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Inexperienced GMs. DDB does not come with a great user manual. You can see that with the recent thread about maps. A do a lot of publishing software setup and testing and it requires a certain mindset and level of curiosity to figure it out on your own and I see a lot of smart people who cannot...

Fireball should have the added effect that it sets people who fail their saves on fire and continues to burn unless you take a full action to stop, drop, and roll.

The encounter builder does not even work correctly with 5.5. The CR calculator is off. They specifically tell you to build the encounter in maps to get the right results.

It is called being professional. There are a lot of things in my industry that I think are crap but I work to the best of my ability with whatever I have to work with. If you act like a professional and have integrity, you can design a great truck even if you do not like trucks. People spend...

This is still a joke. A silvered weapon has a 5% chance to be useful in a fight against a were creature that is in hybrid or animal form. Werewolves are also a joke in 5.5.

Great video: DDB Review

It limits the players if they create under your campaign to the options you allow but there is no 2024 off toggle. You can turn off 2014 but not 2024. You can restrict the players from the books in the campaign but not if they own them so the players have to know not to use 2024/5.5 options.

Do not get me started on how bad search design is now that we have 5.5 and that horrible glossary. The glossary does not even pop until the 4th or 5th result and then you get the whole thing. You have to control+f to find the term you want, if you’re lucky. It is fine if you have a direct link...

It is because they built it that way in the database. The free rules are listed separately from the PHB even if you own the PHB. Basically, bad design.

I do need help. I am in the process of replacing my bookcases with taller ones so that I can gain an extra 3 shelves for RPG books.

I have no clue. I have bookcases and hard drives of RPG material I have never opened. I buy things that look cool to me and always think that the material can be incorporated into my games but that never happens. I usually build it myself. I think this means that I have a problem. I should seek...

I called Saga 3.75. It was a beautiful upgrade of 3.5 that fixed a lot of my issues with the system. It had some 4e elements but stayed closer to 3.5.

Star Wars Saga Edition. Saga style rules should have been the basis of a fixed 3.5.

No, actually, because that would give access to copyrighted material and place it in the public domain. The reality is that Meta should be required to pay a fine to the authors or right's holders for every piece of material they accessed illegally.

Medical articles are critical for a lot of people to get paid too. Editorial assistants, managing editors…..peer review and copyediting are not free.

It is theft if they used the content and did not pay for it. I am mildly amused at all the open access advocates that screamed for years about big publishers now realizing that giant billionaire company AI just took all that work to train their models for free to make more money. In STM...

You can still get the e-tools full disk on eBay or place like Noble Knight. It is near impossible to find the old datasets unless you get them from folks who saved them or use something like pcgen. It is sad but another example of losing a bit of unarchived history.

Actually, 3e has a really good set of tools. The CD in the book was expanded into E-Tools that was further developed by Code Monkey Publishing. You were able to buy expansion sets for new 3e/3.5 books from CMP. In fact, I still have most of my CMP datasets and the e-tools CD. It never fizzled...

Yeah and I really doubt anyone pre-ordered for the gold dragon mini.

Ok, I agree with you as well. I work with a lot of tech publishing vendors and convincing them that polishing the UI is always an uphill battle versus developing the next new thing.