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What is the purpose of this nit-picky commentary? It's pretty apparent to me that both are subjective opinions. She's obviously speaking from a raw, emotional level of subjective passion to a friend/acquaintance of hers, even if it is a podcast. She's not shilling. You are being so critically...

Wizards of the Coast, like many companies, is not led by the same people over the years. Leadership changes, Brand and Design teams change, restrictive partnership licenses expire, and as time progresses, opportunities occur to introduce new generations to older IP content are increased. And if...

I don't think D&D is necessarily good for other IPs with different physics and magic systems, but it is good for any kind of D&D world you want to make within the multiverse.

This is why 4E combats took forever for us. Huge pools of HP and crazy grid tactics planning and implementation.

Nobody at in my 2024 games play single-class sorcerers, but I've seen multiclass builds with all the other Charisma casters, like paladins (most popular as a 1st level dip for armor, and ultimately many smite slots), warlocks and bards.

I have a vision of hand crossbows themselves, (and maybe braces/belts) having specialized hooks on part of their frame, to set the string against, letting you pull them back into the locking positions. It's a rough vision, but good enough for the action narrative of my brain. I can imagine...

The Core Books are multiversal. Better to save the Gods for specific campaigns where they appear. New players don't need to know about Silvanus if they are playing in Greyhawk. But maybe the Greyhawk gods appear in the DMG's Greyhawk campaign chapter?

I don't like the Positive (Good) and Negative (Evil) Energy Planes as they seem boring and empty. I merged the Negative Energy Plane into the Shadowfell, and the Feywild isn't "Positive," rather is a source of Chaotic energy. Essentially my homebrew campaign has 5 "Spirit Realm" Planes that are...

IME, difficulty scales most noticeably based on action economy. The more bad guy actions and attacks, the more the heroes will feel the heat. A small number of bad guys is still going to be outclassed by a party of heroes, each with their own suite of actions. If one wyvern is easy, send 2 or...

I don't think this accurately reflects the narrative of the world. Just char op for PCs. Noncombat NPCs (let's say an Acolyte) are not naturally optimized or have ability scores of 15+ (unless the DM wants to do so). It makes sense to me that if your background is as an Acolyte, the...

I don't know about them, but if my character died in the Abyss, the party is rescuing a new NPC-turned PC to step in. Do you just sit and watch people if your character dies? Or stop coming to the game?

Anecdotally, when things slow down our games it is because people don't know the rule/effect and have to look it up. This gets easier and speeds up over time as the players get used to their attacks, tactics, and options. At-Will actions have trained my table, and as the party learns their...

... it does not cost a spell slot... that we know of... ;) But yeah, I do think you're right. Magic items will be the way to go beyond physical/mental limits.

We had a great time with OotA. Everyone made 2 characters in the beginning, choosing one as their primary, and aft the other was an NPC that would be "found" later if the first died. There were fascinating regions, great fights, and several good deaths. Glabbagool was awesome.

Wizards doesn't own words, correct. But they do get to define their creations, just like you do. Sure, you can disagree, but following your further logic, does that mean that your own definitions don't matter and people get to define them as something other than how you do? I'm pretty certain...

But doesn't the limitation of the Light property (the root of the combo) limit it to one extra attack? "When you take the attack action, you can make one extra attack as a bonus action later in the turn." Doesn't that limitation still apply with Nick, even if Nick repeats it in its description?

I did love the art of the 3E blue. However, I think the more sleek, sinuous body lets it burrow (swim?) through sand with less resistance, like a sand worm or grabboid, and therefore more feasible.

This looks like an attempt to replace campaign-specific story descriptors like bonds/flaws and the like, with ability-based descriptors. It's not the same thing, but it is a thought-jogger for how to portray your character. I never liked putting evil alignment options in the 2014 PH...

Well, if the 2024 Monster Manual explains how the "Alignment" entry is being representative of "typical" monsters of the respective type, that solves it. It wouldn't need to be in each entry.

I see some criticisms about the PHB that don't make sense to me because the issues make more sense to be DM/NPC/Narrative/Story/Exploration/Encounter kinds of things, each of which are the purview of the DM. Leverage and other NPC factors. The DM decides if the NPC has qualities that can be...