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I was a WOTC community rep so I got cases for free as long as I demo'd at game stores to earn points. I use these storage racks for mine: Really Useful Boxes If you get the scrapbook drawers hobby tray, then they are near perfect. They are also very useful for lego piece storage.

That was in an age where you got 8 minis for $15 and the rare distribution was sane. You could buy a box and be close to a whole set. WizKids give you 4 minis for 20 and have chase rares. They gouge the mess out of you. Fewer people buy and fewer minis exist so the secondary markets eat you...

Weird. I have not found a single book at B&N worth buying in over a year. I use B&N to look for new authors as I like to browse physical books. I still have my stable of authors that I buy but many are aging and not producing as much content. I find content discovery very difficult now...

Dragon Age: Origins is so much better in a PC. You can usually find the ultimate edition fairly cheap.

Has anyone else found it difficult to find decent new sci-fi and fantasy books? The shelves seem loaded with romantasy junk now. I have found that I am focusing on re-reading my existing library and I have virtually stopped trying new authors with the exception of a few indie authors on Amazon...

I re-read them every few years but I am also a fast reader. I can usually finish in 2-3 weeks.

I really hope they are not making design choices as a reaction to social media.

Blind bag minis.

I guess I should have said "no one in this discussion." I had no idea why you were adding this point when no one in the current discussion was making it. Nor have I seen anyone make it but I also do not use the cesspool of social media.

Koplow Olympic Gold and Silver dice followed by Chessex Speckled Water or Chessex Speckled Cobalt dice.

Nope. No one is making this argument. People have argued that it is fine have inherently evil species but no one has argued the point you just made. D&D continues to have inherently evil species. The only change they made was Orc and that was because they decided to make Orc a playable species...

I go back to what someone earlier said that this is an issue because Orc is a player species. I do not think it should be a core player species. I felt the same about the half-orc. I do not see folks arguing about goblins, gnolls, kobolds, etc in the same way that they are making the arguments...

I like it when D&D is customizable in terms of allowing multiple different play styles and flavors of fantasy games. I would have much prefer that 5.5 made things like feats and weapon masteries optional rules like feats were in 5.0.

Sure, but this is ENWorld and part of this discussion here and in the other thread has been about culture. If the dominant culture gets pushed to RAW and WOTC sets expectations that PHB races are the default and should be RAW, then there is an active push to setting default assumptions at all...

The issue could be easily solved by a strong push from WOTC to argue that the game is a toolset and that options are options but that does not benefit them as much as the implication that you need to immerse yourself in our ecosystem. I really do not care as long as I am left alone to run the...

Except that once it is the default assumption, you will have people arguing that you must allow the default assumption. We have had multiple recent threads where people argued that a DM should not restrict PHB races. They argued that PHB default was the expectation and that a DM must allow it...

Over 3 decades of D&D and I have never seen any group hunt anything just because it is evil. The conflict has always been “we have to stop the evil actions of the things attacking etc.” Going out and hunting creatures just to kill is evil which I never allow in my games and I’d walk out of a...

I am re-reading the Robotech novels, followed by Wheel of Time.

Right. Or they just made changes to differentiate their newer content/systems and people did not care because that is how it always was or they never engaged with the content. I do not care, personally. I hate the species term and would have preferred ancestry or lineage or heritage because it...

That is just another selection bias. You assume they did market research before they made this decision. They could have easily just decided to placate the loudest online voices under the assumption that the majority just do not care or just do what they want anyway. The designers may also have...