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True, older works can ben updated to appeal to a modern audience... and luckily purist fans of the original are always very open to such changes. I'm sure they would never endlessly bemoan every alteration or omission as part of some plot to pander to some agenda/make unholy sums of...

While I would have been interested to see this series, I can't say I'm surprised. Dragonlance was a decent story for the time, but times have changed. I don't have demographics, but I suspect these boards skew older than the D&D player base as a whole, and I think a lot of us around here don't...

"Working" on them can mean a whole lot of things. If they are still hammering out design in May, then yeah, I'd say the PH releases pretty late in year. If they are working on the final approvals with the printers, a late summer/early fall release probably isn't out of the question. I guess...

Plus it's noting that Larian doesn't get the whole $60 from each sale either. Steam, Amazon, or whoever sold the game gets a their cut, and there's overhead and the development costs. I have no idea what they make from each sale. Anyone know? $20 $10? Less? Nothing to sneeze at, but I doubt it's...

I find the whole thing pretty suspect. Selling off one of your best money makers seems like a pretty bad idea... of course shareholders don't tend to think past the next quarter's earnings, so I guess it's possible. I'm sure there are some who would welcome the idea of anyone other than Hasbro...

For most monsters I typically use the average, but I’ll beef up the leader—max or close to it. I like the idea of tossing in some runts with minimum hit points for a big fight. Now for special fight, with a solo monster, like a dragon or giant, I’ll roll hit points, but I usually give them at...

I doubt we'll see any more PHB play tests, or if we do it will be pretty minor stuff, like a few spells or feats. I think they have what they need for the Player's Handbooks and it's probably on track for the May timeframe that was announced and retracted (I suspect they just aren't ready to...

I picked Mix, because I'm all over the place. When it comes to D&D, anymore I go digital only adventures, but physical and digital for rulebooks (and to be honest, I rarely refer to the physical books, i just find D&D Beyond to be very convenient to use at the table and for prep). I'm about...

I definitely think they should ignore the fiddly bits like wrath and lightning charges, but I can see adding special arrows, some of the potions, and the alchemy crafting. I also like jumping being a bonus action (I really liked the mechanics that were introduced early on in the play test where...

I‘d be surprised if you’re right, I doubt they’d want to make changes so soon after reprinting that many monsters. Still, if they are fiddling with the math in a substantial way, they could decide to just take the hit and do a re-revised monster book in a year or two with updated stat blocks.

I doubt there will be any MM play testing; I’m pretty sure they sorted out what their plan were back when they put out Monsters of the Multiverse. I‘d bet that book is more than halfway done already. As for the DMG, there's only so much of it that actually needs play testing to begin with—all...

Even that seems to be a reference to a specific storyline involving established characters having an unexpected sexual encounter. I think the whole post is about poorly done pandering. Kinda seems like people are jumping to conclusions (but I don’t know for sure).

I got mine last week from WotC with a physical digital bundle. The cards look great. Seems like yet another reason to avoid Amazon.

My wife enjoys board games, but isn't interested in RPGs, so she stays upstairs when everyone arrives (to keep the dogs calm--one really freaks out when people are in the house). Weather permitting she might go hiking with a friend, otherwise she reads or watches trash TV while we play. It's...

I really like the Settlement character sheet idea. I'm interested to hear how it went.

When I was a kid in the 80s my mother was twice convinced by televangelists that the apocalypse was imminent, she was certain Y2K would be the end of the world, and of course, 2012 was surely the end because of the Mayan calendar... so I take prognostications of doom with a pretty hefty grain of...

I'm pretty late to this discussion (and apologies in similar points have been raised before), but I have a relevant anecdote. Some years ago, I decided to run a James Bond style spy campaign set in Eberron (I literally stole plots from old Bond movies, had every adventure start in media res at...

The Book of Many Things, which has a lot of cool ideas. These days I buy most of my books on Beyond, but I’m looking forward to getting my physical copy of this one.

I guess that would be a win for those who want to see D&D (or would it be X&X by then?) completely destroyed within a year.

I certainly agree that attunement should be better explained, but I don't know that it was intentional nor that the default assumptions about magic item prevalence need to change. DMs should be free to decide what they want to do, and have the game's mechanics work just fine with low magic is...