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It somewhat depends, but in general I like when adventures sketch out the intended results when the PCs are completely successful, when they're partially successful but did not fail, and when they fail at their primary task. This often comes under a heading of "Wrapping Up" or "Future Hooks" or...

Something that fixes the balance issues with feats (which they basically did) and spells (which I doubt they will adequately touch) Something easier to prep for or easier to run ad hoc Something exciting That's in order from most likely to least likely. The one thing that the playtest has been...

Sure, but if it wasn't in the public playtest and it later becomes a point of friction, then it's hard to argue that it was well tested.

Feats were never publicly playtested as finally written, if my old packets are complete. GWM let you auto-crit for -5 to hit. Sharpshooter (under a different name) gave you an extra attack but all attacks that round were at -5. Yes, both of those are awful designs, but that's kind of the point...

I voted for it, but honestly I think the word "true" is doing way too much work in "I would like a true Gish." It always feels like what the Gish hardliners want is exactly the AD&D Fighter/Mage, without ever giving up the idea that the character is never more than 1 level behind a single-class...

It seems to me that because RPGs (TTRPGs) blend both games and narratives, that it should follow that any criticism should similarly use both game criticism and narrative criticism to arrive at style of play criticism. I don't think most TTRPG criticism really does that. I think most of it tries...

That, too, but that's not the only thing that happened. It's certainly not the tack of the forum discussions I remember from back then. But I remember 4e being criticized for being WoW just like I remember 3e being criticized for being Diablo. I vaguely seem to recall 2e AD&D being criticized...

I guess I'm confused. Microtransactions are already here.

I don't agree. 1984 was wildly different. The game was totally unknown to parents and entirely something nerds and geeks played. In 1984, the pushback against D&D was external. It was the Satanic Panic triggered by the McMartin preschool trial. It was an external group labelling all TTRPGs as...

Personally, I'd rather they remain together until Hasbro announces the license for OneDND. Until they do that, the future of third party D&D content is an unresolved question.

No, I don't agree. I think it's extremely easy to occasionally arrive at whack-a-mole by error on the part of the PCs or the DM, or -- probably most likely -- though accident thanks to the fact that the dice are really high variance in D&D. And I think that the high variance of the dice means...

I think it's okay if you're doing it because you're having whack-a-mole problems. But if you do, you really can't complain that the PCs want to immediately long rest once it has happened instead of pushing ahead through the rest of their daily budget. It definitely pushes the game away from both...

In 2e AD&D's Al-Qadim there was the spell Unleash Monolith, an 8th level spell that takes a day to cast and summons a gigantic 36-48(?) HD uncontrolled elemental which cannot be dispelled or banished. The elemental is nearly mindless, too, so all it does is lash out and destroy things. I don't...

Because atoms as we known them don't exist. Everything on the prime planes is composed of a mixture the four base elements. Those things given the power of life and growth are animated by the power of the positive energy element, while those given the power of death and decay are animated by the...

Carrion Crawler is one of the specifically claimed Product Identities in the OGL 1.0a SRD v5.1, so I would question that being in the public domain. It's a pretty weak name, but it's probably protected. Couatl is the Aztec name for a day of the week, also meaning serpent or twin. Death knight...

I guess that's fine, but I don't typically see a reason to have more than 2 short rests per long rest. Typically more than that is either irrelevant, or an example of a Warlock player trying to do something frustrating and stupid. I guess the real question is: What outcome are you trying to...

Well, I just meant that Matt had specifically been clear in the Tuesday stream that he meant that style. That sounds like Matt. He gets excited to talk about things, but has enough sense to check himself. Usually. It could be anything from a new artist, an agreement to do models, new designer...

I still don't trust them. My interest in D&D is at an all-time low. At this point I feel like Rhett Butler. I just don't care. I'm very excited to see what Kobold, MCDM, and Pelgrane Press come up with this year.

On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, GW has historically been pretty consistently anti-customer. To the extent that the community jokes about how badly they've been abused. With WotC this all felt like a big change! When I read about the reasoning behind Age of Sigmar, I felt more like...