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Did they say whether this had anyting to do with the "Classic Settings" we're supposed to be revisiting? I can't tell if we should take products like Candlekeep Mysteries and Ghosts of Salt Marsh as classic settings, or that we're supposed to be expecting more traditional understandings of what...

I'm pretty sure by "formats" they're referring to the types of publications they already do: Adventures, Campaign Settings, Bestiaries. My interpretation of the statemt about a "format we haven't seen before" wasn't that it's a wholly new format, but that the settings in question had not...

GW was able to progressively renovate parts of their IP by taking all of their analog-dependent factions, and mixing in a little extra. Over the course of a few years of narrative evolution, the original cultural analog starts to fade into the background and the new original content starts to...

The whole idea that a campaign setting needs to have real world cultural analogs is lazy. I excuse Mystara for doing this because it sort of did it first before it was a tired trope, but I would be 10000% open to a hypothetical resurrection of Mystara moving these cultures away from their real...

Lol, I wish I could see the face the based "NuTSR" makes when it realizes what we're really nostalgic for is Darlene and Jennell Jaquays.

How much of this is evidence of Planescape's success, and how much of it is evidence of the bloat that brought TSR down? But, Dark Sun had... 6 boxed sets, 26 supplements and adventures, 16 novels! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dark_Sun_modules_and_sourcebooks...

I feel like you must have that backward. Spelljammer is copyright 1989, the same year as 2nd Edition. Planescape was released 1994, not long before the black cover reprints, and pretty close to the tail end of 2nd edition's support. I'd buy that late 2nd edition players have a sense of...

Cortex Plus (and by extension Prime) already claimed to be written with special attention toward supporting online play. I agree that a game optimized for streaming sounds like a terrible game to actually play.

Your original post wonders why they were split. The answer is that they were never split. Strength was added to the game solely for the purpose of deciding how fast Fighters would level up. Later on, Constitution was added to the game solely for the purpose of deciding how many hit points you...

Woah, this is still happening?

Where can I donate to WotC's legal defense fund?

I've seen various explanations for "why". Some games want to communicate that the character you're playing might have started out tougher or more experienced than the character you may have played in a previous installment. In some games, your starting hero may be introduced at level 5, but...

It's not uncommon in video game RPGs to start higher than level 1. FF VII starts you off at level 6, and you automatically increase to level 7 after the first fight. FF VIII starts you at level 7. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that true newbs don't see any obligation to begin play at...

Yeah. One of his equations has dexterity improve HP. The only way that makes senses is if the HP aren't meat, but includes your capacity to avoid being hit. But i also think it's clear that the two mechanics mentioned in the article, his weird damage mechanic, and his weird HP mechanic, were...

I did a quick check in my browser's js console and got this distribution for his damage mechanic: 1: "16.706%" 3: "2.7851%" 4: "2.8011%" 5: "3.221%" 6: "3.6879%" 7: "4.234%" 8: "4.824%" 9: "2.7613%" 10: "3.6266%" 11: "3.5924%" 12: "3.7377%" 13: "3.8243%" 14: "3.8246%" 15: "3.7099%" 16...

His exploding dice mechanic is interesting. It has strange implications. For example it's impossible to deal exactly 2 damage. If your initial roll is a 2, you would roll a 2nd d6 and add it to the result

Weren't the alters set up by some evil clerics, rather than the humanoids themselves?

"these races are not human" A lot of real world colonial situations involve eliminationist and dehumanizing rhetoric denying the humanity of the other side. So the twist to make all this ok and comfortable to tell stories about is to just imagine that the rhetoric were true?

B2 was a Basic D&D Module. The Humanoids weren't evil. They were Chaotic.

Why does that need an XP reward? If you think it needs an XP reward, then create a reward structure around things like that. D&D wasn't about saving villages from floods, or throwing a ring into Mt Doom. D&D was about getting treasure. If you wanted to use the majority of D&D's rules to play...