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I think you should honestly tell them that you get no joy or pleasure running games at the level of engagement that they want to play. It sounds like 5e on a linear AP with all the combats set to medium or hard would satisfy them but you have clearly stated that you hate that style of play. I...

Very possible but D&D books are not the only examples of bad editing in modern times.

I do not think it is rushed, so much as Wizards of the Coast management, like a lot of modern publishers undervalue editing and copy editing in particular and under resource this aspect of the publishing process.

"We would be feared if we left witnesses"

2024 drifts 2014, it makes it more crunchier and moves away somewhat from strict natural language. There is room for the addition of optional stuff in spat books over the next 5 years and if any of that sticks then there is room to drift the game further away from 2014. What I do not expect...

If you say so, it took me 2 reads of this to realize who was replying.

Yes because at some point a change will split the market. A5e and ToV want to play in WotC's 5e market. If WoTC wants to split their own market that is on them. At the moment they do not, so we have backward compatible, which is really about running the Tyranny of Dragons under the new rules...

Yup, copy editing is one of the most painful jobs ever.

It is not just that, all possible future version of D&D will have flaws that some particular person will not like. if it is just good enough that is fine also. If one want a new game, then go to the new games being developed. The new game you want may not be the game I want.

It should also be pointed out that the social media, bloggers et al have a vested interested in a more changed game. The more changes the more material they have for future discussion.

You can muck about with homebrewed backgrounds taking an existing one as a template or use one provided here.

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It does not look like the character sheet is complete or has bugs, I attempted to remake the basics of a high-level character that I have in Fantasygrounds and the new version of the warcaster does not appear to be in the list (or I could be just blind). As for spells, it looks like the spell...

Plate armour (which they had at Agincourt) offers pretty good protection against arrows. There is a really good playlist on the topic on YouTube. The tl:dr is that if enough arrows are shot at someone there is a decent chance of injury and injuries are likely to severely hamper one's ability to...

In theory you are correct but we have never seen that in this market and I doubt we will. Of course, we will not know the answer unless WoTC's dominance is overturned.

I am not sure that the analogy holds with the wrestling example. Wrestling is a produced entertainment. You produce a wrestling match and persuade/bribe someone to stream/broadcast it and keep at it long enough (and do it well enough ) to capture a largely passive audience. TTRPGs is an active...

TTrpgs are not every market and are closer to social media than any other market in my opinion and all social media a dominated by one player in a given market. Microsoft poured billions into a hole trying to carve a market in steaming an failed.

My argument is that the size of the industry has nothing to do with it. The effort of finding gamers to play with will drive the overall market to a dominant rule system. There will be places where this does not apply. Places with a strong gaming club or friendly game store that the hobby can...

It has nothing to do with the hobby thriving, but the network effect of getting players will drive the hobby to a massively dominant player. A massive technological disruption could change this, either by making it trivial to find players and GMs interested in currently niche systems or...

I think marketing is peripheral to it. It is important in the brand recognition sense but I really wonder how many players are coming into the hobby cold. I think most are introduced into the hobby by being invited to play by some one in the hobby. I think that people coming in cold are coming...