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Tell me how those numbers are reflective of changes that have all happened in only the past WEEK.

And yet, it will affect them and the gaming community around them nonetheless. And yet, there are MANY publishers who have been surviving and thriving selling to SOMEONE. They're not selling books into the ether and getting money back. Pathfinder WAS outselling WotC at one point (or at worst...

I will continue to play D&D at home. I will not purchase Wizards RPG products. I simply can't in good conscience support a company that acts the way they have done and shows no real contrition when their brazen lies and appalling business practices have been laid bare. They have become what...

Says you. THEY say they can... and will.

As I stated, any DM who accepts such an argument from a player has ONLY themselves to blame for letting their own bad judgement destroy their own game. Hey, if the DM wants battlemechs in their D&D - I believe that's like Warhammer, right? Go for it. Game on and be happy. But, "Gauntlets and...

My 1E AD&D PH does not list gloves or gauntlets either in the equipment lists. As you noted EVERY edition of D&D pretty much has the SAME equipment list. I would not be surprised to find that NEVER has a PH equipment list included gloves or gauntlets as a separate thing to buy. Strangely...

Golly. You're right. I've just been playing for decades in some ridiculous way that was never intended. If a player simply says their character wears gloves then to hell with actually having some indication... no... ANY indication that that's actually been already established. My mistake.

It is absolutely reasonable. I'll repeat for emphasis and clarity... As I said, this is how the game of D&D is played and always has been. Others may choose to play it differently and I have no problem with that. But MY understanding of how the game works is definitely stated to players at...

Players need to BE SPECIFIC, before things happen, or their PC's BE DEAD. That is how the game is played and always has been. If they were to present a reasonable argument why their PC should be considered to be wearing gloves then I'd consider whether it really ought to apply. However, with...

A campaign world only needs to SEEM to exist beyond the direct experiences of the PC's. A DM has to first prepare the amount of the world they NEED, then they can put as much additional time and effort into the parts that they don't need.

Any player in MY campaigns would never get away with being anything like as powerful as Sauron, nor even if they weren't ever as powerful, to act like Sauron acts and still expect to remain a PC like those run by the others at the table. His "build" therefore would be moot. :) Sauron as an...

Correlation is not causation though. That the OSR and the decline of 3.5 sales coincided doesn't have to mean that OSR prompted the decline. Certainly little OSRIC didn't prompt it by itself. It could well be the reverse - that the 3.5 decline itself prompted the growth of the OSR once OSRIC...

TLDR: No edition has an expiration date.

The fiction can't override the DM unless the DM permits themselves to be overridden - but then that's not the DM being overridden, but doing something they CHOOSE to allow. The DM being overridden would be players saying, "You have to do what we say because WE are in charge of the game and not...

Get off my lawn...

Well, PLAYERS have no reason to jump in with 3 books - they only SHOULD need 1 as someone new to the game, and that's daunting enough as it is. They should NEVER need to have a MM or DMG unless they are actually going to run games themselves. Doesn't mean they should be DENIED those books...

And yet TSR produced all these original settings that WotC is going back to the well for. So MANY settings that TSR originally choked the sales of them all because customers could only buy and play limited numbers of them at any one time.

First - I never expect NEWBS to simply pick up any book of 300 F'ING pages of rules and just... LEARN IT by next week. Second - Present to them SIMPLE rules. Rules that are readily understood and exercised by those new to the game - especially combat rules which they are going to deal with more...

How about an original setting? Do they really not have more NEW setting ideas of their own to try? Just redoing old settings? Not saying any setting redux is BAD... I'm just asking.

"Backward compatibility" is when you don't have faith in your changes to actually stand on their own merits as important, necessary, and worthy, and you want to convince existing players that your changes won't actually be significant, and therefore they won't be upset by them. NO edition has...