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So yeah, https://www.dndbeyond.com/marketplace/sourcebooks/mordenkainen-presents-monsters-of-the-multiverse?utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ddb_marketplace&utm_content=51622_motm_marketplace_monsters_noncontent Offering the features purely as individual downloads. Every...

A side benefit to Pro-GMing could be GM training/on ramping.

Possible ways to pull this off while protecting some against bad player feelings: Future version of the PC Alternate Dimension Variant Clone Beyond the bad feelings, trust that the logistics to explain how all the actions of the villain could be accomplished by the PC without them knowing is...

As a Forever DM, it's my observation that across all demos, most people don't DM.

For what it is worth, Pro-GM should be a thing. It's not going to replace the hobbyist model, only supplement it.

The second one.

Case by case for me. I actively encourage several elements, like decoupling stat bonuses from race. But have yet to have someone make a custom race build for example.

My definition of technology is more expansive. Any system is a technology that can be refined and improved upon.

Only quibble: Gaming technology also changes and advances due to innovation in game design.

I have to read for a living, so its a touch of a busman's holiday quite frankly.

Honestly, this is the heart of the issue. This isnt a demand for material. This is a demand for the spotlight.

Kinda a Ship of Theseus situation, under a long enough timeline. Mechanical refinement and drift inevitably mean that some future version of the game will have no mechanical connection to yea olde Chainmail.

Is it a market worth pursing though? As a 47 year old gamer with near 40 years in the hobby, my tastes are pretty diverse, but the "older gamer" who is grousing for content aimed at their specific niche tastes, are there enough of them to justify pushing past all the demands and complaints to...

Colour me intrigued.

For me, the concern is the acts of one or a couple of PCs. If the whole party wants to go ham and be murder hobos, well then that's the game for as long as I am enjoying indulging that gameplay. It's when one or a couple of PCs act unilaterally to choose violence that you really have problems...

I do think that, due to Covid, I am going to be more careful about games I back for kickstarter. Small publishers often have no leverage to aid them when manufacturing delays hit. I do feel "Kickstarter is not a store" cuts both ways, with creators needing to know that they are going to draw a...

While I agree, it is also my experience that people can fall into the trap of obsessing about how to develop the framework instead of applying the framework in a practical setting. But then again, one person's obsessing is another's focus. I just tune out when people theorycraft on problems to...

All this. For a bad analogy, this is more the physics of game design than the practical mechanics. Can one benefit by examining this? Sure. But one can also go down some deep rabbit holes of some rather dedicated navel gazing and not come out with practical applications for one's own game...

1st ed Bard.

So for me, balance in DnD relates to combat and how having 1-2 characters who are significantly more powerful than the rest of the party can throw off encounter design, most of which tends to relate to defensive stats like AC or forms of damage mitigation and the like. So as example, if say the...