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I don't think that's the point. There is a point about the age level that's appropriate for language. I know that I was reading D&D at age 9 and that would have made the book off limits to me at that age. I am forever grateful that some of the artwork didn't get it banned for me at the time.

This is one of those things that are heresy, but I did enjoy the changes to how the Planes and the cosmos were setup in 4E. Feel free to reject my opinions outright on that accord.

It's funny that you mention this. It has been a long time since those days, and I guess I do remember rules updates. The thing is, I was regularly playing Living Forgotten Realms in those days, and they used the latest rules all the time. I do remember some rules updates about Stealth, but it...

I don't remember any problems with the stealth rules in 4E and I played a Rogue all the way into Epic Tier. I was just looking up the rules and I found this, which explains why I never had an issue: For me, that resolved problems I have in 5E: if you're sneaking, you leave stealth, do your...

As a 4E fan, I don't see any significant extra influence on the 5.5 edition, other than the bloodied condition. I don't think the Weapon Masteries are the equivalent of at-wills. I wish this were the case, mind you.

Oh I love so many things about Break! It is the most beautiful RPG I have ever seen, as well as being the best laid out. I think you watch the Knights of Last Call, but they did an extensive look at it, and ... it looks great. My problem with it is the core mechanic. It's roll-under on a D20...

The games Fabula Ultima is trying to emulate have a lot of combat to them. The game has very strong rules for combat but is more narrative for other scenes. If combat is something that's not for you, I don't think this will be the game for you. Much like if you don't like combat, JRRPGs aren't...

I think you're making a really good point. When the whole issue dropped, I thought that they could just have done this with D&D Beyond and not had any issues at all. In fact, people would have been happy about it.

It may be that I have some of these folks on Ignore, which wouldn't surprise me. Even though Story Now isn't really how I do things, I do find it really interesting to discuss, so I'd be happy to do that. And I find that with a lot of other game styles: they may not be for me, but they also end...

I haven't seen too much of this on Enworld. I think there are a lot of people who don't have much experience with other games, and when we start talking about stuff like "The Conversation" it tends to have smaller groups responding. A couple of times when I've been discussing "play to find out"...

I wonder what kind of world building WotC is interested in doing. It will be really interesting to see where this goes and if they can build something new that fits into the game that D&D has become.

I am very much not a Southerner, being from Wisconsin, but I have used "all y'all" in spoken conversation, and it works at the right moment. I wouldn't use it in written form unless I was writing fiction. And since I have enough friends from the south, they feel like they can make fun of me for...

All your seats at the table.

This is in my bailiwick but the thing I am wondering is why you'd need to do this. Perhaps you could give an example of what you'd want to convey with this. Honestly, I wouldn't use any of those options. I'd be glad to help but I'd say that you can be used both in the singular and plural sense...

I think you just answered your own question. You don't see this problem in a digital presentation. If I need to drop in a monster for an encounter that I'm creating on the fly, I have an indexed search option that I can use which makes it not an issue. If I'm at a table and need to find...

As I'm thinking about this, I'm shaking my head. On a book like this, how many people are involved? No one thought about consistently placing creatures based on name? If I had to do a top ten list of things people have argued about with previous Monster Manuals, this would be easily in the top...

I think this is a really important point and one that people who don't play with a VTT may not understand. I play in Pathfinder, which is a rules-heavy system with a lot of bells and whistles. The automation in my VTT makes it much easier to play. It lets me concentrate on engaging with my...

This is a really good question, and I can only answer it for me. I want the VTT to automate in-game stuff. I'm not one who wants to see a fireball explode in animation or have a sword swing with a "wooosh" sound, although you can do that with most VTTs. That's something I don't care about. What...

That's been the message for pretty much the entire cycle of product development for this edition. Books and physical products aren't going to move D&D into that billion dollar a year business that WotC wants it to be: it will be online sales and transactions that could do it. The move to online...

When did all this change in the perception of 5.5E happen? I mean, it seems like not long ago that talk of being not impressed by the new books and not seeing a lot of enthusiasm for it was met with "This is the greatest, fastest-selling edition ever!" I'm dating myself as older, but I'm...