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I6, which I assume is what ‘Ravenloft’ in that post referred to, the 5e version is Curse of Strahd

I don’t know, I don’t really see D&D advertising anywhere, the only thing I saw was for the movie specifically

they kept 3 out of 30 I believe, not sure why the numbers were that low compared to their earlier claim of 200+ developers. I doubt there are still 170+ people working on it however, I assume the three ‘survivors’ is more likely it

they did not keep three people around for no reason

that is a typo, it was meant to be an example for being partial, not impartial

the random NPC did refuse it because they thought theirs and their families eternal damnation was at stake, not because they might get roofied

yeah, give money over take drink, sure. As I said, if the guy kills you otherwise anyway, I am not so sure you do have much to lose by taking the drink though. Might as well give that a shot, maybe he is just crazy enough that it actually is just some alcohol and he just was very insistent...

it probably is in that my tastes and preferences matter a lot in that regard. I am not blaming WotC for not releasing stuff I am interested in, all I am saying is that the announced products are not interesting to me. Had they announced others, those others could have been of interest to me. I...

my point is more than I am not opposed to buying D&D on principle, as @TheSword suggested. I would buy them if they interested me, this batch simply does not. By no means am I saying that it therefore cannot be of interest to anyone else or that they are obligated to create something I am...

what if they asked for your money? Pretty sure I would take the drink, I do not have much to lose in the situation by taking it anyway…

keep telling yourself that, the only ones that I had initially ruled out were the dragon adventures and Eberron books, and I was interested in the starter set. The FR books were more wait and see, which I would not call excitement. I regularly buy D&D books that interest me, the last ones were...

yes, but the premise was that the decision was not impartial to begin with (“If a GM is railroading and the players make an attempt to overcome an obstacle that follows the rails and the GM decides that it automatically succeeds, is that not still a railroad?”)

At this point, none. I was slightly interested in the starter set despite being based on Keep on the Borderlands (a decidedly bad adventure, esp for the current incarnation of D&D), but from what I have seen it is more board-gamey than what I would want. I will keep an eye on it, but right now...

but in a smaller / shrinking market. If Kobold Press and other 3pps can survive despite WotC, I do not see why Paizo would not be able to. They already converted two APs, I assume we will see more if those worked out for them

why would they wait with that until 5e is bagged, the time to do this would be right now

I would agree with not the goals of the DM, the player goals should factor in A player wants to climb a wall and the DM calls for a check, how is the outcome not based on the player’s goal? The impartial part is hopefully the DC and definitely the roll as much as if the DM decided it would...

not really, since they canned it first

It’s not that unheard of, it’s basically an early module in the Hickman revolution that moved the game from dungeon crawls that were more or less nonsensical (funhouse…) to actually having a plot and villains with motivations

none, there would not be a dominant game, which also means the influencer market dries up

we already have Level Up and Tales of the Valiant, so those two would benefit from this. If neither one is close enough for you, then there are all kinds of subclasses and additional classes for the actual D&D 5e out there already. One of those publishers might just create their own PHB instead...