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I'll be honest, I initially thought this was going to be about WotC doing an update and not telling anyone about it. Not actual updates to the stealth mechanics.

I think this is very well said, and very important to the hobby. I grew up in the 70s and 80s playing, and there were a lot of social outcasts and odd people who were welcomed into the game. Nowadays, I realize that they were neurodivergent, but we didn't know it back then. Other social circles...

To me, this is the best example of rules that my group and I just work around. I think it's the equivalent of the "attack versus attack action" from 5.0. Exactly how hiding and attacking works is something we've had to work out via compromise so that it works at our table.

To me, this is the only way to be successful as a GM. I'm going on a trip and going to play some OSR D&D on it. That is ... not my favorite flavor of RPG at all. And yet, my friend who runs the game could run any game system and it would be fun. With my friends when I run a game, I have...

Indeed. They definitely listed the PHB as the fastest-selling product ever, and called the PHB the fastest-selling book in a call to investors. But that was last quarter. Nothing was mentioned at all in the latest report, which tells me things must have slowed. Having been involved with many of...

I'd strongly agree with this. I was thinking about 2024 in terms of innovations, and I see it as much more a cleaning up/errata edition. That's why I call it 5.5. In thinking about what 5.5E did innovate, I think there was options in the play test but they didn't see the light of day. I see the...

It's been my experience that products that are a labor of love are just better than those that are by rote. That doesn't mean that they will necessarily be good, mind you, but something that's made by love tends to read better than something that's not. I am one of the mods for a game design...

I find that interesting. I’m wondering what you are thinking of in particular. I’m not a fan of OSR (I was playing when a lot of those traditions were much more default play) and I think of Dungeon World as, well, very PbTA but with some rules nods to D&D to make the game familiar to those...

It's kind of funny that you mention this because I was just going to fire it up and start over with a new build. Outside of that text, there's nothing that says Dungeons and Dragons when you launch the game and start a new game. It does list Wizards of the Coast as copyright holder, but you...

Using the same Ability Scores and keeping hit points (although on a much compressed scale) was what made the game for me. There are a bunch of other fantasy PbtA games (and I own Chasing Adventure, so that's an example). This change takes Dungeon World from a game you can show to D&D players and...

I pretty much agree Daggerheart is really not a D&D adjacent game. It is very different. I think people who just want a "D&D done right" game won't be happy with it. And I don't know anything much about DC20 but have some friends who've met the author and described him as a super nice and...

I can definitely see where you're coming from, but I don't know if you can make that broad of a statement. I still play with some young players (sons and daughters of my friends and their friends) and greedy play is very much on the table for them. Getting all the stuff is very exciting. And...

I just looked and the PDF release is scheduled for May 20th. So that's when I'll be looking at it, outside of previews and unboxings. I don't know that there's anything that could "spoil" it for me, but then I am not trying to plan a release for a huge product line, so what do I know?

I think this is a really important point to make because that really does seem to be a lot of the goals for the current think of WotC. There is a huge part of the fanbase who's thinking this, and WotC is looking at the people who've started playing since 5E and saying, "these people are our...

You're right, of course. I just blame the fact that I was a young kid in the 70s, and things were different then, and more stuff just slipped through. But in my defense, my playing BG3 has had a lot less of those elements since I haven't sought them out.

I would say it's most obvious in BG3. BG3 is rated "mature" and I would call it somewhere between PG13 and R. The rest of the material I'd call at a PG level. And I'm just saying that from a conservative world view. I have a lot of friends who are a little younger than me (in their 40s) who have...

I know we're talking about new directions for the game but let me put in a quick word for keeping things accessible to younger audiences. I picked up D&D at age 8. And this was the White Box, so there were some parts to it that I'm lucky my parents didn't notice or I would have had to start...

This really makes me sad as it means the times they really are 'a changin. I'm absolutely not against new blood and new ideas in gaming. My Kickstarter/Backerkit account can show the tale of how many projects I've backed. I'm sure I'll be picking up a PDF of Daggerheart soon and I've backed the...

I was thinking of him when I wondered who would be the one to turn the lights out. I guess that turned out to be right.

Apparently, they shipped some to Australia. This is ironic considering how difficult it is to get books or games to Australia in general.