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2023, the year of D&D... That is a very ambitious roll out. ^This^ IMHO Hasbro has a lot riding on the success of all this stuff to put D&D over as a 'lifestyle' brand. The potential for "D&D" to make money with Toys, Video games, Tv, and Movies is exponentially bigger than anything that it...

I am of the opinion that had WotC stuck to that HP paradigm with 3-5e it would have smoothed out the math at higher levels and greatly reduced the scaling issues that have plagued every edition since. Not a bad notion at all... IMHO Star frontiers has the more recognizable name in the hobby...

The only thing I can think of is that it is a kind of a game design 'blind spot'. Level goes up, of course HP must go up... It has just been so much a part of D&D based games design, that it is just taken as a given. Changing it just doesn't occur to them. When really 'levels' are just a way...

Harry Potter* aside, If you look at the Fantasy that has broken out into the mainstream, you have: Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Conan, and The Witcher. All three taken individually, or heck, even combined are far and away more "low-magic", and less fantastical, than Forgotten Realms...

This is standard corporate speak. Alvarez may very well have legit health concerns. But also they may be rather mild, and in the current year 'for health reasons' may be the new 'seeking new opportunities'... Impossible to know. Honestly, the President title seems rather hollow at Pazio...

This is actually a rather sensible policy if it had remained a constant. WotC has been very coy about how they are 'not' committing to an 'official setting' (Forgotten Realms) for 5e, so it fits that publishing paradigm perfectly. It also serves as a useful bit of WotC policy to point to for...

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! We can't have people looking up the definitions of things. This is crazy talk! Just be glad you didn't go completely off the rails and cite the dictionary definition of "Full" and "Compatible". Or heaven forbid; both. "Dan" might have written a blog post about: "What Does...

Shocked! ...Shocked I say! Never. The 50th 5eAE is Not. A. New. Edition. Therefore anything that they do is inherently compatible with what came before because, it is just a evolved not-edition of the same game. Get it? ;)

I have provided concrete examples and explanations for why I believe that removing death from the game is a sufficient paradigm shift to be able to say that you would be no longer playing the game as intended. That you disagree with my reasons, outright ignore them, or evidently do not accept...

No, you're serving as an object lesson in reality denial. Notice in my posts how I preface a lot of what I say with In my opinion... You may disagree, that's fine. That you have entirely missed the point I was making is no surprise now that you have doubled down on trying to gaslight me that...

Yes it does. Because dictionary. You are openly denying what a word means in the English language. Still no. The definition of words is not his, mine, yours, or the "gaming community's" call to make on all societies behalf. For someone who ostensibly wants objective truth, you seem to be...

From the dictionary: Gatekeeping noun 1. The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something. From the article: "What Does ‘Gatekeeping’ Mean in RPGs?" Hot Tip: It means the exact same thing as it does everywhere else: Because Dictionary. The author "Dan" then...

I never made that claim. I have not once referenced playing RAW. I specifically and intentionally use the words: Gameplay as intended. Which is why Appeals to the authority of Rule Zero are irrelevant to what I am talking about. See my post replies #344 and #347. Wherein I make such extreme...

"Gatekeeping" invoked. Check. News flash: I cannot stop you from having fun any way you want. I am gatekeeping nothing. And invoking 'Rule Zero' is a total strawman because it has nothing to do with my objective statement how outright ignoring certain rules or fundamentally changing them...

Except that by definition they are not. It's like playing a game of "chess" where you use the board and pieces but you are outright ignoring any rule you want during play, and still calling it "chess". You might be using the chess board and pieces, but by any objective measure you were not...

My reply covers this. Just like there are options in the DMG to make things harder, one could do similar system tweaks to make things even easier. But when we get to: "At this point we ignore the mechanical system entirely, because 'story'." That is not a system tweak to make the game...

Unlucky streaks do happen. I have had that as a player and a GM. It makes for interesting gaming. People go on streaks IRL, so I find it emulative. Not a problem. I don't see the problem here. These are all potential consequences of running the game as intended. It is what makes the...

If they are a group that runs things pretty much straight up I can believe them. When my group did Waterdeep heist the GM ran it as intended and at about 5th level I stopped feeling any sense of real risk in combat with my rouge PC. In fact started taking more risks with little or no...