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This is, per your usual standards, both an entertaining and carefully argued, meticulously supported OP. Not everyone values the importance of a good citation; as a teacher, I can only say "bless you."

I've been painting up a bunch more Dwarven Forge terrain from the "Lowtown" KS and this is my first build using the modular dungeon tile-style of terrain tiles that were sort of a side project in the KS. They worked great for this kind of build! Plus, I also got to use some of my "sitting...

The friends and family campaign played again last night. Some of the players are from out of town and it is a bit expensive for them to get here (ferry), so we are only meeting once per month, but we've decided to add a biweekly online session. Which will mean more games (yay!) but probably...

That sounds like a game that only has one class, and just calls the same powers different things. Other than semantics, what is the difference between magical mind control guy, and charming mind control guy?

How are you being "penalized"? Having fewer options is a feature, not a flaw, for a lot of folks - I am currently playing a martial class as my main, and in general I have never much cared for wading through a catalogue of spells or other options as part of my game play. It's good that there are...

I strongly disagree that it is "broadly" seen as a problem. I've seen no evidence of that. I think D&D has done a very good job of balancing disparate classes, though as I posted above, if there is a current problem it is with the updated rules making martial classes distinctly OP at tier 1 play.

Latest update from Dwarven Forge on a current Kickstarter that I backed: Note that big "if" in the last paragraph. In other avenues (Discord and YouTube), they've also informed us that all shipping from China is currently paused, and they can't restock their store or complete shipping on...

I’ve read it - it’s good! He has a wonderfully down to earth voice, and his stories are entertaining. They’re not particularly surprising if you’ve ever worked in that industry, though.

My spouse is my favourite player!

A really good collection of D&D starter adventures; don’t care by who. My reasoning is that it’s the tide that lifts all boats.

Again, though, this implies that there should also be a bigger industry in Canada, the UK, Japan, etc. But if we do that, then everyone's books (or whatever) get more expensive, and in a lot of places they just won't be made. Free trade makes products less expensive. There are plenty of...

I can't comment much on top tier play with D&D2024, having only played through a single level 20 one-shot and watched a few actual play shows. All I can say is that in the game I played, no one felt like their class was underpowered or unable to make significant contributions. I have DMed a lot...

Can look at DDB data - fighters are the most popular class by a wide margin, and together fighters, rogues, monks, and barbarians are over represented. This is a pretty broad data point to interpret, but it at least does not indicate an aversion towards martial classes.

Cool - I didn't know that was a thing!