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People might say we are moving into a dystopia, but I'd still rather live in the dystopia of today and tomorrow than the illness-infected 1800s or any part of the globe during the Second World War. Because we never experienced the world that our grandparents and great-grandparents grew up in...

I'd be more interested to see who the players were that actually play in the 'zero-prep' game. I have to imagine there's a certain... unconcernedness... with how the game runs for those people. Ones for whom just getting together to hang out is the most important part of the evening, with the...

Heh... I know it was just a typing mistake... but I very much like the Freudian slip you put in here. Yes, it absolutely would be DUMB for a multimillionaire to throw their wealth into some fantasy heartbreaker to try and surpass D&D. :D

The point wasn't that D&D can't fail... it was that D&D can't fail and have some other game take its place. If D&D is dying out... its means all RPGs are dying out as well.

Even if WotC didn't walk back on their attempt to cancel the OGL and still went through with it, it wouldn't have changed Dungeons & Dragon's place atop the RPG brand genre. It still would remain the top RPG. Too many millions of people know the game and only that game... and have no idea that...

Yes it does. We've had 50 years of the roleplaying game being a genre unto itself, and 50 years of changes, adaptations, and advancements. Both in the tabletop sphere and the computer sphere. Innovation has happened again and again and again over all that time. Heck, the whole concept of...

No, there is no "fight" between D&D and Daggerheart. And no, Daggerheart will not "surpass" D&D. There is no legitimate shot in any sense of the word of that happening. Will Jeremy and Chris' expertise help extend Daggerheart's game and reach? Sure. But there have been countless games that...

No. There's nothing about what Darrington Press is doing that matches what Paizo did or does. They are two separate companies making vastly different choices.

These people exiting Wizards of the Coast mean nothing to Dungeons & Dragons. We've seen the same thing happen time and time again (especially after new core book releases)... and if D&D is still as popular and is played as often as it is right now even after layoffs following 2E, 3E, 4E, 5E...

But then you have the same problem with players having no idea where to find the monster they want because they do not yet know what the monster's "creature type" is. I mean, what is the type of a Displacer Beast? Does every single one of us know off the top of our heads? If not... then we...

The only people who care about how games "rank" against each other are folks like us around here who have no financial stake in the games... only our own egos wanting the games we prefer to be the "popular" ones. As though it legitimizes our opinions as being correct. No one who actually...

Not having ads broadcast after every single song/video is played I'm sure for one. ;)

I mean that's what games like Champions and Mutants & Masterminds do. One mechanical system that you can use to build any character you want and can fluff it any way that you want. But they also have "classes" to a certain extent, which are just pre-made and pre-bought hero concepts (like the...

Sure they do. The Battlemaster is a swordmage. But the designers just chose to fluff the magic as "combat maneuvers". ;) Someone wants a gish? Just refluff all the combat maneuvers as magical effects rather than combat actions. Because at the ends of the day that's all any of these game...

Just for funsies a little while ago I did my own "What would the game look like if we removed Constitution?" write-up... and substituted 'Perception' as the CON replacement ability. So the third physical stat was now all the sensory (and extra-sensory) organs taking in information, and thus I...

I just saw on ex-Twitter that D&D Beyond announced in their new update that they have now added checkboxes on the first page of the character creator to allow you to enable or disable the five different options of rules sources-- the 2024 Core Rules, the 2014 Core Rules, Expanded rules, Legacy...

If this is such a simple and elegant solution, then why did you bother coming here to make a thread just to tell us that your player was bummed about it? Cause that doesn't sound like the solution worked. Which means it wasn't simple and elegant at all. I mean if the point of the thread was...

Traditionally, the staff of a just-released set of core books tends to leave upon the books' publication (either voluntarily or with a staff lay-off within the next year or so). We then see a turnover in new employees come in to shepherd the new game forward for quite a while, and then maybe in...

There are no rules specific to this situation. Probably because this is a prime "Rulings, not rules" area where there's no reason for WotC to make a hard and fast choice for everyone when each DM can make the decision on their own.

That is true. But I suspect people might question-- were you in this same situation as @ECMO3-- whether "testing the system" was a more important thing than letting your player have fun and be happy? Now granted, in your current situation I would imagine your players are all in with you on...