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I would not allow the combination. Sneak Attack works with Finesse or Ranged weapons. Agonizing Blast works with cantrips that deal damage. I think it's pretty clear that they are meant to be separate, so if true strike makes it count as a spell for Agonizing Blast, it also counts as a spell...

The IP in D&D lies, I think, primarily in locations rather than characters. Things like the Yawning Portal and such. And that's much harder to monetize.

Another game where a variety of actions in combat are strongly incentivized by the rules is TORG: Eternity. T:E is calibrated so that, barring shenanigans, it's going to be fairly common that PCs hit their opponents, but those hits will usually just be regular successes, and in most cases that...

Octarine.

Nah. It's deciding that it's likely things will go wrong, and figuring out how to prepare for that. No plan survives contact with the enemy, and so on.

The world needs both. You need the people who look at what could be possible, and the people who look at what could go wrong.

It's notable that in his TSR post-mortem, Ryan Dancey identified several problems with the way TSR was doing business, but almost all of them could be traced back to not knowing their market.

Yes and no. I'm no marketing expert, but my understanding is that you sometimes need to be a bit oblique with your questions in order to learn what you really want to know. For example, if asked "Do you want more X?" the answer will often be "Yes", but more X might require changes elsewhere that...

Prestige classes are a great concept poorly realized. I think they might have worked better as feats exclusive to those organizations, perhaps together with the rules from PHB2 or DMG2 (can't recall right now which) about renown with various organizations that would unlock certain abilities.

Perhaps they felt that with Sigil, they were just going in circles.

I think part of the issue is the same that at least partially caused the OGL debacle: management sees people making money using "their" stuff and go "That money should be ours!". But they ignore that the other people are actually doing work for that money, and that they're probably better at...

In 4e at least, you wouldn't use level 2 monsters as cannon fodder against level 6 PCs. You'd use level 6 minions. Overall, they'd probably do about similar damage to the party, but the minions would hit more often and be harder to hit, but once they do get hit they go down. In 5e, a CR 2...

I think this primarily works with smaller creators. I remember back in the day when we used to have both official reps for Wizards hanging around on these boards as well as individual designers. Heck, I remember back in the pre-ENWorld days when I was talking AD&D on either mailing lists or...

Warlocks? Hyperspecialist casters (Warmages, Beguilers, Dread Necromancers)? Martial adepts (though I believe Dreamscarred Press did something along those lines)? Artificers? For all the additional classes PF1 made, they sure avoided some of the cooler 3.5e class concepts.

As I recall, these goals were stated in early-stage website articles. My guess is that when they actually started to implement them, it turned out that they didn't work out in practice. That said, there are certainly 1e-isms in the game as-is (or at least there were in 5.0) – notably how...

It's good if there is some difference between their saves. 10 points is a bit big though. In PF2, the difference between good and bad save is usually about 4 points, and that feels like a reasonable spot to be in. Using the wrong spell isn't an auto-loss, and the right spell isn't an auto-win...

I think one issue with 3e was that higher-level spells were both more impactful and harder to save against. I think it would have been interesting to see some interplay there. Perhaps this could be combined with hp thresholds for incapacitating spells á la 13th age. Maybe you could have...

So... no earworms?

Day Twenty-Five : Do not want to go through Mines of Moria, as suspect Balrog still angry about bad date we went on back in Second Age. Day Twenty-Six: In Mines of Moria. Yep, Balrog still angry. Day Twenty-Seven: Fell into shadow. Balrog such a prat. Had to do some quite unspeakable...

You are not supposed to edit Wikipedia based on just your own knowledge. "Trust me, bro" is not an adequate citation. There needs to be a source elsewhere to base it on. To use a D&D example: let's say Andy Collins wants to set the record straight on some aspect of 4th edition design. He was...