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No one should be dumb enough to write a rule that requires a DEX save to end paralysis, yet here we are. ;) Proficiency in basic logic is not exactly common....

Most likely the designer had simply forgotten that being paralyzed makes you auto-fail DEX saves. I know I often forget precisely what the 5e conditions do, especially rare ones like Paralyzed. Perhaps we should expect more from someone writing rules for a living, but this is what we get. It's...

I can see advocates for Neutrality arguing that Extreme Good is a straitjacket, that the Good have no freedom of choice as they will always do the Right Thing, as long as they know what it is. This leaves them effectively with no free will, just puppets to their own alignment.

So Wizards are learning animals after all. Interesting...

You can just cast Mage Armor with a spell slot on travel days when you're not expecting to expend all your slots anyway, and only cast it from a scroll when you're entering a dungeon or other adventure location.

You can't copyright game mechanics, so if some megacorp wanted to make their own RPG based on D&D, Hasbro couldn't do anything about it, OGL or not. Unlike most RPG publishers Disney or Facebook has the resources to face Hasbro in court and win. I remember when the OGL was first announced it...

"Hey, we have this proposal here that will essentially destroy your business if it goes into effect, what do you think about it?" If this genuinely was a sincere request for feedback, then WotC's NuOGL process was even more incompetent than I thought. No amount of tweaking would have made the...

Russians, right?

Which minority groups identify themselves with orcs?

Ouch, that is terrible. With the 5e book if you want to design an encounter with a band of demons you turn to the "demon" section and choose some suitable creatures, but now you have to flip all across the book and try to find the demons? Who on earth thought that was a good idea?! I guess this...

Where are you fighting if you need to bring your own cover?

Great for generating Engagement though, which is what matters to most websites.

In that case the "DM decides if it is appropriate to hide" is completely redundant with the base gameplay loop. Might as well preface other rules with "The DM decides if it is appropriate to attack" or "The DM decides if it is appropriate to cast a spell".

It was common for colonial regimes to keep some of the colonized people around to exploit them economically.

It's TSR and Ed Greenwood's native country, WotC is the colonist.

That doesn't mean he's happy to see WotC destroy their version of the setting.

Probably means he's trying to limit the amount of damage the current D&D writing team does to the Eberron setting.

He also pays people to play video games for him using his account, and then brags about his "achievements". Scummy doesn't even begin to describe it. How you do one thing in life is how you do everything...

My impression is that for players who start with 5.5 and only own those books, fey goblins will be the only ones that exist.

Game designers are more like artists than business people. Unless management has them on a tight leash they're more likely to follow their own creative vision and then look for commercial arguments to support it than the other way around.