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I think it can be hard to try to draw broad conclusions about what makes an adventure good or bad. In the end, good execution matters much more than following some formula. An adventure can have all the right elements but still be mediocre if they are done poorly. Rime, Princes, OotA and...

The same article says the most popular character name is "Bob." So by that logic people who hate stupid character names must be positively apoplectic. Or maybe people don't really care what other tables do, and don't view disagreement with their own preferences as some sort of slap in the face?

I would argue the name is about more than just the games themselves. As the threads cited in the OP demonstrate, many people are approaching 5E with the attitude that the game belongs to us, and that we are not beholden to any one company to play the game we love. So I would propose...

I would agree with those that say the 5ER has been underway for several years. In fact, with the OSR fiasco, I think 2023 will be looked back upon as a banner year. While I agree that the majority of 5E groups are running "Hasbro D&D," I don't think that relative numbers are a fair measure...

Are any games going to become a "D&D Killer" (as some hyperbolic youtubers are dubbing Daggerheart and/or MCDM RPG)? No. However if you define success as paying your employees and keeping the lights on then I think most established RPG companies are going to do fine. I think 5E adjacent games...

This. I only served in the army for three years, over 25 years ago. Yet it drives me nuts and totally ruins my immersion when shows get easy details about the military completely wrong. Lots of times is is things like not knowing how to salute or where medals go on a uniform, but sometimes it...

Man, now that I see the whole list of Disney IP, there are so many great crossovers there: Alien vs. Pirates Escape from Witch Mountain to the Planet of the Apes Raiders of the Love Bug Star Wars: Attack of the Minions

Whatever the downside of edition changes I am very happy WotC hasn't tried to maintain compatibility with an RPG from the 70's. D&D is more popular and accesable than ever before - I believe that is in large part because the designers were willing to let it evolve into the best version of the...

I would say that I have significant degree of loyalty to D&D as a concept. I have been playing on and off since I was in grade school so there is a lot of nostalgia and great memories of gaming. I would even say it is part of my identity, the same way being a fan of particular band or sports...

I think his style is exactly what you would expect from a person was extremely well (and widely) read, but had never taken a college-level writing course. He had an immense vocabulary and the ability to use very complex sentence structure - just zero sense of when to dial that s*** back a notch...

I have always heard it pronounced BECK-me. Maybe we should start referring to B/X as "Bix" for consistency?

I love the art, but I just don't think you can beat the original Erol Otus piece.

I think an underappreciated factor is the creation of VTTs. The biggest problem with RPGs has always been finding a group to play with. This problem only gets worse if you are not in HS or college and have a more limited group to potentially find compatible gamers in. VTTs largely solve this...

Absolutely nothing. Which is why I thought the joke here was pretty obvious. I guess not. /shurg.

The feedback they got from the playesters on the release dates was less positive than they had hoped, so they are going to rework them and give us a new iteration of the release dates in the next packet.

I tend to agree with both parts of that statement. But what is the worst case scenario for the hobby. What is the equivalent of revoking the OGL that WotC could do with DDB? Sure, WotC can enshitify DDB over time and make it worse for for users and third party publishers once they are...

As a general matter I would say carrying capacity does not come into play. That said I as a DM I would disallow anything patently absurd. I don't care what the rules say, an elf can't put a stone golem in a headlock and drag it around.

Man, I miss the days when you could just bash Disney for ruining Star Wars without worrying that you were inadvertently supporting someone's pro-incel, anti-diversity culture war agenda.

Yeah, alligators are totally the glass cannons of the animal kingdom. Their bite is OP but if you can avoid that they have some exploitable weaknesses.