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🤷‍♂️ You're using trademarked and copyrighted terms to make money. This feels a lot like making a TV show or film—even a fan film—which would be a legally grey area. Even when not monetized. Which most Twitch streams would be, as you're getting money from subscriptions. And most streamers...

I keep saying I'm done with message boards (they just trigger me emotionally and make me depressed) but this news is just too much and I need to vent somewhere... Reading the reports and leaks, to me it feels like this is a move from either Hasbro or the upper management at Wizards of the Coast...

Nice to know my feelings don't matter. Taking a screenshot of this to remind me and give me that final bit of encouragement the next time I'm in an emotional valley.

That's a bit of a different time as the game was only 15-ish years old when they were doing Planescape and Spelljammer and Dark Sun. The 40-somethings playing were people who started in their 30s, and the 24-year-olds were people who started when they were 10. I'm not "looking to leave" but...

When was the last time they did a compilation or update of old adventures? How respectful of the past was Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft? You can notice how they switched sharply from nostalgia and respect for the past to “continuity doesn’t matter, the only think canon is the current...

And would you have felt comfortable inviting those 40yo back to your place to continue the game? Would you have felt comfortable going into their house?

Finding a group or new players is always hard. But my point is it’s even harder when you’re not playing the current edition. When 6e comes out, finding a 5e group will be that much more challenging. Which makes the argument that one can just “find a game you do like” falls flat. (I have lots...

Not really. Because the target audience of 5th Ed was “D&D players.” It embraced and encouraged everyone to play. I remember a good mix of ages playing organized play. It was generational. Now WotC is telling us “Hey, thanks for saving the game and keeping it alive. We appreciate your service...

I think the problem with this statement is the farther you are from the current edition, the harder it is to find people to play with. Just finding people you mesh with to play 5e can be hard; 3.5e or 2e are even more challenging. And if you find some niche indie RPG or OSR game then you better...

There's a finite number of new players. Sales should plateau eventually. Especially as people decide they have enough books. 6e will be a hard sell for many, who might still be enjoying 5e and feel less need to switch for minor mechanical tweaks: no edition has a 100% conversion rate...

To some degree. I think there's also a lot of critics online—especially Twitter—who hate D&D because it's the big popular RPG and invent reasons to justify their dislike. But aren't going to stop hating D&D if it gets rid of slavery or NPCs with a lisp. And there's something disingenuous (maybe...

There's a certain amount of irony in how, both times D&D has become a burgeoning pop culture phenomena, it has responded by heavily sanitizing the game. Removing various degrees of "objectionable material" in an attempt to appease some theoretical audience that they hope will flock to the game...

In fairness, you have a Kickstarter that was a hair less than a million dollars—more than any Kickstarter by Nord Games, Kobold Press, or Green Ronin—making EN World probably one of the top twenty-five RPG publishers in the industry and one of the top ten most successful 5e 3rd Party Publishers...

Funko has been doing D&D Pops for a couple years now, and next February they're doing Vecna. Available at GameStop. It's a very different look for Vecna, who previously appeared less... Thanos. He was most recently found on a Magic the Gathering token: There's some similarities between...

For publishing in a commercial sense, absolutely. For a fan sharing their homebrew freely with the internet, maybe not. There's nothing in the core books about the SRD and OGL. Or even about the DMsGuild. (And the whole point of the DMsGuild is that you don't need to worry about the OGL or...

That's getting a bit pedantic. No, you don't literally sign it. Nor do you sign the terms & conditions when you click a box. I was using "sign" in a figurative sense to describe formally agreeing to the licence in a clear and demonstrable way. You have signed the document, clicked the...