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It appears that that is now a free adventure.

Ha! I found where the Red Wizards adventure was first teased. It was in this D&D Direct video from 2023. Chris Perkins's exact words were: "The Red Wizards, whose evil is on display in the D&D movie, will have their own epic story in 2025". Given that we know there isn't a big hardcover...

It now occurs to me that this might be the Red Wizard-themed adventure that was teased a while back, and that most of us (well, okay then, at least me) had been assuming was going to be the next big adventure book.

D&D Beyond's marketplace features a page for an upcoming digital adventure called Hold Back The Dead. The adventure will be free for registered users of DDB, and will be available from February 4th Deep in the Western Heartlands, an evil Red Wizard conspires to overtake the land. Face hordes of...

I like a lot of the changes described here, but I'm not ashamed to admit that this one made me the happiest!

Was it though? It turns out we do not have one specific day that can conclusively be said to be the release date for D&D. Early copies of the rules were being circulated in mid-1973, but as The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons tells it, it was only on February 7th that Gygax wrote to...

Interesting. I note that @brimmels article specifically says "Lanzillo said that the English-language, analog version (ie., physical books) of the 2024 Players Handbook" which is an odd thing to emphasize if that claim wasn't specifically made in the presentation. @brimmels are you able to...

It's order numbers, which I'm pretty sure includes everything sold via the site, including micro sales and digital dice. You could be right that the drop off was, in part, due to the termination of micro sales, but it seems unlikely (to me) that those were numerous enough to make much difference...

See, that's not entirely true. D&D Beyond's order numbering system (both the current one, and the previous one) runs sequentially, so if you buy enough digital things from WotC it is possible to track order numbers by date and come up with an estimate of the number of orders placed over time...

Thanks for the detailed responses, Mike. They are sincerely appreciated! I'm curious about the reference to a slowdown with 5.5 though. From this article: "Lanzillo said that the English-language, analog version (ie., physical books) of the 2024 Players Handbook reached the same sales numbers...

I agree with all of this. Some of our 4e sessions were essentially just one, long, complicated battle scene and just as enjoyable as the sessions that weren't. However, there did tend to be one or two players who designed their characters expressly to maximize their opportunity to have...

It was a very late (1999) 2e mutation with some Diabloesque oddities like mana-based spellcasting and an equipment slot system. Now that I pull it off the shelf to look at it again, it is nowhere as dreadful as I remember it being. But the quality isn't the point, given that we're trying to...

Not for the first time, I'm going to point out that this product marketed itself as the "Diablo II Edition" of D&D. I'm fairly confident it sold fewer copies than even OD&D. Consider: If we all agree to hate on this as definitively the worst-selling edition, we needn't have this debate again...

Yes, ten months. There is a thread on the D&D Beyond forums tracking the details of errata, but it hasn't been updated since January 2023 which, to be fair, seems to be when the last errata was published (for Tyranny of Dragons). In the last two years, as far as I know, Wizards hasn't published...

I have good news for you: the Bloodied condition has been reintroduced in the 2024 version of 5e.

I'd take a long, hard look at the action economy (and probably end up with something a lot closer to 5e). Combats in 4e, especially at higher-levels, could become a confusing mess of nested opportunity actions, since each creature could take an opportunity attack on every other creature's turn...

I know you said this wasn't aimed at me, but I believe that your claim is, in fact, provable as false. When 4e launched, WotC made PDFs of the books available through DriveThruRPG. However, these were delayed by one month. The physical PHB released on 6 June 2008 and the PDF on 9 July. Since...