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Of course they’ve been working on all these books for a long time, and there’s a whole lot that can be worked on regardless of the play test — creating a character, using ability scores, equipment. Plus much of the play testing has been more or less done for a long time: they haven’t revisited...

Vecna Lives!

My guess: Same trade dress, but in gold instead of red, for the 50th anniversary. A subtle, but noteworthy difference. And all product released in the anniversary year will have the anniversary logo on the back.

Because the edition has always appeared on the front cover of every other edition, right? Except 1E of course. Oh, and 3.0. And 4E. Or any iteration of Basic D&D. Actually, only 2E and 3.5 have had the edition on the front cover. Pure Mandela Effect.

I played a lot of Palladium games in late 80s through 90s--Robotech, Rifts, TMNT, Heroes Unlimited--and we had a lot of fun with it. At the time, it had some things that, say D&D 2E lacked, like skills and a more detailed combat system. But even then, there were things that were off with the...

I don't hate the concept. Publish a setting book with enough info to get the average group what they need, and provide digital supplements for those of us who want more detail--perhaps when prepping to actually run a campaign. It's a decent way to avoid the pit falls of printing expensive...

I know what I would like to see in the next packet, but I doubt any of it will be in there: An update on 1st and 4th level feats; a lot of things have changed since pack 2, and I think some of these need another pass. Revisions to mixed ancestry characters. Unless my survey was an outlier...

I recently turned 50, and most of my gaming group are around the same age. We've started to talk seriously about retirement, and how few of us are terribly interested in remaining in our home state. If we can coordinate it, we've talked about moving to the same town, perhaps the same...

Slow Natural Healing. It's my standard because I can't stand the default rules. Crit variants, including some we saw in the earlier packets (I'm a fan of granting inspiration on a natural 1), as well as things like the initial damage roll being maximized.

I still reserve the right to believe it when I see it! If the UA team ran a pizza shop, their motto would probably be “What’s so great about hot pizza any way?”

The video link now says it has been removed. I hope those people didn't already spend any money they expected to win from those bets...

While I suspect they planned to release this week, something must have derailed them. It seems unlikely it will be released today, which is a shame because a long weekend is a perfect time to give folks a chance to review it. As far as MM testing, I doubt we'll see much there for stats, I...

I got the survey yesterday. I thought there were some interesting ideas in there. Some obviously appeal to me more than others (adventures, bestiary), but I didn't really hate any of the ideas. Commenting on pricing is really tough, because it's hard to say without actually seeing what they...

I'd kind of forgotten about that, and while it was confusing to me at the time, I think a version of that could be reimplemented now. Keeping to the current baseline, your could have Combat rounds (6 seconds), Exploration rounds (1 minute, or 10 combat rounds--though I could see the case for 10...

Slow natural healing from the DMG (I just can't get behind full healing after an 8 hour nap).

While some of their missteps have warranted the responses, I completely agree that there seems to be way too much outrage for outrage's sake toward WotC. It seems like some companies and you tubers are being opportunistic--I bet Paizo started their plans to make a new Pathfinder the day the OGL...

I haven't given this a ton of thought, but what if they designed the psionic class (whatever it's called) to be a full blown 4e structured class, with a couple of at-will powers, one (at first) power that recovers on a short rest, and one on a long rest. I always saw the warlock as a sort of...

Of course, minmaxers gonna minmax, but I think there are ways to manage it. They would just need to set up some sort of guidelines, particularly for future books that add species, something like "always (or never) include the darkvision" or "limit magic to cantrips" or whatever. I think a lot of...

I agree that the "Half" in the name is a problem, but I feel like they can just come up with a better name... elfkin or orcling, or whatever. Have a list of options and have folks vote. Personally, I think every species should have a section for blended ancestry that lists what traits would...

I think the point on Eberron's handling on half-elves is spot on. Personally I think the best way forward is to handle it the way they did with Eberron and just give both species a less problematic name--obviously Khorovar wouldn't work outside Eberron because it's based on the continent where...