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Yeah, I think Darjr's right about 1 & 3, but the monkey wrench is 2, and you're spot-on about how that goes down. Shareholders these days seem like they'd rather see the whole thing crash an burn on an attempt to rocket skyward than to see it slowly and safely raise.

I think you'll find that I didn't say anything that concrete, but okay. Yeah, again. That's where we differ. You think that a 5-year plan should be discounted as meaningless (and therefore should be defined as "not being followed" if it's flexible. I think that is simply what a 5-year plan...

This is the actual point that you and I are disagreeing on, and that's fine. We can disagree. I just don't think that a 5 year plan is nonsense just because it has room to change and develop and adjust and morph. As long as it still follows some sense of the "broad strokes", it's still an...

I guess it depends on what you think of as "following a 5-year plan". No plan is 100% set-in-stone. That would be foolish. But you were arguing that a plan that looked like "Book A. Book B. Book C." was too much of a plan. (Or at least it seemed so). I would assume that the plan would have a...

I'm not sure why you doubt it, when they specifically said that they do. Sure, I agree that there will have to be some room for shuffling, or space to cram in a surprise or two, but they've always worked on books approximately two years out. I'd fully expect 2026's books to be pretty far along...

Yes. My earlier suggestion was to make more of those. For example, I think Phandelver & Below would have been FAR more successful (both critically and financially) if they'd used - some - of the material from the Essentials Set and some new stuff to flesh out the map with more side-quests and...

Isn't it interesting how Pathfinder 1 would have made a better D&D 4e and 4e might have made a better Pathfinder (as in a cool alternative to D&D).

I never suggested a shorter product. I suggested using the space for things other than level-grind to make it go from 1-12 or 15. What I'm talking about is sort of what they attempted to do with Waterdeep Dragon Heist. You might argue that that book wasn't very well received, but I think we all...

It's deeper than that though. As a society we have this weird twisted logic that jobs that have, real, true, intrinsic value should be "their own reward" and should be paid terribly. So we have Nurses, Teachers, Cleaners, Researchers, Artists, and Midwives generally getting paid poorly, while...

I don't think that I agree. I mean, yes, they made the adventures shorter, but they weren't more "meaty". They were shorter to make room for Setting stuff. And the format seemed to me to mostly be a way to make more money off of a smaller page count. They weren't as terrible as their reputation...

Passion is definitely less important than Vision. People can be passionate but not have a clear, important, or skilled vision. Conversely, someone can not particularly care about a project beyond it being their job to do so, but have a good eye for what will make a good product. It's probably...

I don't think art CAN die. Artists have a need to produce art. ... It can, however, be cut out of having any financial rewards. The "starving artist" has always been a thing (actually, it probably wasn't in hunter-gatherer societies, where they were often valued) but we don't really want to...

I mostly have two problems with AI: 1) Corpos going to use it to "cut costs", therefore "not pay real humans", and "make the rich richer" (at the expense of others). 2) Most of it is hot garbage. Like, really really bad. If AI were used as a tool by competent, paid humans, that produced...

I honestly think that I'd be okay with James Wyatt and Greg Bilsand being the new Perkins & Crawford. I mean, we'll see what we get, but I can't imagine how it could be particularly diminished by this change, as much as I like P&C. With the next 5 years being preplanned, it will come down to...

I still feel that they should make APs smaller in scope (less 12-15 levels of advancement more 4-6 levels of advancement) and flesh them out deeper. More "meat" (described NPCs, art, maps, monsters), and more "bones" (alternate paths to take, sidequests and subplots). Less "earth-shattering"...

They're pretty cute, but they ain't Dire Wolves.

It's a slight tangent from the OP, but 4e also had Vampire and Werewolves as classes.

Kid definitely needs help, and as much as he might not want it right now, he's much more likely to get it after this. I think Robbie was wrong to yell at McKay over it. He can disagree with her approach all he likes, but it wasn't unreasonable.

Ooh. I love the idea of someone being horrible at being a monster. "WHOOPS! I tried to do something mean, but it turned out for the best!"

Sure. I decided to just move forward without asking for any skill checks for either group (both have potential hazards to deal with). We can just assume that Donnell and Doc got caught up with something that slowed their progress. Maybe rock-climbing sideways while holding a person who is...