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And it can't just be any old genre. It has to support serial storytelling with an ensemble party of protagonists, it has to have character attributes that can be gamified into stats and a method of character advancement and power progression, and unless you're branching off into an entirely...

Going with fantasy helps pluck off the people who are used to D&D and mostly happy with it, but just want some adjustments along one specific vector to be really content. Also... look, the pool of other genres is a little thin right now. Pulp Sword & Sorcery is well out of date. Classic space...

I'm not sure how viable that is as a growth strategy. For over a decade, video game companies went to great expense to launch a "World of Warcraft killer" that would supplant it at the top of the lucrative MMORPG market. Every single one of them failed. The Network Effect says that people aren't...

Well, that's just plain old hipster gatekeeping. Some people want the things they partake of to be limited to a small audience, because it lets them style themselves as different from the witless masses who just follow whatever's popular. These are the people who get upset when a band or author...

I think it depends partly on the personality type of the people involved, and depends partly on what they're coming to the table for. It's like the divide between introverts and extroverts, or early adopters versus the people who stick with what's familiar until it falls apart. Some people...

Simply put, but accurate. There's a thing called the Network Effect, where the appeal of good or service increases with the number of people already using it. When you pick a social media service, you want the one with a lot of users because that's where the people you want to talk to are. When...

IMO turning all Bonus Actions into Free Actions is going too far. As seems to be the prevailing sentiment of the thread. Maybe instead of converting all Bonus Actions, make a short list of the Bonus Actions you feel are specifically limiting and change those. It's a more controlled experiment...

Some people regard Background Features as concrete character abilities, the same as Class Features. Which... I have almost never seen them come up in play. They're narrow, they're situational, and very often they make no sense if you try to apply them broadly. I am not sorry to see them go in...

It's probably all a side effect of Vecna mucking with reality. Remember, they said the adventure doesn't start with the Wish summoning the PCs to Sigil. It starts with the PCs investigating Vecna cultists up to no good, and getting entangled with the God of Secret's domain somehow. That's why...

Subclasses. More substantial than 2e kits, less cumbersome than 3e prestige classes, they do an excellent job of allowing differentiation within a class. Well, mostly. Some classes give their subclasses very little to work with, and that turns me away from them. But on the whole, subclasses are...

Okay, fair, but Spelljammer is the proverbial exception that proves the rule. I don't think that book was anyone's ideal finished product. Something very clearly went wrong in its production, probably multiple somethings. And we're not going to find out until years down the line when dishing the...

I mean, you absolutely did. Just under a different pseudonym. But consider it D&D going with the flow of the current zeitgeist. Wicked and Maleficent made it cool to reframe your witch queen as a misunderstood anti-heroine done dirty. And while Tasha's rise hasn't gone so far as to erase...

Don't feel like improvement? I'm positively itching to play new PCs of classes I've played before in 5e, because these revised versions look like they directly address so many of the complaints I had while playing them. So maybe you read the UA material differently, or maybe you just played...

If there's minis, they've certainly got stats. You don't make minis of creatures that aren't going on the battlefield.

So I was right that it's the Wizards Three, it's just a new Wizards Three. Should have seen that coming.

It occurs to me that another way to look at this question is to say, "Exactly which book are we talking about?" So for a start, everything in the 2014 PHB/DMG/MM is replaced by the 2024 PHB/DMG/MM. Sometimes with something different, sometimes with exactly the same thing, but you always use the...

My alerts just lit up with an official statement from WotC on D&D Beyond about the cases of Amazon orders getting the pre-recall version of the product. Along with instructions for how to apply for a replacement deck of cards directly from WotC...

Here's my attitude: Anything with a clear replacement, you use the updated version. Anything without a clear replacement, you use what exists as long as there's not a clear conflict. Spells and magic items are easy to bring forward, subclasses a little harder, feats are kinda iffy because of how...

It's not true. There have been no statements or indications of it. All that's gone is the pre-written Backgrounds with lists of suggested Traits, Bonds, and Flaws. Nothing else has changed. Please don't accept misinformation that easily.

The biggest thing they're moving away from is pre-written Backgrounds with lists of suggested traits, bonds, and flaws. If you read the book closely, those were always supposed to be suggestions and not a restrictive list. But so many people treated it that way, in part because of those unique...