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Ineptitude and malice are not mutually exclusive, to be fair. There was a clause in the nuOGL that explicitly stated that the licence was not applicable to electronic products beyond static pdfs. If WotC had only been interested in suppressing digital tools and video games from 3pp, that would...

Historically ... it hasn't seemed to be that way. There's been many Star Wars RPGs as pointed out above. There's an official Marvel RPG (admittedly they missed the cultural high point of the MCU by some years). There was a LotR RPG at the same time as the movies were out (it was, admittedly...

The way I read it, Mearls wasn't saying Lucasfilm, he was saying someone LIKE Lucasfilm. Damned if I know who though. GoT was well in the rear view mirror by then. Maybe Marvel, before they committed to their bespoke system? Maybe even Critical Role? Regardless ... I don't entirely buy it...

Professional software developer since 2002 here. In (slight) defense of my profession, I probably should point out that software DOES somehow successfully get released from time to time! Looking back, I can only think of a very small number of projects I've ever worked on that could have been...

I very much like the Winter Walker. The Scion of the Three has some great abilities and WOULD be extremely thematic except that for some reason all these foul jealous gods are perfectly ok with you swapping allegiances between them all the time? Should be pinned to one. College of the Moon is...

The only one of those I’ve read is DS because I’m a huge Dark Sun nut) and I’m not a 4e guy so I’m completely unqualified to judge their quality. But the sad fact is that by the time they got into gear and started releasing good monster books several years into the edition’s lifespan, a lot of...

Here's the thread (warning, lots of sore-point discussion of sales figures etc) https://www.enworld.org/threads/ben-riggs-what-the-heck-happened-with-4th-edition-seminar-at-gen-con-2023.699181/ The relevant quote (the ‘tripled’ bit might have been a failure of my memory, but the gist is...

Good post @Snarf Zagyg , except for your vile calmuny impugning bards. (I shall meet you at dawn, choose your weapon sir/madam!) Like any event in history, there's many reasons that the trajectory of 4e went as it did (I'm not going to talk about success or failure, I don't think that...

Yeah, i noticed that, though I haven't read the books yet. Good move, if done well.

Ooh, a 4e retrospective thread! I hope I can get into it before it gets all edition-warsy or becomes bogged down in the useless hoary old argument about 4e vs 3.x vs PF sales numbers like all such threads seem to! Oh. Oh dear. Um. Aaaanyway. When 4e came along I was about 13 levels into a...

I dunno. It seems like a fairly tenuous stretch of logic, but I guess we'll see. Are we really arguing that there's two separate species, one fey and one humanoid, both called 'goblin'. Also, it seems to literally contradict the line quoted. 'When you're a player, you've lost some of your...

That's just garbage, and a dumb, shortsighted, destuctive approach to game design. So exactly at what point does a goblin PC 'lose their feyness'? Do they notice? Does anyone else notice? If my goblin PC has an NPC identical twin brother who he grew up with, was apprenticed to the same...

I have a similar PC in my campaign, a dhampir struggling against an urge to full blown vampirism. We handle it using a variant of the VRGtR Dark Gift Second Skin. Instead of just changing form, the change switches the PC to an entirely new character sheet (lycan blood hunter, in this case). To...

Not specifically 5.5 stuff here, but: think about your characterisation of Darrett. In the later parts he really annoys some people because he seems to tell the PCs what to do a lot. I’m playing him as very uncertain and lacking in confidence, especially after Vogler’s fall and the death of...

That's enough, surely? I mean, a creature's type doesn't matter now anything like as much as it did in, say, 3e, where it largely dictated whether you had darkvision, and provided a package of immunities etc, and (for monsters) their attack bonus, saves, hit dice size, etc etc. But if 'type'...

Goblinoids being fey is one of my least favourite Monsters of the Multiverse innovations, and it makes me sad to see WotC doubling down. But i'll accept a nil-all draw if this time they make the PC goblin species decent. It had some good features, but the goblin rogue is as iconic a...

The platypus is the last vestige of the pure and untainted natural world. Everything else is a mutated eldritch abomination.

Admittedly, the podcast really only covers the part of the story where Williams is (arguably) at her most sympathetic. And yeah, her actions DID probably save D&D/TSR from immediate destruction due to Gygax's mismanagement. Her tragedy is then that having done that, and then having kicked off...

The spell works how it works (not sure if it changed in the 2024 rules though). It's a 9th level spell, to be fair, so you'd expect it to be powerful. Choose one creature with at least 1 hit point or nonmagical object that you can see within range. You transform the creature into a different...

I dunno. With True Polymorph a wizard can permanently transform a rusty horseshoe into a tyrannosaurus, but they can't permanently turn someone's eyes blue? It seems like minor cosmetic changes should be a fairly natural fit for, for instance, a transmutation specialist wizard. It runs right...