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Umm, from what I’ve read 4e did quite well sales wise when compared to previous editions of D&D. It failed to meet some exceptionally high standards that Hasbro was using at the time to justify making something into one of their major lines, but that’s not the same thing as not doing well. It...

Oh, I agree completely. The skill system in D&D would work a lot better in practice if it was more explicit in the PHB that skills can and should be paired with different attributes depending on the situation.

I think it’s more like they’re thinking “I didn’t want to burn a skill proficiency making my Cat Burglar Rogue able to climb worth a damn”.

I always run into people wanting to use Acrobatics for climbing. Climbing stuff is like half the point of the Athletics skill.

It also encroaches into stuff more reasonably covered by Investigation, because players feel like they need to be good at Perception, so they’ll use every trick in the book to get you to let them use it instead of Investigation (see also everyone who wants to use Acrobatics when Athletics is...

There’s a reason that PF2 builds Perception in to every class, so you don’t feel compelled to jump through hoops to get proficiency in it.

5e is my favorite edition of the game, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have complaints ;-) I’m not a big fan of the skill system as currently implemented. I’d much rather have some more clear advice on how to adjudicate skill use, and I feel like a number of classes (looking at you Fighter!) need...

To be clear, I don't mean to imply that Capital L Literature is higher quality or better, I 100% don't believe that. It's simply a different set of priorities for a book that is trying to appeal to an audience that values those qualities. I don't feel like this is stereotyping any more than we...

So, you're not wrong, any book can be good and any book can be bad. That said, "good" and "bad" are not enormously useful descriptors here. Authors of Genre Fiction and authors of Capital L Literature are (typically) trying to do different things, because they're satisfying desires of different...

I'd say it's more like a C, with the caveat that it's hard to evaluate this sort of thing independent of the rest of the trilogy. Agreed though, that it's hard not to grade this sort of stuff on a curve, simply based on its connection to the rest of the hobby and the general Nostalgia Colored...

There was a short story called Ivory in the Blood by Brian A. Hopkins in Dragon #158. It’s about the last dragon slayer, who’s called back into service to kill the last dragon, long after everyone thought they were extinct. For some reason it’s managed to stay stuck in my head, even 32 years later.

Honestly, it’s fine. It’s not great, but it’s fine. Like, if I was looking at the earlier Dragonlance books through eyes not clouded by nostalgia I’d probably also think their writing was just fine. That said, I’ve recently reread the original Chronicles and Legends, and I do feel like the...

Honestly, the problem with the book isn’t that it doesn’t make sense. It’s perfectly consistent with itself as far as I can tell. The problem is it feels off because it’s not terribly consistent with the way the world has been portrayed in the past.

The same... Some spoiler filled thoughts.

So, I'd love to give it a listen, but there's like 12 hours of The Mike Mearls Happy Fun Hour in the Twitch archives, do you happen to know which one this comes up in?

I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and so far it's, well, fine. A few bits were a bit rushed, and it's clearly in the "setting things up so we can get to the actual story" space, but I'm enjoying it well enough.

I just wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed reading through this thread, it brought back a lot of memories from when I was obsessively reading this stuff. Thank you so much for doing it.

Shannon Appelcline thinks it could be much larger, due to bigger groups (10-20 people in some cases) and the fact that people go in and out of them, so individual DMs could have many players. Ryan Dancy thinks it‘s a reasonable estimate, probably the right order of magnitude, within a few...

I mean, that Bard is MTG art, but it was MTG art from the Forgotten Realms MTG set, so it doesn’t really surprise me that they’re reusing it for D&D stuff.

Awesome, thanks.