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I do wonder about Hasbro. I believe their D&D stuff is printed in the USA, but what about Magic cards? I assume their board games and toy lines are largely manufactured in China too, because that’s exactly the sort of manufacturing that China does. They could very easily find themselves in...

Yeah, 50% on top of the 34% or whatever that was announced in the first round … that’s not just ‘your hobby is only accessible to financially comfortable people’ territory any more, it’s ‘your industry is dead’ territory. RPGs are probably better off than some other niches of the hobby due to...

Well, it could have an impact with stuff that is printed in (for instance) China, then shipped to the USA for subsequent distribution in different countries. People will be trying to find a way to prevent their stuff entering the USA at all if they can. Obviously impossible (barring...

I backed the aetherial kickstarter, and it went fairly smoothly and arrived without fuss. Ghostfire is I think based in Australia and that’s where I live, which may have affected things though.

That’s likely to vary widely in a case by case basis. What country was manufacturing done in? What proportion of the manufacturing was done there? How many times did the project or its components cross the border in the manufacture/assembly/packaging/distribution/delivery process? Which...

I know that’s the theory, we’ll see what the practice looks like. Lots of companies ship from China to US, then distribute elsewhere in the world from the US. Overseas buyers will certainly be hit in those cases. Similarly, I suspect that many publishers will be worried about completely...

This is kinda sounding like what I (in Australia) was afraid of. Obviously it’s early stages yet and there’s a lot of confusion, but it sounds like prices are going up across the board, even for material that’s printed outside America and purchased by customers outside America.

We might see a shift towards selling STLs rather than finished minis in the miniature sector, at least. Some producers (Trench Crusade for example, even Steamforged with the old Iron Kingdoms line) are moving in that direction already (though GW are by far the big dog in the yard and they...

Yeah, I’m not sure about the card thing simply because I store my rpgs on bookshelves and when a game needs extra specialised bits and pieces like card decks and nonstandard dice it just becomes a storage headache. I was going to have a read through the QuickStart at some point to try to work...

Only part serious. I find your explanation of how this happened entirely convincing, but if this sort of thing had just happened once in isolation, this’d be a non-story. This is just such an incredibly self-inflicted bullet to the foot. Sure, WotC contracts this stuff out to an outside...

I guess it’s time to reset the ‘days since Wizards did something miserably oppressively joyless and then claimed it was a mistake when it people started calling them out on it’ counter back to zero. Again.

Playing as a paladin - Bless to start with (assuming i have enough prep time that i can spare an action to cast it). Shield of Faith if i don't, or if i fail a concentration check at some point and have to recast. Higher-level slots get saved for smites (and sometimes instantaneous spells like...

In 5e, the commune spell description specifically says that it gives ‘correct’ answers, in completely unambiguous yes/no form (with an ‘unclear’ option as a dm get out of jail free card for a case when a y/n would result in a misleading oversimplification) Divination has always been a bit...

In D&D the eternal problem is spells like Commune. Doctrinal or hierarchical schisms are had to sustain when once you hit level 9 you can basically just dial up your god and ask for an authoritative yes/no answer. It's the ultimate phone-a-friend option. So you'd have to think about how the...

Historically I don’t think it was generally done, with the exception being the maintenance of sieges. You read about the 'campaigning season' and 'winter quarters' a lot for a reason. The weather is only part of it, the need to release your men to go home and help with the harvest is the big...

A Lloth cleric should get Web as a domain spell, surely?

The physical books aren’t far off apparently. Here in Australia they’re just going through customs, so probably another couple of weeks. I honestly don’t know if the pdf is out yet. I tend to wait until the physical copy is out, reading that is so much more satisfying…

I keep track of special magic ammunition but I don’t routinely require tracking of mundane ammunition. I treat ‘requires ammunition’ as a Flaw. If the PCs are isolated away from source of new arrows, and are using a lot of them, then every so often I’ll invoke the Flaw, give them an inspiration...

I wish I believed that. WotC has been paring down the amount of lore in all their products for some time now.

Except for broad discussions of the physical effectiveness of arrows vs armour, I'd suspect that the experience of bowhunters is probably more applicable to D&D-style combats than the experience of massed military formations of archers. You are talking about a situation where you're trying to...