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Ironically, this is exactly the problem that the tariffs are (one part of) a strategy to resolve. The economic incentives to socialize the cost to the users/consumers and privatize the profits have been a perverse incentive (in the economic sense) has gutted our ability to make anything, and...

The only recent(ish) WotC book I own was printed in China. They USED to print in the US. It doesn't look like they do anymore. But I didn't check any other books, because I don't have any. Whatever printing of the 5e PHB that I have was printed in China, however. It is correct, because they can...

As an aside, on the Steve Jackson board games comment, I don't have my board games handy because I just relocated less than a year ago and that wasn't a priority to unbox. But I do have a bunch of gamebooks and other books. I checked the two 5e books that I have; an older PHB and a third party...

Glad I didn't have to be the one to say it first. The PR on this story is deeply irritating to me. These aren't dire wolves at all, they're just CRISPR enhanced wolves. Dire wolves are less closely related to wolves than literally any other of the wolf-line dogs. African painted dogs are closer...

Because fantasy as it was conceived in the late 60s and early 70s; Gygax's formative years on the genre, was not so strictly defined where science fictiony concepts weren't around presumed to be inappropriate in fantasy. The Displacer Beast comes from a space opera story where it was some kind...

Endgame. But I honestly probably like Dark Knight and Winter Soldier better. But, arguably, because they're not actually superhero movies, even though they have superhero characters. Same is kinda sorta true for Sky High, which I have to throw out there as a dark horse contender.

Yes, it's tedious. I hadn't played D&D per se since playing 3.5 back... oh, as recently as 2016, I think, until picking up 5e. It feels the same to me. Whatever differences there are are more annoying because I don't remember them correctly, because it's basically the same. The tediousness is...

No, you're wrong. Everyone who's referred to the Bookscan data has been upfront about the limitations of it. Everyone knows that FLGSs don't report to Bookscan. It's simply bookstores and Amazon. That said, it's still useful because you can compare Bookscan data for two different books in the...

I hear that a lot, and while I don't entirely disagree with it, at some level it feels like a handwavey "don't believe your lying eyes" excuse too. Those data points certainly aren't the whole story, but they're not cherry-picked lies and impossibilities, they're well documented facts that...

I meant the 2e splatbooks overall, not specifically the psionics ones. I never actually paid much attention to psionics until 3e.

That's not the only data point that they're referring to. Many of them don't even mention that at all.

Maybe, but publishing it as compatible with 4e would kill the project too, so it needs changes anyway.

I like the idea of psionics. I once ran a campaign in the 3e era that replaced magic with psionics. All spells that had supernatural abilities or any kind of spellcasting progression were disallowed, and you could use the EPH and CH options instead to get your supernatural f/x stuff. Although I...

Yeah, companies try all the time to make stuff like that happen. It doesn't seem to take. 5.5, other than here, seems to be what most people are calling it.

What else would he say? There's plenty of evidence that that take isn't odd at all, and it's kind of the darling topic of the DungeonTuber community right now. If the take's so odd, why are so many people making it? I'm not saying that I think that they're right; I honestly don't care enough...

If he did it as an unofficial product, now that he's retired, I'd consider picking it up. Dragonborn is in the SRD, and Io is from Greek mythology, and is also one of the moons of Jupiter. Sure, he'd probably use a different name or something. But he may have enough pull to get a dispensation...

Nothing wrong with it in theory; it's usually extremely poorly executed in actual practice.

I agree; privately, I think more people engage with the hobby by reading books more than anything else. Even people who are actively playing in at least one campaign probably spend more time reading books than they do playing. And many people aren't actively playing, or their games are sporadic...

Arguably, that's exactly what the real problem actually is, isn't it? Starting somewhere around 1977 and the AD&D rules, the game got too complex to actually describe without a style guide that read more like a textbook than anything else. And an overly long, tedious textbook at that. Gygax...

That seems a bit harsh to call out the OSR for that (and I say that as someone who doesn't identify as an OSRian) when the same would be true for any edition of D&D ever. What if you wanted Night of the Walking Dead in 3e? Heroes of Horror? What if you wanted it in 4e? 5e? I'm sure there's some...