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I used to be Team Battlemat for the longest time until I got access to a really big touch screen where we play and (a VTT as simple as) Owlbear Rodeo. I really appreciate not having to prep and transport minis and the players like the screen better as they can clearly see what is going on...

I tend to be skeptical of stretch goals because what seems to happen is either (1) the publisher already has that stuff done and is holding out to incite more FOMO (In which case are they just going to delete all that stuff? No, they'll put it in the next expansion I'll be paying for) or (2)...

You must realize every detail of your world before you even begin play. (Related: your players will love hearing your fifteen hour exposition of every detail of your campaign world, from creation myths to the present day)

I have said about NFTs before it's the "we all pretend this is money" of crypto with the money laundering potential of the art world.

My preferred setting is "Sword Coast, kinda" because I've internalized so much of it between novels, video games and the like. If they would do a "points of light" book like Nentir Vale I'd probably use that a lot but I don't want to hunt down a bunch of impossible to find 4e hardcovers. (I...

You'd think NFT bros would be used to "lol, NFTs are garbage" articles by now

I can't get all that excited about bringing back old settings as their implementation up to now has been...less than stellar. I am getting tired of the "half setting guide, half adventure, not particularly great at either" books we've seem at this point.

Yeah, I'm not really getting Witcher as an "archetype" either. If you make it generic enough to be "monster hunter," well, isn't literally every class a "monster hunter?" (I also am not sure how you can say artificer is a missing archetype when there's been one in every edition since 2nd...

1) Batman 66 2) The LEGO Batman Movie 3) That's it

I'm excited for this (although I'm with everyone else in wishing they had started with Rise of the Runelords first) - hopefully this will be the start of a trend.

I would say specifically the Sword Coast (my default campaign setting tends toward "Sword Coast then points of light as you go farther inward") because thanks to all the auxiliary media (books, video games, even the Lords of Waterdeep board game) I've internalized so much of it at this point. I...

Which 5e uses in the form of traits/ideals/bonds/flaws. A lot of people ignore it either by habit or because they think it's too difficult, but it's right there. Anecdotal, but while it seems to be style to say "kids these days, they all want to be anime superheroes" the newcomers I play with...

I would say that about a lot of 5e books IMO - they don't seem to know if they want to do a setting book or adventure, split the difference, and don't do that good a job on either.

What we know about The Upcoming Books - what we really know, as opposed to what a thousand Internet theorists say could be written on the back of an index card. That doesn't keep some people from worrying about a theoretical Sixth Edition That Will Come To Your House And Burn All Your Old Books...

Looking forward to seeing it!

I voted "Other" as in "rebalance all the classes and subclasses first, and then we'll talk." I liked 5E's original design aesthetic of broad classes with the ability to customize but I think they fell down when it came to making every class and subclass not suck. It got even worse as new...

B/X: Save or die rules. Race as class. No real rules for anything outside of combat. AD&D: Low level magic users, weapon type vs AC (did anyone use this?), level drain, poorly thought out saving throw names (this could apply for any pre v3 game - Fort/Will/Reflex is the best system they ever...

I said "rarely." One of my favorite things about 5e is that it doesn't have the Magic Shop On Every Corner of 3.5. In my world, no one remembers how to make magic items apart from consumables and some smaller items.