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Honestly, I'm just sticking to the "it's lazy game design to remove options and then tell people to just describe your character differently instead" option. I don't think social justice or discrimination really plays into it because, as we've seen in this very thread, you can make arguments...

I mean, one could argue that taking away options is technically game design. It's how OSR games are designed, at least in part. The difference is that those games have a firm, gameplay centric goal in taking those steps. So many of WotC's decisions feel more like they're coming from a desire...

What is WotC's job as a game designer if not to design how the game is to be played? Give a quick "alternative rule" sidebar if they wish, but "just describe your character however you want" isn't game design when they had rules that interacted with the game mechanically for decades previous.

Why are you trying to frame the latter as something that gaming groups are finally able to do thanks to WotC's Revelation? In AD&D, I once had a Saiyan character that fused with a human-turned-half dragon after being merged with parts of his dragon scale armor during a resurrection attempt by...

Oh, I'm definitely not going to claim they're racist (and to be fair, I don't think most people bringing this up are either). They're just horrible at messaging and probably should leave the majority of "the fight" as it were in the hands of the community and focus on game mechanics. WotC...

I have something of an idea for that. A mix of ideas, really. Some people in the thread have floated the idea of racial features via feats (which isn't, in itself, a new idea). I think it would be interesting to have feats only available to half races. And if we were to use a system similar...

If they wanted to round off effectiveness spikes, I wish they'd done it at the resolution mechanic primarily. Having a single die roll and the swinginess that creates still gives heavy incentive to try to "beat" the dice by stacking as many bonuses as you can, and at least in 3.5E, that was...

So, from the text as written, it sounds like if you have specialization in both punching and the cestus, you get to apply the bonuses for only one of them each round, but you can choose which one round to round. It's honestly not very well written, but to me, it reads that the tradeoff is that...

Contrariwise, when the party starts out as a band of nobodies and then is capable of taking on a small dragon in the span of a couple of months in game, it sucks all my suspension of disbelief right out. So if you're leveling ever couple of sessions (as a lot of WotC campaigns do), either your...

So what I would do is this: first and foremost, I'd have certain actions require to be executed under stealth. Sneak attack is a big one, but there are plenty of others one could think of, and I could even see a "rulings not rules" approach to it in some cases. "Sure, you can do that, but...

Honestly one of the big positives of the older editions in my opinion. Newer D&D campaigns feel like their on fast forward to me.

100% disagree. That would be the worst thing they could do. Even worse than nothing, really, because as long as they haven't done anything, they still might do something else. If they just published the 4E SRD as is under CC-BY, it's almost certain that's all you're getting ever. Better not...

Okay, so first thing I would do is, as you said, compile the rules from every previous edition, make a Legacy of D&D collection, and release it under Creative Commons. I believe in preservation, and so this would be a pretty big priority of mine. My next plan would be to hire a number of...

You do realize that someone already pointed out that your interpretation of that quote is 100% the opposite of what the text actually says, right? If not, I'll point it out to you again: said person was in one comment claiming that diversity in art wasn't needed (citing old editions that were...

Good to see that WotC is getting back on board with "rulings, not rules."

I kind of think WotC could do well by making a Patreon-esque counterpart to DM's Guild. Let authors run accounts where they can put out their own UA-ish releases, small mini-adventures, etc, and artists can do the same for their own releases, all with WotC taking a small cut like Patreon does...

Let's not overlook that you've also passed the 500 backer mark. You've officially sold more copies of your book than Rokka no Yuusha's Blu Ray sales.

Less resurrection than evolution (of something that's dead), but fully mechanics free setting books. Get some people to go through the 2E stuff until they get why it is that older fans keep saying they miss that edition's settings, and make a definitive "this is this setting" collection that is...

I honestly didn't think they would either. I just decided the brand wasn't worth sticking with if they didn't. I'm definitely glad they saw reason.

I'll wait to see the final result to be sure, but I think that was actually a compromise in their eyes. It gives us what we wanted (an irrevocable license to use at least one SRD) without actually admitting that the original OGL couldn't be revoked or deauthorized.