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Gotta love video game journalism. No discussion of implementation, no discussion of DLC strategy. The writer could have just Instagrammed himself making out with the game box and we'd all have saved a lot of time.

Well, I think long-time fans of those properties would say that they were delivering consistently long before they hit Hollywood like a bullet train (well, Star Wars notwithstanding), and I think D&D is in the same boat. It does deliver. The real question is, can WotC/Hasbro successfully scale...

Morrus, I don't know if you're right or wrong, but I /hope/ you're wrong. I like to think that at least a slim majority of people in our hobby do something more constructive with their non-working, non-gaming time than troll forums and social media.

Oh my gods, we've heard nothing /but/ Realms news. What the actual $@&%.

I am admittedly not the target audience for this because I've never been able to enjoy this style of CRPG, so take my criticisms with a grain of salt or five, but I'm concerned that the Digital Deluxe Edition apparently comes with the use of the beholder in dungeon master mode. ...What other...

All I have to say to you fans is good luck and keep your expectations realistic. I do hope they change the title, though. Nothing says throwaway spinoff like "Blah Blah Blah Legends."

In fairness, these days even total box office disasters make more than $20 million (and lose four times that). Given that this is a proxy battle between Warner Brothers and Universal at this point, I think we get the $100 million D&D movie either way. What Hasbro is concerned about is having...

If Hasbro and Sweetpea are not already in settlement talks, you could knock me over with a feather.

Hasbro is banking on brand visibility making people who would never play the RPG buy swag. I'm not saying it doesn't sound ridiculous to me, but I am not a marketing or branding expert. That said, I have seen humans buy a lot of stupid, worthless crap in my day. Best thread ever.

With the caveat that what follows is a dissenting opinion and nothing more: it was one page. In previous editions, entire hardback books had been written on /fractions/ of the ruleset that Page 42 replaces wholesale. It's obvious why there is such bile over this small point -- some people...

http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/dd-pyramid-of-shadows-reviewed.html Look under the heading "As for 4e itself...". This guy was a big proponent back in 2010, apparently, but that's not important. The important thing is the table image I would get in trouble for posting here. :) I...

It's not the concept I hate -- I think Rule Zero is critical to any successful roleplaying venture, including D&D5. If you used a lot of Page 42 in D&D4, that is great. But if I had been designing D&D4, I would have given you a bigger and better toolbox than a pep talk and a DC table. I think...

What makes D&D5 attractive to dungeon masters is not that it is "open ended" or "incomplete." The game is all there; the rules are all there. The fact that it is open to interpretation does not represent a lack of finish. Many complete things are open to interpretation -- this is why we have...

That's not entirely true. The vast majority of them came from /somewhere else/, even if that somewhere else was not another world. Even in the initial Fifth Age products, there's no narrative link between Malystryx and Dragonlance. She just /is/. Which is not to say she deserved to be Worf...

Wait, those weren't even Obsidian ports? ...What has Obsidian been doing for the last five years? Alpha Protocol, Dungeon Siege III, and the Stick of Truth? Yeesh. Good luck, Paizo. I make it a point to never frequent video game forums if I can help it, because they tend to be full of the...

Rather than derail the thread I'll just state that I disagree with you on all points, and would reaffirm my encouragement to potential Neverwinter players.

That's a shame. Neverwinter is actually a fun ride. I encourage anyone who hasn't to give it a fair shot. Was it Dancey who said WotC briefly considered paving a courtyard with all the Dragon Dice TSR had stockpiled?

Apparently Mysticism was too weak to be of any use until the changes wrought by Chaos after the cracking of the Graygem. Today I learned. My problem with Fifth Age can be summed up in two words: "alien dragons." Crap on a cracker, what an awful idea. Setting changes that big should not...

No, it totally is. It's all the article deserves. Urquhart isn't saying "D&D sucks," he's saying "Hasbro sucks for D&D." The article is poorly written clickbait. I'm not sure what this means. His goodwill comes from customers? I think that's probably apt, yes. In a nutshell, this is why...

My pet theory is that Weis and Hickman have been trying to quietly kill Dragonlance ever since they lost creative control in the early 90s. Much like its contemporary, Legacy of the Darksword, Dragons of Summer Flame reads like an ending. They kill /Tanis/ anonymously in battle, for gods'...