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I don't think it helps them, but I can't help but sympathize with them audibly/visually... maybe it'd be better instead to be the eternal optimist, "oh hey I'm sure a good die roll is right around the corner!"

I think the 13th Age 2e Playtest part of OP's post is pretty coincidental. OP could've said "DnD5e," the differences aren't huge as far as them both being d20 fantasy games, though 13th Age wears its heroism on its sleeve. Basically, the dice luck is crappy and how to deal with that? Ugh. I...

Y'all are trying to reconcile and/or argue gameist vs. simulationist design... it's gonna be a matter of where each person's preference falls on that line, but in the end it has to land somewhere on said line. 4e was very gameist, 5e sort of straddled the middle but as it went on it has gone...

It's a personal gripe, but if I need to exhaust the land's population of ancient dragons, or have half of the balors/pit fiends etc. slain in the course of the campaign... that's a big deal for the setting. I know "the DM will never run out of dragons" but that really doesn't treat the world as...

Art is subjective, folk'll have opinions about it; I don't love either, but I appreciate the variety and the artists' work.

It seemed very low-threat to the suggested party level at each step of the way. I'm not sure which first dungeon you're referring to- I can't imagine it's the Neverdeath Graveyard dungeon, that one has level 10 characters fighting wights and cult fanatics. I think the hardest part was a Marid...

Because it's a feel-good stomp-fest, and a GM trying to enhance it to be anything but is going to have their work cut out for them. WotC is capable of making challenging adventures... But EoR is a paper tiger.

Getting from 11 to 20 was specifically made very quick so that you wouldn't spend more than an adventuring day in each level, to give you a quick experience of high level play but not actually spend a lot of time in it, apparently because it's a PITA. It seemed like it was only done because...

There are guns on the cover...

I thoroughly read through the DMG at some point in the 2010s, I really wish that I had processed and absorbed the Downtime section- I completely forgot that it existed. Look at this friggin' thing! I specifically read it BECAUSE in a Dragon Talk ?Chris Perkins? said "it's full of great stuff...

I gotta say, for how disappointing the 5e Spelljammer book set was... the soundtrack they put together for its release is incredible. Based on that, I have high hopes for this (though I imagine there's no one/nothing in common between the two...)- are there vocal tracks? Lots of'em? I loved that...

I think the revised books were mostly just organizational changes? Maybe art. I could be wrong! I just remember our table using both back in the day.

DCC carousing tables are glorious for this- if you use XP, players can even get XP for their hard-won and easily-lost gold during carousing table rolls. Or features, other short-term benefits, etc.

The same could be said for everything in the game outside of their provided character features (that too, possibly)- but there are systems and guidance for other aspects of the game, less so for "what to do with loot." I'll say that 5e24, in providing Bastions, has given additional goldsinks...

I recall there being mention or rules like this in the Revised AD&D books, maybe the PHB? Didn't clerics and/or paladins have to tithe?

IME the moment you sell a magic item, that's going to be what the players are saving their money for. It's not every player, some of them will want strongholds for (mechanical benefits help) or even an A-Team themed war-wagon, but unless you literally say "magic items aren't for sale," they're...

Would you mind sharing these?

I had one negative experience with DDB which is unlikely to be replicated: it was a bug that prevented you from re-upping your subscription if your yearly DM subscription ended within a certain date range. A bunch of folks were locked out of their characters, players couldn't access content...

And yet while I have a bunch of terrain options, my favorite thing to use with my minis is a wet-erase chessex battlemap :D Cuz I can make it "whatever" with imagination and some colored markers.