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Given what I know of Musk and pals, I think the title should be "Cads Against Humanity."

The current (2014) chase rules actually do have clear-cut rules for escaping during a chase. They aren't good rules for escaping, but they are clearly stated. From the 2014 DMG: "If neither side gives up the chase, the quarry makes a Dexterity (Stealth) check at the end of each round, after...

The 2014 PHB already cooks my meal for me, so I guess I'm good. No need for the new rules.

If I have to tell my players to extrapolate rules that are implied but not stated, then the 2024 PHB isn't doing a good job introducing players to the sort of game I want to play. Don't get me wrong, the 2024 PHB looks like it will do a very good job teaching new players how to use the 2024...

Player: "Can you offer an additional class based on the 4e warlord? Here are my ideas..." DM: "Sure" None of which means the 2024 PHB supports a warlord class. The fact that we need the DMG to even know how the designers intended custom backgrounds work in the revised rules is one of my...

It doesn't say that at all. I'm looking at it right now. The 2024 PHB says, "You can choose any of the backgrounds detailed in chapter 4, and your DM might offer additional backgrounds as options." On page 177, it adds, in reference to a background's non-rules text, "Alter the details of this...

What Year Is It? If you’re planning on writing a Forgotten Realms supplement, time is your enemy. Wizards of the Coast is constantly releasing new Forgotten Realms products, and quite a few of them advance the setting’s timeline. No matter what you write in your supplement, there’s a good...

Plots and Rumors One of the main goals of the Forgotten Realms Trail Guide is to compile and curate setting lore from older sources, especially setting lore which isn’t likely to appear in upcoming releases from Wizards of the Coast. My objective is to present that information in a new format...

The Sidekick rules from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything are another possible option. Those should be compatible with the 2024 rules. They would require some buy-in from the DM and the other players, though, possibly including sidekicks for the other PCs.

Well, now I want a sequel to Aliens in which weather conditions produce a swarm of winged Xenomorph queens which descend upon civilization like locusts. (For thematic reasons, I'm assuming the necessary weather conditions are "perpetually dark and gloomy.")

You explained my point much better than I did. David is trying to claim credit for creating a life form someone else created for him. He's like someone taking an existing painting, running it through a couple filters, and claiming he's "created" a new painting. Although I suppose one could...

David's lying about creating the Xenomorphs. Alien Vs. Predator establishes that human-incubated Xenomorphs predate David by thousands of years. All David did was fiddle around with stolen alien tech until he discovered what it could do, but he wants to believe that's an act of creation. That...

My impression was that the weaponized black goo creates an entire family of parasitic organisms. David's experiments produced different parasites in that family until he rediscovered the Xenomorph species. Presumably, the Engineers had already independently discovered Xenomorphs by experimenting...

Blazing a New Trail When I started writing an all-inclusive guide to Faerun, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara, I included a lengthy section introducing the Forgotten Realms setting in general. That was before Wizards of the Coast announced it was releasing an official player’s guide which will do all that...

I'm considering changing spells like Spirit Guardians to be area spells instead of emanation spells. The spell's area is stationary by default, but you can move it up to 30 feet as a bonus action.

On the ENWorld news page, my browser cut off this headline in the middle, so it read, "Traveller Creator Marc Miller Passes..." When I read that, I thought Marc Miller had died. I'm glad that's not what the headline was actually saying when I clicked through and read it in full.

Supplemental update to the previous post: I've updated my posts in this thread to reflect the situation on the ground as of August 28th, 2024. (Namely, I don't want to call my book a player's guide, because Wizards of the Coast has claimed that name for one of their products.) The only thing I...

Great Minds Think Alike... ...and fools all think the same. Breaking news from Wizards of the Coast. They have just unveiled a previously unannounced product: the Forgotten Realms Player Guide, scheduled for release in late 2025. Needless to say, this throws a bit of a wrench in my plans, since...

Dagnammit. I guess I won't be using that title for an upcoming DMs Guild product after all.

This latest DDB misstep sounds like a bad decision made by the previous CEO working its way through the pipeline. And it it seems as though the new CEO dedicated resources to fixing it as soon as it was called to his attention. To me, that leaves some room for optimism.