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I appreciate the rundown. How many rares will be in the set? And are there multiple rarities within the rare category? (Back in the day, many games had "R2" and "R3" and so on.) And how many rares do I get in a set booster box? I dislike foil cards, but these are apparently more common in...

I find I don't enjoy online play of much of anything other than RPGs these days. I've heard the Arena implementation is great, though. Right now I plan to buy some physical products for collecting and for kitchen table play with D&D-loving friends: the four Commander decks and . . . what? I...

I've only ever played kitchen table MTG, haven't played the game in many years, currently own no MTG cards, and (ever since a brief stint working in a game store years ago, interacting on a daily basis with many different customers, the worst-behaved of whom were invariably there to play MTG) I...

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Right. But nonetheless WotC has chosen 1492 as the canon date for Descent. Apparently the video game Baldur's Gate III—which references the events of Descent as having occurred earlier in the same year—is set in 1492. Makes no sense, but that's that.

"Other": PCs should never die in an event over which the player had no control whatsoever. But no player ever has absolute control over any game event capable of killing anyone, whether themselves or another character. (The quasi-exception would be killing someone who does not resist, e.g. a...

You're right in spirit, I think—they're treating 5e as "the" D&D and downplaying the edition number—but it's not precisely true that they exile the term to the credits. The words "fifth edition" do appear on the back cover of every book they've released so far.

That’s possible, but the rumors from a while back included details about specific contributors (Deborah Ann Woll, for one) who didn’t show up in CM. Maybe the rumors were wrong, or maybe those authors’ contributions were cut, but I’ve been assuming these were two separate products, perhaps in...

Woah—five more products plus two additional surprises? That's quite a lot for one year. Definitely an increased output, as promised. EDIT: I think I misread; it's five products total (including Candlekeep and Ravenloft), not five more. Still an increase, but not as huge of one as I initially...

I suspect that if we see a July release for D&D this year, it’s going to be Forgotten Realms themed in one way or another and designed as a tie-in to the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set of Magic cards, which will be released on July 16.

Not currently playing anything other than D&D 5e, but looking for a game of The Dark Eye.

The structure of this narrative is pure Mike Mignola, right down to the captioned portrait that ends the tale. Brilliant stuff.

I think we can be sure of one thing: if this movie's screenwriters and director want there to be a volcano in Icewind Dale—or in the Sword Mountains, or in Mount Waterdeep, or erupting in the middle of Farmers' Road in Daggerford—then there will be a volcano in that place.

I'm looking forward to this. Is it still on track to be released today?

The Threat series is a tough one for me to evaluate overall. I agree that the story collection is one of the best such volumes they published, because of its focus. I think WotC must have agreed, because that becomes the template for the few remaining story collections before they stopped...

I have a pet theory about this trilogy (based really on nothing more than a hunch and some tea-leaf reading), that it’s going to climax with [definite spoiler for several 5e hardcover adventure paths] so that [spoiler for the upcoming Drizzt novel trilogy if my theory is correct, in other words...

You're right. Reading it over, I think that wasn't a fair characterization for me to make. I retract that. Here's a better version of what I mean: saying "I do not use premade adventures, and I am not familiar with building 'conventional' D&D adventures. I fully expected that my adventure would...

My five cents on the Book of Cylinders kerfluffle, for what they're worth: 1. Neither side looks good here, at all. 2. POCGamer admits "I do not use premade adventures, and I am not familiar with building 'conventional' D&D adventures. I fully expected that my adventure would be edited and...

I mostly agree with this—if the published adventure is well organized. Right now I'm running Princes of the Apocalypse and that thing is an underrated adventure path but a total mess, organization-wise. Unless I had a very good memory and/or reread a great deal of the book between every play...

I think your breakdown is likely correct. I'd tweak just one thing. Here's what I am anticipating as the new baseline: 1 adv. anthology 1 full adventure path/campaign story 1 setting 1 splat / monster / IP book 1 box set and an additional "floater" slot that is usually either a 2nd setting or...