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Unfortunately, if you teach a man to fish, they're going to stop buying your fish... and WotC needs people to buy their fish or their dead in the water.

Luckily for you, not even the designers plan for the PCs to have magic items. All the math in the DM's Guide and the Monster Manual are done magic item free. Every class except for the Barbarian and Rogue have access to some spells. However, these are only found in specific subclasses, so you...

An illusionist. Playing with players minds and expectations can be more fun than actually throwing the real monster at them. "He would never throw a dragon that big at us!" "Would he?" Barring that, oozes are fun when characters start to get trapped in them, ghosts are terrifying just on...

This is exactly right. D&D is a blip to Hasbro, almost not even worth mentioning, so the fact that they're getting as much attention as they are from the press is rather astounding. One Transformers movie has likely made all that D&D has ever made in history.

Also, I have to encourage everyone to actually read the entire article. The quotes from Morrus are taken somewhat out of context, and the full article gives a much better feel for what he's talking about.

I was talking about the APs to be honest. There's tons of new monsters in those, PotA is basically a new setting, and they've given a bunch of expansion stuff for players out for free already. No, but you do need permission to talk about that stuff. Do you honestly think that everyone at WotC...

What I'm hearing is, content that is not what I want isn't content, just redundant stuff to drain your money. I can't argue with this, because it's an opinion that is twisting the word "content" into something contextualized purely for yourself. Please provide the quote saying that they will...

Isn't this what they're already doing? PotA comes with twenty pages of references of where to put the adventure in other campaign settings. Yes, Tyranny of Dragons was pretty much Faerun exclusive, but they've said that the game itself is setting agnostic. I compare a lot of this stuff to...

To be honest, I'm fairly certain the amount of people that buy adventures far exceeds that of those that buy stuff like assortment sheets and books of single use dungeons.

They have released 7 products in 10 months. Frog God games has released an additional 4 books for it. That's over a book a month, and these aren't counting the small guides like the Spell Cards, the DM's Screen, the free Players supplements, the free basic rules supplements, etc. We haven't even...

I'm curious, where are you getting your sales information from? I highly doubt Monte Cook games is doing anywhere in the realm of how well 5E is doing.

How do you make a sustainable business model off of that? How do you know what stuff to make for people? They could make campaign settings, but if you already make your own that's useless. Not to mention they already have all of the campaign settings online in PDF format. Then what about a whole...

If D&D 5E is a stillbirth, what are all of the other RPGs?

I think a lot of people had problems with Tyranny partially because it was sloppy and partially because a lot of the fun of D and D is player agency. Tyranny, from its encounters to the campaign itself, robbed players of any agency they had. It wasn't just a railroad, heck, Princes is a railroad...

In TotM, 25 feet and 20 feet are good measures of granular speed. So, how fast is this guy getting away? Slightly faster than you, since he has a speed of 25ft and you have a speed of 20ft. Yeah, you could use "Slowest, slower, slow, average, fast, faster, fastest" but now you've lost the people...

Indeed, she would be squished between tissues with no room to move. There isn't a whole lot of just empty space inside of a body no matter where you are, there's almost always something filling that space, whether its tissue, fluid, muscle, fat, etc. Blindness totally makes sense to me, in the...

So, barring the fact that you can get PotA for $35 online, and the adventure is 256 pages long... divide that by the Phandelver adventure... PotA is roughly four times the size of Phandelver. So you would rather spend $80 for an equal amount of adventure if they were four separate ones?

I can't believe you think 5E is fantastic. It is, obviously, the greatest thing to ever happen in the history of RPG, nay, the entire world! Be prepared for me to completely derail this thread with a 20 page dissertation in pursuit of proving you wrong! In all seriousness, great post. I think...

The vagueness is on purpose. The characters are supposed to interact with the four cults. The Elder Elemental Eye is supposed to be this weird, ethereal being that not even the cultists really know much about. It's really the four princes that matter, and the EEE is more flavor than anything. I...

Are there truly any adventures out there that aren't "railroad" by your estimation then? Kingmaker maybe? Because PotA allows a lot of player agency, but it will always lead to something towards the main story, so by your definition, the only way that an adventure can be sandbox is if the DM...