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It’s a bit of both. Or even more severaler organizations if you will.

Very simply: because it’s mine. If anything, it’s a concern if you aren’t valuing your own opinions the mostly highly. After all, only you can have your reason for them. Those that seem to be in agreement are really just the nearest Venn diagram overlap.

Ah, yes, I only meant to suggest doing it across something like 5E’s lifetime and not some madhouse mid-campaign mixups. It likely would have been better conveyed if I included the intended implication of [overall/campaign] variety’s sake rather than give the impression I thought the variety of...

This is more granular and understandable to me, thank you. Apologies if approaching midway through (not) working simply caused me to misunderstand earlier. Although, I’ll likely still find myself among the “enough”/good-as-a-spectrum side due to how I consider the game. I might personally...

I certainly don’t intend to, but maybe I was unspecific enough to be misleading anyway. Is it? If you yourself write out the first pairing and link an edition to a “rule-set” then how is changing out a set of rules and features within an edition so gravely different from changing edition? Does...

I suppose I am just finding your own definition to be conflicting with how you seem to be applying it here.

I repeated it aloud in my cubicle just to make sure (note: he didn’t). But yes. I don’t see playing separate sets of rulings over time as meaningfully different from playing separate games. Do you consider a group that might play different editions over time unbelievable as well? It doesn’t...

I may misunderstand what you mean with this, but I am struggling to reconcile it as an absolutism. If you believe “good” implies issueless and change inherently suggests the attempt to solve an issue, can any one user ever have more than one conception of good at any given instance? Can two...

It reads to me like your working backwards to confirm this for yourself. Does the separate existence of both official errata AND optional rules not suggest that there can be non-issues that some players choose to change regardless. Not to mention I feel as though you’ve somewhat sidelined the...

Is there not? There are certainly both pros and cons that come with having an already established brand and public opinion, but having an existing recognizability helps to draw more attention for whatever opinions may then form over its resurgence. It’s certainly a benefit over a brand starting...

The perception of “quality” is and will always be a subjectivist concept, whether applied to D&D or any number of analogues already presented here—fashion/accessories, food/beverages, music. This is why dialogues from an objectivist perspective never truly resolve. Popularity exists as an...

I like the design of A5E quite a bit! Alas, the uphill battle of getting certain players interested in mechanics that deviate from the design of the "The One True ©" can be a tough one.

This is good to hear, as I’ve only ever used DnDB for their standard content and haven’t needed any of the VTT-compatible features. Might have to mess with the homebrew options to see how easy it is to jump off some of the PHB races. Trying to get the Tiefling variants into a manageable table or...

I think this is the hurdle for WotC (and brewers, honestly) with a MotM-style revision of Half-Elf and Human. When the few strictly defined attributes that existed get shifted toward customizability then the pre-existing customizable attributes like Skill Versatility suddenly become even less...

This sounds a bit like the survival equivalent of Relentless Endurance, which doesn’t seem off brand. I suppose I was sneaking in the additional sentiment of wondering if they make the cut in an official revision at all, which I have seen pop up elsewhere. With a decreased focus on prescribed...

Perhaps I’ve misstated my intent. I’m not trying to suggest that the books are so mechanically varied that standard, RAW play is inhibited enough (or at all) to the point that gameplay somehow fails. But if we can see WotC’s design intent shifting and know that further updates are already in the...

With the official individual release of Monsters of the Multiverse upon us, the core design differences between the playable race reprints and the PHB races are abundant and apparent. MotM seems like a good stopgap and indication of what may be coming with the 2024 update. However, for those...

I’ve been stuck theorizing (again) about the divergence discussed earlier regarding even number array options and potential setups using only ability score modifiers. Obviously I know this doesn’t fit your style preference, but I was trying to imagine how a system like that might keep rolling as...

I’m understand this feeling, but it’s amusing how differently my own outlook tends to fall. I think one of D&D’s biggest strengths is its extensibility and love looking toward its mechanics as a way to better enable that. I’m on board with a default setting spotlight since it draws in players...

I've been torn for a while between not liking races that begin with fly speed (excluding Aarakocra in my own setting) and wanting an official Fairy option because I enjoy all things Fey flavored. Still haven't settled on my favored way to adjust for it. 😔 If it doesn't work out, another option...