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The Sword Coast area is huge, and there have been dozens of novels set there over the years. Very few of those novels are primarily set specifically in the small chunk of it covered in Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak. I'm going to assume that's the area you're primarily...

The price on those book tabs seems less gougey when you consider there are 168 tabs for the PHB and 92 tabs for the MM and DMG. But then—after 30 tabs or so, each additional tab actually reduces functionality for something like this. I guess the idea must be that different people consult...

I knew someone would have beaten me to it! "Glacier Season" is where it's at. Fantastic 3e adventure. (If you run it, you might want to rename the "Talisman of White Rage" artifact though...)

I'm still buying all the WotC 5e books—even the ones I'll never use much, such as the MTG settings. And since WotC's output has increased since the early 5e years, I'm buying more WotC than before. But I'm really buying a lot more 3rd party material than I used to, especially from DMs Guild...

4e FR does have its fans, but it certainly wasn't popular compared to the 1e–3.5e version of FR. But that gets to the difficulty with your ice cream analogy. WotC went about building 5e very deliberately in response to what they believed D&D fans (including the ones they had lost as active...

I doubt it's a legal issue; rather, it's most likely a branding policy. Leaving the corners untouched (or nearly so) makes a Monopoly board instantly recognizable for what it is no matter which of the hundreds (literally hundreds, over the years) of IP-themed Monopoly variant boards you're...

"Yoo-ess-ee-enn." I know people who use it in spoken American English. To me it falls into the same category as people who try to pronounce "folks" with an extra bit of sibilance on the end to make it clear they're saying "folx," not "folks." Yes, I have heard this too in spoken American...

Verbal dyspraxia absolutely can affect word choice. There are several kinds of dyspraxia, ranging from stuttering to the inability to “retrieve” a word to the substitution of one word for another, as in the example I gave from an interview with Lackey. It’s primarily the “error: file not found”...

Two things matter when a social taboo is violated: (1) intentions, and (2) what the speaker does after the slip-up. Unfortunately, increasingly it seems to me that in many cases, and especially by organizations and institutions with the power and responsibility to respond to such incidents...

When two very similar words (in this case, two different constructions of the same word) have the same denotation but near-opposite connotations, it's inevitable that one will sometimes be used when the other is intended, because of the way human brains process and produce language. This...

This next Cronenberg's gonna be a tough one for me—I think everything in your tiers 1 & 2 is a truly great film and he is one of the greatest living film directors (maybe somewhere around #25 for me, but it's a very crowded list). On the other hand I find extreme body horror unwatchable because...

I clicked the link and looked at all the pics and watched all the videos. There's no doubt in my mind that it adds up to a clear picture of a very troubled and hateful individual, and that shining light upon this is on balance a good thing to do. What I want to speak to is the discussion about...

Not sure exactly what you mean by this—do you mean your guess is that the CLB preconstructed Commander Decks will include reprinted cards from other MTG sets, but those cards will have new art (and perhaps new titles and flavor text) to fit the Forgotten Realms? If so, I really hope you're...

And now he has updated MM Expanded 1 with art of the same level of quality (and will soon do the same with vol. 2). I only wish I hadn't already invested in hard copies of the original versions of 1 and 2, because it's difficult to justify repurchasing them at the DM's Guild's ludicrous...

My favorite third-party monster books are the three (so far) Monster Manual Expanded volumes available from the DM's Guild. The monsters in them mostly fall into two categories: updates of "official" TSR and WotC monsters from prior editions, and variations on the various monsters already...

WotC and its spokespeople do this a lot, right down to putting “A D&D Product” on the front cover of some of their books. I too find it off-putting. The glimpses provided to the general public into the company’s internal corporate culture make it seem a lot more MBA-ish than any other tabletop...

WizKids recently jacked up the prices on all their D&D minis. Like, way, way up—for many of the products the price points have nearly doubled in the past year.

The question is: will the battle game just be its own thing, with its own mechanics not capable of being integrated (at least not cleanly) into the RPG—like the existing (terrible) "Adventure System" games from WizKids and (apparently) also the Onslaught game... ...or have they finally figured...

Saltmarsh is the only alt-cover I didn't purchase. There are a few others where I slightly prefer the regular cover (Xanathar's, Mordenkainen's, Tasha's), but I bought the limited ones anyway just for their distinctiveness. With Saltmarsh I just couldn't bring myself to buy it. It's terrible...

Looks like darjr beat me to the punch—sorry for the unnecessary second thread, everyone.