Search results

Ahh, a 6th edition with good Christian conservative values... ;)

There are plenty of entities interested in purchasing D&D. The problem is, none of them is willing to pay even close to what Hasbro would need to even consider selling. In conclusion: the only way a sale is going to happen is if either of these things come to pass: D&D fades back into...

I prefer my martial attacks fleshy

And it's novels and magazines and music and sci-fi television episodes and... hold on, lemme just link to the complete Wikipedia disambiguation page... :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent#As_a_proper_name

I played plenty of 4E and while the core combat loop was fun, almost everything else about the game was not. To me, 4th Edition shares a lot of design ideas with Pathfinder 2E. Both place an inordinate focus on the core combat loop (specifically to "balance" it) at the expense of pretty much...

Just wanted to clarify to people reading the poll that 55% here probably means 90% in real life. Yes, a disproportionate number of people responding will be the ones having a need to express some dissatisfaction with the 2024 update one way or the other.

2 out of 5. It's the same game that just tweaks a load of little things while not fixing any of the edition's fundamental weaknesses. The main benefit for me is I can start a "clean" 5E campaign this winter with no expectations of having to allow a truckload of supplementary stuff. The baggage...

I think the poll is very very heavily skewed towards those not upgrading. I would be very surprised indeed if the numbers after say two years aren't more like 90% upgrading 10% not.

This.

This was probably true... once. Now, I would think the video gamers outnumber the book readers ten-to-one...

What this idea needs in practical terms is for there to be written up a set of rules after the new rules appear this fall. And of course, the rules suggestions need to stand on their own, and not require any knowledge of how the video game works. (Most posts in this thread are incomprehensible...

The original Descent game was made by Parallax Software. There's also a very cool movie called The Descent. You sure you didn't mean to say "decent"?

Most relevantly, there is cash also on a table Larian sets up and runs for itself.

Likely because they feel constrained by the 5E ruleset (and possibly WotC/Hasbro's decision making...) and want to make games where they can add in lots of splashy effects that just don't have an analog in D&D. The rules of D&D simply don't take full advantage of the fact a computer is running...

They would not want to just leave cash on the table, so of course. The interesting part is that they seem to understand how foolish it would have been to try to have a new studio understand Larian's code base in order to produce more BG3 content. It is the right decision to focus on a BG4...

This isn't the first time a technological paradigm shift obsoletes certain jobs, while creating others, and just like every earlier time, railing against it is simply an exercise in wasting your time. AI is so painfully obviously here to stay it's not even funny. Getting AI as a tool is a...

It sure isn't because of their reluctance to publish PDFs, that's one thing we can be absolutely certain about without going into details.

As long as these end up deciding to publish rulebooks as PDFs ;)

I don't think I can ever be overexposed to the likes of Margot Robbie or Stefani Germanotta

That's true of everything, and "X is good except when it is bad" is not a good argument for not producing X. Every rpg company should produce PDFs, and those that don't want to use them can avoid them.