as effective as Fear, but situationally better and generally way better than fireball.

In my experience yes. Older people are more concerned about themselves.

It can't prove the opposite unless human artists made better images for you and even if they did, that is anecdotal. It is a comparison - I believe AI is better than human's in this area. That is a comparison, for that to be proven wrong you need art made by humans to compare it to. I did not...

Because young people tend in my experience to be more likely to be against anything. Young people are more likely to take a stand on moral grounds (whether right or wrong) IME and that is what being anti-AI is mostly.

I don't think it is this at all. While younger people may use it more, younger people also tend to be more idealistic and the stance against AI is primarily an idealistic one, not a practical one. In other words if we assume for a moment that those using AU are not against it, I would argue...

I don't think this is true. I think younger people are more likely to be anti-AI

I don't know how that is relevant. I am comparing AI art to human artists. What did the human Artists do with their similar images? I am not saying AI art is perfect, all I am saying is that it is generally better than human artists when it comes to female body proportions for fantasy RPG art.

The body proportions on AI art of females in general is better that that of human artists in the fantasy RPG genre. Maybe they do a better job censoring it, maybe it is because their training data is more diverse and doesn't pull from the Barbie-in-chainmail-bikini trope that humans tend to...

I am with you on fingers, but WRT fantasy RPG art, I think AI is generally better than human artists when it comes to body proportions, especially on female humans/humanoids. I think this is because LLMs are less likely to have sexist biases than human artists are.