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I don't know - that's how I read it. It read to me like the complaint of someone looking at the interface and not finding an obvious way to identify what free stuff they had out there. And they're right because there isn't an easy way to see what you own in the DDB interface and never has been...

The Sources tab doesn't say what you own. So you have to click on things to see if it's something you claimed or not. Or you have to go into your account and have a separate tab open to see it. I'm sure for folks who use DDB for their games it's all fine. But for folks who don't and only use it...

I like how Level Up does it - where the spell list for each class comes at the end of the class and where it includes both the name of the spell and a one line description of the spell. With the full spell write-ups coming off in their own section closer to the end of the book. Watching how my...

For 5e it doesn't matter so much. For 4e having all the monster stats in place is important because the combats are generally with a group of different creatures. Flipping around multiple places in the MM is a pain. In 5e encounter design in published works tends to favor homogenous groups more...

I will say that every one of those companies are on the shelves at my local game store along with other companies that don't rank in the top 10 and they don't carry any Goodman Games stuff that I've seen. And they carry some far more niche stuff than the other stores in town.

There's that. And as it says in the article there's a new edition coming so there may be folks who are holding off replacing books they have that are falling apart or buying in at all until the new edition comes out. But there's also the fact that a large part of the reason that D&D exploded...

But what if you aren't the audience for it? The second printing of the books weren't really for people who already owned the books. There were no rule changes - it was all art and layout changes and the inclusion of some errata that you could also find in other places. Which is why I say if it...

Eh - if it was an attempt at a cash grab it certainly didn't feel like it would have been a successful one. The look and design on the second printing of the 2e books didn't really sell them as must haves and there wasn't really a reason to get them beyond that. I guess if you think that...

It also works if you just decide that elves are creatures of magic, biological evolution does not apply to them, and the children of the first generation were just born with their new environment impressed on them. Especially when the source of all of it is a curse being imposed on them by...

I wouldn't discount the effect of Actual Plays on the hobby. Podcasts had been doing APs since sometime in the late 00's (Acquisitions Inc was in, like, 2008 I think? I don't know if there were earlier ones) and the switch from 4e to 5e made it easier to do podcasting around a game since it was...

I mean that's the Essentials Kit basically. Except for the DM sidebars. I think the Essentials Kit is one of the most useful products they've put out for 5e and I'd be happy to see them do more like it. If I could get a similar product for, say, Planescape or Spelljammer I'd be very happy.

This is why for my personal playstyle I actually prefer having that kind of "currency" only in the hands of the players. As a GM I'm used to being able to set difficulties and throw complications at the group based on what the narrative needs and if I need to remember to spend points along with...

My maximum crunch is around D&D 4e. Though even there I'd prefer to see a streamlined version where some of the fiddlier less-consequential bits (like Feats) are removed. That's my upper bound these days, and even there I'm not sure I'm up to learning a brand new game at that level of crunch...

Based on when Williams got her undergrad degree ('94) she's about the same age as me. My sister-in-law who is younger than I am couldn't join any D&D groups when she was 12-13 because none of the guys her age who had groups were willing to let a girl join. And her own friends weren't interested...

Yes and it's great and I'm mad that we're not getting a second season.

The cartoon and the Ghostbusters RPG always felt like they were leaning into the same story ideas. Pick up the idea of running a Ghostbusters business where you go after a monster of the week every session and hijinks ensue. It's the natural way to go from the first movie's setup into an ongoing...

Let's see - it covers my players' Human Fighter and Half-Elf Warlock. It's missing their Changeling Bard, Kenku Druid, Elf Sorcerer, and Gnome Ranger. So 2 out of 6. (Though I'm not terribly surprised that this particular group is an outlier.).

You now have me wanting to break out Rifts for my group just to see what my one player who has the most extreme form of analysis paralysis does when presented with the core book. (I would never do this to him. The class system in Rifts may or may not cause him grief but oh my god I wouldn't...

No - I'm talking about what the current research is. People are focusing on making systems like ChatGPT, Dall-E, etc. better at what they do. There is almost no research at all - and almost no money being thrown at - trying to build systems of the kind you're talking about. The money and...

I know what teleological means. I mean you're not using "intent" in the way the folks in the field mean when they are discussing non-trivial examples of it. Yes - a thermostat can be used as an example of an "agent" and it is used in textbooks as a classic example of agent-based AI. But if...