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Obsidian could not afford the D&D license most likely; they have not been doing well. They had to kickstart their last game (Wasteland 2).

I think it has more to do with 5E being the point where WotC realized that they would be far more stable if they based their budget on licensing revenue rather than book sales - such to the point where the book sales would not be as relevant overall. Plus, concentration is really good IMO...

Problem is now that Telltale has a backlog of games as it stands. :( Would be hard to get a game any time soon from Telltale.

If you don't use the DMG prices - be warned; your players will be sitting on multiple legendaries quickly due to the DMG loot tables. I believe it was based on a silver standard at one point, and then moved up to a gold standard. I suspect a large part of the reason is based around ease of...

...How did I get quoted in this? :-p I think you meant to quote DefCon1 :D I think part of the issue is comparison to other players rather than to the world. If player A does 10 damage, and player B does 8 damage, but the monster has 6 HP - that's not "gimping" your character. The end...

Also, avoiding encounters by bypassing them is a solution - and XP is intended to be given as a solution. If, instead of fighting the castle, the players come up with a way to sink the castle into the swamp - then I'd give XP equivalent. FWIW, the leveling guideline we were told is 1-2...

I got a chance to test out the "warlord" build; it's actually pretty good. Nothing will ever match the sheer level of insanity that 4E warlords could do; but the 5E warlord is still a) very, very effective in the context of 5E and b) can actually hold their own a lot better - meaning less...

Ahh. On that front, I can see your reasoning. I do wonder if the idea of the three pillars was being modified during playtest - because the earlier versions of the module are different on even thematic and basic levels. The "fight" with the dragon, for instance, is pretty different from the...

As someone whose group is listed in the playtester credits for both HotDQ and RoT and saw the first hand changes from the very beginning - there is a reason RoT is much better off than HotDQ, and that is because the game changed significantly in terms of base math and the abilities of PCs as...

The problems with the warlord concept translating directly from 4E to 5E is that warlords were pants-on-head crazy powerful when used correctly and synergized with a team. Action point novas would wreck encounters in a heartbeat. I think they toned down the abilities because they were crazy...

Also worth noting that Mearls just got back from Paternity leave; so they might be in more of a catch-up mode for a bit before they turn their attention to the OGL. I'm 99% sure that the OGL will come to fruition in some way, shape, or form.

Last time I talked to him in person was at PAX Dev; but job titles are always kind of funky and stuff. :-p Per your latest chart that you linked above; he's "senior manager". So I don't know how the chain goes up from him to Leeds, but I can't imagine that there are that many more levels?

I thought Mike was basically the senior manager for all of D&D last I checked?

I can say that I'm pretty sure WotC upper management (mearls & co) are on board. I think Hasbro will be the harder sell. I think they'll probably put some wording in that would limit folks to not creating a whole new system based on 5E; but allow smaller products / adventures. Though I wonder...

I think a combination of a second MM with the monsters from various adventures & D&D Basic updates will probably help this. HotDQ / RoT are probably going to be oddballs in that they were developed concurrently with the MM, so I'm not sure they are totally indicative of a going forward plan.

...I think the issue might (speculation alert) be that Hasbro is the one they need to go work things out with before they can go into detail.

The other big they are waiting for is to codify the DMG and get that on lockdown (which they just did). They absolutely didn't want 3pp developers to try to create content without the DMG locked down and MM locked down and even looked at and fixed if need be. The 3pp developers would all have...

I promise you, they aren't entirely happy with the close-mouthedness aspect of it either. But they have internal fights they need to win before they can be certain they can go the routes they want to go. People forget that many of the 3pp developers are the WotC developers close friends and...

Don't attacks against paralyzed creatures auto-crit if they are within 5 feet? EDIT: Also, based on the posting history and time since joining the boards, I'd also not feed the troll.

Oh we are talking 3E? NO idea then. in 5E, you would be making your 3 to 4 attacks a round needing an 11 to hit (rolling twice with advantage). 9s if you are shooting said dragon.