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I've discovered AI image generation as side new hobby. It's a lot of fun!

Ther is no point trying to pretend that generative AI doesn't deliver any value. There is a lot of value to be had from producing something that is worse than the best humans can do, but having it ready vastly faster and cheaper.

Those examples aren't about balance.

It's already way more balance errata than we saw in all of 5e. Whether that's good or bad is up to you, but it's undeniably different from before.

I find it interesting that for 5.5 there's extensive errata to fix balance issues, while for 5e they explicitly avoided that and instead almost only published errata to fix actual errors in the text. Are we heading back to the times of 4e, and in 3 years there will have been so many rules...

AI models do not contain the complete text of the works they have been trained on. That would be physically impossible given that commercial Large Language Models are trained on trillions of words yet only require as much disk space as billions of words. These models encode the concepts, the...

Just because someone is new to the hobby it doesn't mean they lack the basic skills. They are quite capable of hating change just as well as grognards.

No, your shed belongs to @Morrus. You should have read the ENworld user agreement more carefully.

They switched from tactical real-time-with-pause like the original Baldur's Gate games in DA 1 to a button mashing arcade style system in DA2.

Impressive that one person lasted 28 years at WotC without ever getting laid off.

Citation for that? AFAIK they have been in good shape financially since the success of Divinity Original Sin. Of course if BG3 had failed they would have been in trouble, but that's just the reality of independent game dev, you're always one failed game away from bankruptcy.

I don't think it's particularly rational to not consider the wider impact of one's actions.

What is the last WotC screwup you did care about?

It's obvious that D&D Beyond was not from the outset designed to support multiple versions of D&D, and I bet that anyone on the team that suggested they refactor the code to support both 5e and 5.5 during the OneD&D period would have been told to instead work on something that had immediate...

Just make them 1st level spells.

What changed is that the gaming public's response to the Sigil beta was a big fat "meh". So wotc has surely realized that the market for a 3d VTT is way smaller than they expected, and no amount of improving Sigil is going to get them a user base large enough to sustain the project financially.

You'd think the best solution would be to leave the color of the dragon up to the player.

Despite substantial functional overlap, the monk's Bonus Unarmed Strike and Flurry of Blows are two entirely separate abilities. There is no reason to assume that the armor restrictions on Bonus Unarmed Strike apply to Flurry of Blows or any other monk ability that doesn't also specifically...

Nobody likes the old PDK subclass, so by replacing it with something new and cool you erase it from the game. If 5.5 wasn't designated as backwards compatible this move wouldn't be necessary, and they could have called the new dragonrider subclass something else, but here we are.

Ask a rules question here on enworld and you'll get people confidently writing answers that are 100% wrong, followed by a 50 page debate where nobody changes their mind and that eventually veers off-topic into an argument about how WotC is destroying D&D. Dealing with chatgpt and potential...