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Wearing my DM hat, Overall, I like it, I think that the classes raise the floor over 2014 but not the ceiling but I have not had the opportunity to see it in play yet. So, to an extent I have to reserve judgement on that. It is cleaner and clearer to read, though I only have the D&DBeyond...

Enough people to keep this going for 23 pages. There is a strong case to be made that nothing he is reported to have said warrants this kind of attention but then a substantial chunk of the thread is a rehash of the ethics of AI.

Probably be better to let MS or someone else do the legwork and licence out the tech then.

I think we are at or close to peak AI hype, Whether the technology lives up to it is another matter but I also think that there is currently a lot of money at stake and share prices at stake. Money costs are rising (and possible future tariff wars is likely to drive up inflation) and a lot of...

Almost certainty not, but we got it anyway.

This is the crux of the matter, Mr Cocks has make a number of statements that do not amount to a hill of means. They commit him to nothing. It is mostly others taking the worst possible readings of these words that is creating the fear. Most of his statements amount to we're looking into the...

If Sigil is a 3d sandbox I would expect something closer to Tabletop Simulator then something that could act as a generic physics engine.

I agree with you, she is not a bad player but some times what players want and expect and what a DM wants and expects do not match. I think I could be quite happy running a game for your wife and the more casual players on your group. I am pretty sure that you cannot get the game you have said...

That is at least a large part the job of CEO's at the public corporate level. They do other stuff also but keeping the owner(s)/investors happy is a big part. That is not to say that this is not on somebodies cards but there is no indication of that here. From what I have seen, some stores on...

Goldman Sachs is not following Cocks anywhere, they are hosting a thing for investors and CEOs and when investors and Sachs says "Dance " CEOs dance, it is part of the job in public trade companies. He is not really committing to anything: "We use it internally" could mean anything from we are...

If you want to make official adventures less of a cake walk: My advice, do not make every fight harder but when you are preparing (reading through) the adventure, pick out the fights that you think could be interesting and amp them up. Use milestone levelling and pre- note where in the adventure...

Personally, I would not have allowed non int spells count as EK spells under the old rules but it your table allowed it in the old rules why not allow it in the new version? My view in the old version would be that is the EK has those spells and they are cast using the EK spell casting stat...

My first reaction to this is that an EK is an Int spellcaster and so an EK features will not work on spells cast with a non Int stat irrespective of where they come from. Otherwise, one is going to get some weird interactions if multiclassed as a Cha caster class. My second reaction is: I would...

I would say yes, why make life difficult for yourself, this is a high level character and these are not gamebreaking.

Yes, and maybe. My thoughts, I would allow any spell they can cast with a slot with their casting stat to qualify as a wizard spell for the purposes of this. It is not a big deal and saves on bookkeeping. I agree with you on upcasting.

First off, having read a lot of these threads by you I am not sure that you can get the experience you crave out of DMing rpgs with the average group, or at all, except with some exceptional groups. You are not going to get it with this group in particular so do not make the preparation...

I think it is improved a lot but I have not played it yet. The book looks like it is far easier to use. All the stuff one would expect to be together is together and the class information is complete. The glossary seems useful but that would depend on experience on actual use. The classes have...

I would let it sit for a while.

This is pretty much the same with my primary group. I run mostly WotC AP's out of the box, and they seem quite happy. I would like more rp and engagement, but I do find I need to take regular DM breaks.

Things I found useful for APs are: milestone levelling and if the days combat kills about 15+% of a faction and the party leaves to rest, in a location the rest run away, unless there is a very compelling reason for them to stay. This eliminates a lot of the boring fights; I also have nearby...