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They should just make it a VR chatroom that you can build in, like Second Life was years ago. Make it a social space to find other adventurers. Tavern brawls, pvp arenas. "Use my world for your adventures" stuff.

The larger the potential audience interaction, the more structure it needs to be palatable. In some ways, that's what the playtest surveys do, and did during D&DNext, according to Mearls. When it just becomes hundreds screaming into the ether, it's unproductive. It helps when the surveys ask...

The beta is now open and live. The official press release: Open Beta goes live today and you wonderful Moonbeamers are asking us for a press release for a recruitment drive (thank you!) If you're interested in letting people know why Moonbeam is great, here are the things we are proudest of...

Allow this Michael to hype two other Mikes' views on the topic. Mike Mearls in one of his many recent interviews (the 'Read Aloud' show) talked about the need to decrease the 'virtual distance' (my term, not his) between creator and consumer. It worked during the D&D Next period with the open...

It doesn't hurt really, either. They can simply be ignored.

That's because we lack the common nomenclature by which to discuss one's interest in playing which form of TTRPG, genre or otherwise. There's been much discussion, but little consensus about player types, party types, dm types and the RPG types that it would take to create a matchmaking...

I can't help but think that this is partly why the Backgrounds in 5.24 are structured the way they are. I'm against 'picking' a background - I think they should be 'woven' (personal choice, YMMV). Is it possible that the text is so sparse and the 'packages' so narrow in variety because they...

The playmat and cards were also present in Return to Dark Tower (they have supply, treasure and monster cards as well), which was released in 2022.

The 'make it up with volume' approach. As you have often said, once you have the books in your hand, you're done with your dependency on them. If getting the seed of the system into more hands is the goal, I'm all for it, as it supports the larger ecosystem of developers in the 5e space...

Let them eat chits! It was good enough for us! 50 bucks is pretty comparable to a lot of board games nowadays. Does WOTC ever play the 'loss leader' card with their products?

Yeah, this is very much like the Return to Dark Tower playmats and cards. It actually looks even better. I really like those dice (like I need more). As kids, I was the oldest of four, and the only one into D&D and geeky stuff. However, we all shared Star Wars and board games, especially Dark...

Return to the Dark Tower had a playmat with cards as well, so not unique to Daggerheart

They never have. They still don't. At least in the C-Suite. And it was 100% the fiction (well, maybe 80%) - that's what Zeb was so genius at producing, despite being saddled with a revised 1e engine, again by C-suite fiat. The fiction produced in the campaign settings alongside the books was...

I guess he's the Original Munchkin, if he was playtesting D&D as a kid, yes?

Okay, so some have observed the similarity to the job descriptions of video game companies. How do similar jobs in the past compare in their descriptive texts? To authors? To cinematic world bible writers? It would be interesting to see, to get a gauge of how WOTC as a company sees itself...

Yes, and thank you for that list. I understood where you were going with that. Raw data is nice. I would definitely count (personally) Witchlight and Radiant as micros. If they ever got sequels, I would definitely count them.

I recall that Ray Winninger was the one who pointed out the book dependency issue (mmearls may have too, but I don't recall it). Comic books have the same kind of problem, which is why they reboot them at #1 so often. In both cases, I just wonder if the quality of the products is what drives...

No argument there, and maybe you can tailor the version of the starter set that references BG3 differently, if you know that's where they're coming from. And a starter set based on the movie is attracting new players from a completely different vector, so it could tailor it more for that crowd...

New players won't be able to tell the difference really. To them, it'll just be 'that's how this translates to tabletop.'

That, and the D&D movie - which, by all the views it eventually got in streaming, was a freakin' success. If they hadn't been working on 5.24, these recent media-adjacent successes in and around the 50th anniversary could have been more strategically leveraged. BUT I am hopeful and look at it...