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I would be willing to bet that the actual sales are at least double what is shown here, probably much higher.

Yes. If something doesn't receive at least 70% approval they will keep iterating until they find something that does. That is their playtest process. They have been doing it that way for over a decade, and it seem to work really well for them. It was the playtest process they used when first...

Why is that what you want is actual improvement, but what the overwhelming majority of players want is just valuing continuity? Just because your prefer something doesn't mean it is actually an improvement for the majority of players. If you want to say that you prefer something, just say...

I am sorry, I am having a hard time parsing what you are trying to say here. Edit: I reread your post several times now, and I see what you were trying to say now. A couple of commas would have made your post much more readable.

But if only 20% percent of people are unhappy with the original alternative, that is a majority. The designs are not looking at each element in a vacuum. They are comparing satisfaction against the previous version.

It would be like that if the majority of people loved to eat botulism and E.coli, and had no ill effects from it. A better example would be if you didn't like onions and your food came with onions. Just because you don't like something that lots of other people like, it doesn't make it toxic...

Its not so much that the designers think that Monks are overturned, as that the designers expect that players will have more encounters and take more short rest per day than many actually do. If a monk gets 3 short rests in a day they are actually pretty powerful. Monks (and short rest...

I agree with this, but I would add that it needs to be in the Players Handbook. I think the disparity between long/short rest classes based on the number of encounters per day is probably the biggest problem in 5e. The different short rest lengths needs to be a core part of the rules, not...

All of the discussions on profit here also leave out one major source of revenue. Merchandising. Hasbro is a toy company. They make toys. There is a whole line of toys, t-shirt, and knick-knacks, and they seem to be selling well. I usually don't buy movie merchandise, but I love my...

D&D HAT's problem wasn't that it was just a minority who liked it. It overwhelmingly got positive reviews from both critics and viewers. Over 90% positive reviews is really good. It's not that people didn't like it, its that people didn't see it (in theaters). It's not like D&D was well...

4e biggest problem was always its presentation, nots actually anything to do with its rules. 4e actually was heavily influenced by video games, not some much by actual gameplay, but in how it presented the games rules. The 4e books were designed as reference books, and the designers focused on...

The actual core rules for both are remarkably similar. Take 4e and swap attacks against Fort, Reflex, and Will with attribute saves, drop the +1/2 level bonus for every d20 roll, and swap lots of small bonuses for advantage, and you are already most of the way to the 5e core rule. Obviously...

The nicotine was from Victorian bug spray. Once you get a mummy out of the desert the bugs love to eat them. Museum curator used to have to douse them in insecticides to stop the bugs from eating.

The Necro prefix can mean corpse, but it doesn't only mean corpse. It can also mean death or rot and decay. The word originally comes from ancient Greek, where Nekros means corpse. However over thousands of years the word has been used by hundreds of different languages in subtlety different...

I understand it is a trope. It is a really misogynistic trope. It doesn't make it better to use because "everyone uses it". I'm sorry, but "its just a trope" is an excuse for saying misogynistic thing. You could have easily just referred to DM favoritism with out using a hateful trope, that...

Ah yes, the Elizabethan English and the ancient Greeks were massively condescending and misogynistic towards women, so we have no choice but to be as well. There is no possible way to hold ourselves to a higher standard than people in the past. Both the ancient Greeks and the Elizabethans...

That's not bad, but I would limit to unarmed strikes, not all melee attacks. Not for any real power reason, mostly just for flavor. I also really like the idea of integrating the unarmed strikes with the mastery system. It just seems cleaner to me.

The thing is rangers don't get the conjure spells until high level, and they can only cast a couple a day. I want them to be Awesome! I want them to do at least as much damage as a fire, and not hit allies. When a ranger drops a conjure spell it should be a big deal. I want them to do as much...

This is not a new edition of the game, it is just a revision. Tasha's ranger actually rates pretty high. Why shouldn't they reuse large parts from Tasha's. They are not just making changes just for change sake. They highly value backwards compatibility. They have been iterating on the ranger...

Something I have been looking at is to give monks a mastery on unarmed strike that would allow the monk to not provoke opportunity attacks from a target they hit that round. It would give monks the mobility they need to disengage from combat, and it would better integrate unarmed strikes with...