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Not "defending" her per se, bit this podcast made it really clear what a Greek tragedy this was: Gygax put these people in a box where they felt it was fight or lose everything...and he was not prepared for the push back, couldnwven imagine it, apparently.

Ot isnthe first D&D Setting ever published: a gonzo take on a Lankhmar sort of thing, a bit Anlh-Morporkh in early Discworld.

What the podcast made me understand in a very visceral way, is how ever involved in those maneuvers basically felt like rats trapped in a corner thanks to Gygax's actions. Ethical? Maybe not, but desperate people will do what they can to protect their livelihoods and families.

Honestly, being tacked on and not well integrated is one of the main criticisms of the book (why bother with expanding on Lost Mines of Phandelver, but then not build on Lost Mines of Phandelver???) but for your purposes should probably work.

Almost certainly the announced Lorwyn book for MtG integration.

That means it is working.

Pretty much all of them: WotC designers have been on a hot streak, with only occasional hiccups, for a few years now.

So, I haven't been watching these, but the latest episode the Live play DMed by James Ohlen has a special surprise guest player: Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks playing a Celestial Warrior:

On the contrary, I think it had precisely what was needed to carry the game for more than 50 years: looking at what options are broadly used in 5E, it is still mostly B/X stuff. I'm not saying it couldn't be expanded, it probably would be (as Basic was): but the two boxed set game format without...

2E wasn't as much of a mistake, so much as 1E was: AD&D was all a mistake. Moldvay/Holmes should have been the only D&D product, splitting the game was insane.

Do they not work together? That seems silly, having Beyond do the conversion math seems like it would be easy.

However, History seems to have largely proven that approach was a mistake: we know that 2024 has already outsold the lifetime sales of the 3E, 3.5, and 4E rulebooks. "Needing" a new publishing to revive sales and refresh stuff that is dated (Race to Species, new art aimed at current styles...

What recent third party additions are unusable on Beyond...? WotC seems to have taken MCDM, KP, and other 3rd party stuff from 5.1 and just put it up as-is for mixing and matching with new stuff.

Maybe: I think more time makes further changes even less and less likely. There is no ROI reason for WotC to make those changes: future fans won't care, and itnwould tick off people who had been playing for at that point theoretically decades. I'm sticking to 2024 being the most radical...

The third party stuff going up on Beyond doesn't seem to be changed. It all still works together.

Thr PHB has been pretty well received, too...? Massively improved the flow of character creation, structurally, and the organization of information.

I would say that would make any such change even less likely: if after 10 years, backwards compatibility was a primary goal...after 20 years, 30 years...that will only increase.

Yeah, it doesn't make much sense: Call of Cthulu has been doing exactly this sort of stable approach for over 40 years, and is arguably the most successful RPG after D&D and it's clones.

You have, I have...but my 9 year old will get a kick out of this. And he is more the core audience than I am.

Weapon Mastery was a welcome change. While not mechanical, the complete re-org of the DMG is a literal gamechanger.