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One thing I remember reading years ago from people who involved in the Japanese TRPG scene was that how Western D&D is was part of the appeal. Like to the point where some Japanese grognards would get pissed off at D&D being presented with anime style art. It's possible that that's changed...

Oh yeah, during the Essentials days, they published the Rules Compendium, which was just the final revised rules for the game. That's an essential reference. One thing I should note with that is that over the course of its life, 4e got a LOT of errata. Like there was a pdf they released of...

I'm currently running a 4e campaign in Eberron myself. There a couple Eberron adventures written for 4e that I've run before, the intro adventure in the campaign setting book and Seekers of the Ashen Crown, and I think both are pretty good if that's something you're looking for. The former in...

You couldn't specifically pick those people out, but what you could do is focus groups of people who have no experience with D&D. Have them try to make characters or run a small one shot with pre-gens and take note of what speed bumps you see. Then make adjustments to smooth those out and try...

On one hand, I can totally see making changes for future players who aren't here yet, and that of course means they don't have to try appealing to experienced players like me. But on the other, why are they doing all these playtests and videos that are clearly aimed at people who already have...

Here's the thing for me: when they moved from 2e to 3e, they gave us a game that felt fundamentally different and gave us a new way to play. The same happened with the 3.5 to 4e transition, and again when 5e came out. I like having a variety of ways to play, and even if I eventually decide I...

I guess I'll talk about ones I've tried out: Ryuutama Extent of Experience: Ran a campaign for a while. Probably the first time I felt like I was finally getting the hang of GMing. Status: Had a great time. The idea behind this is that the players are a bunch of regular people going on a...

Do you think that they're really going to be making public statements while in the middle of damage control that haven't gone through multiple people? It's not impossible they're doing it incompetently, but it's simpler that a higher up just decided to deny some things and send it through the...

Where has any of this been verified externally? And like the AI DM thing is something some people actually want. Why would WotC make a post saying "No, the cool thing you want won't be on the thing we're trying to build hype for and monetize" unless they actually weren't planning on it? Also...

"We're planning to replace D&D's quarterly book output with opening a new medieval fantasy themed Chuck E Cheese every quarter." - A big important WotC guy. "I don't know why they're this big on pizza, but that's what the execs want." - a mid level WotC employee. "Honestly, pretty much everyone...

Yeah, this. And I keep wondering why anyone would risk their job to get some of this info out. Like the OGL 1.1 was something that threatened the hobby, the core game, and people's jobs if it passed as it was. I could see an employee or someone under an NDA thinking it was important enough to...

1) What is your favorite DND class? 4e Swordmage if you're allowing any edition, Fighter if just 5e 2) What is your favorite race? Any: pixie from 4e. 5e: Grung 3) What is your favorite setting (if own setting such as a homebrewed one, just write homebrew)? Eberron 4) What is your favorite...

The main reason I'm disappointed about this is that there's already a Dark Souls TTRPG that sounds really interesting, and this means we're probably never seeing an official translation. Like if I want to run 5e in a Dark Souls style world, I can just do that. But designing an underlying...

Most of the tools do still exist. Some 4e die hards have managed to hack together a way to get the offline builder to have all the content, and they've gotten every single power, enemy, item, etc. in a version of the Portable Compendium. I've been using it to successfully run and play 4e at...

I really like it when games let players get weird. Like the big thing that's been tempting me to get into Pathfinder 2e is that I can play as a giant sentient tarantula, a haunted doll, a cactus, or a gnostic soul animating a tree into a vaguely humanoid form. I'd love weird options like that...

You know, I wonder if this would be solved if each target could only have the "press the attack" action done against them one per round or something.

I think it would be slightly less bad, as the one target would still get advantage when retaliating against the others, but yeah, it's not solving the "why wouldn't everyone just press the attack to take the one guy out before he can retaliate against anyone" problem. Actually, now that I'm...

I do also feel like the range of Commanding Presence lends itself to situations where there's one main target you want to kill, but another that you want to keep away from the party. You can get yourself right in the latter's face, use a maneuver to knock them prone or something, and then...