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I'd bring back my old setting proposal from back in the day, polished with all the new ideas I had since then. Heavy themes of transformation, self-determination vs. compliance, soft power vs. hard power, relationships between mortals and the rest of the universe, and other perceptions of...

2E Arcanaloths cannot be surprised in the lower planes, so that's at least a minor callback. It would be quite neat if that was a location-specific feature.

It's all quite the departure from 2E, where they were popularized (multiple major named NPCs, etc). In 2E they were full on 12th level wizards with much more potent and varied innate powers including Shape Change and Telekinesis and an unholy strictly defensive poison for surviving melee long...

I mean, if you have to give them new abilities to fit the idea in your head... Mind you I'm not big on spellcaster monsters in general, but they are heavily spellcaster coded historically and this version pushes them into a very different niche than a 60' teleport, mediocre melee, and chain...

A warrior can pull out a bow, but their special attack is melee only.

Higher HP, 30' teleport is pretty much only good for melee repositioning, best attack is melee only, and all of its spells are basically defensive or generic utility. They aren't mobile enough to be skirmishers, they're best at melee so aren't artillery, they have no battlefield control, mind...

I find it deeply amusing that they are now essentially infantry.

I was planning on giving 2024 a shot despite my reservations, to the point where I had a bunch of homebrew stuff written up that I was going to try to put out on Drive Thru. Over 13,000 words written up before the OGL thing hit. Now I'm just done with the franchise.

Great Wheel is my chocolate, World Axis is my Peanut Butter. I prefer chocolate but they're both lovely and blend well in any ratio.

You can't be cool by caring about being cool. Being cool is about confidence and sincerity, which is unlikely for a massive marketing campaign. Popular is a different matter. The OGL fiasco was a major momentum killer for some people, as was the speculation and then reality 5E24, as well as the...

It's quite sad because it was a good read. All this mess feels like it belongs in one of the old sidebars to illustrate faction infighting.

This. It's nice, simple, and contextual. It's great how it gives you ways to reduce an enemy's initiative, too.

This is one of those interpretation errors that are a cliche in D&D. Any scenario in which a multi-square effect appears to have cumulative damage per square is all but guaranteed to be in error. That is not how D&D design has worked these last decades, it won't suddenly be true for one niche...

Looks like they cleared their goal, with a bit over a day to go.

The 3P Manual of the Planes was dramatically better than the official 5E Planescape set. I've read every non-adventure PS book and have been a Planescape fan since the day it launched, so this isn't a casual opinion.

Worth noting they have an early bird discount and everything is in Canadian, so cheaper than it appears at first glance for US folks.

True. And there are D&D groups composed entirely of famous Hollywood stars, super models, active military, or librarians.

Ultimately he's showing that either he doesn't have a common experience and/or he says false things about what experience he does have. A millionaire CEO is unlikely to ever really have an average person's experience given their position.

Thinking about it, I could see one way AI could have an impact: Helping indecisive and distracted players. If it could give them a tiny tiny menu of options they could just push the button on it could speed up play for some tables.

I feel that AI is unlikely to increase revenue in a significant way. The income of players will not increase. Online play already exists and is free. Gaming tools already exist. I do not think the market for AI DMs or players is terribly large, and it would compete with real gaming communities...