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Now I am thinking about borrowing some ideas from Aberrant by White Wolf and "Brave New World" rpg. Has anybody played the "Champions Online"? I wonder about the great challenge for the design, the power balance. There is a serious difference between being a street vigilante like Batman or...

Have you tried any time to imagine a Birthright novel like it was romantasy subgenre? I would bet they are willing to publish a Witchlight book for children, you know, with colorfoul pictures and that staff.

Let's remember the spellcaster PCs are designed to spend the spell slots in a different number of encounters but an enemy spellcaster will cass all the spells in only one encounter.

The fun part about this is if we are talking about players being happy with 2024 ed or we should be talking about the brand be loved by potential consumers who don't know D&D yet. Maybe in the next two years there is a new D&D cartoon show, I don't mean a reboot of 80s show but a new title...

I miss the gladiator class from Dark Sun. It was like a variant class, like the ones from 3.5 Unearthed Arcana, or the archetypes from Pathfinder, and it was designed for a setting where there are't metalic armours, and these give too much heat in that weather. There was a gladiator handbook in...

If you want to nerf PC species with flying movement my suggestion is the PCs needs a Str check like a jumping effect. If it fails then the PC suffers a level of exhaustion to gain height. After in a higher level the Str check isn't necessary any more. Other point is if a character, for example...

Four arms mean to can use a shield, a single-hand weapon and a two-handed weapon. It may break the power balance in the lowest levels. But I would rather nagas with arms.

In 3rd ed the look was different. Now I am remember some old fairy tale about a fish what granted wished, for example brothers Grimm "the fisherman and his wife". Maybe different families choose to show a different look. For example when they are more willing to trade with humanoids they...

Some time ago I thought about how to create a d20 version of Cainites from WoD/CoD. Later my idea was to create "health levels" working in a way close to exhaustion levels in 5e. And my last idea is "hunger" 1-20 points pool. with 0 points the vampire is "engorged". The vampire can earn...

I don't dare to say the action-live movie was a failure. It helped to open some doors and audience could wellcome a second production. I guess before a new edition they would dare to test new ideas like classes with special game mechanics. If Hasbro wants more brand power for D&D then they...

The storytelling is wellcome but the players spend their money for the crunch. A decent storytelling can be done by other publishers, or players only need to read the rich mithologies from fandom wikis (books, videogames, teleseries..). Hasbro is more interested into videogame industry but they...

I have said it before and I am going to say it again. If your player-characters are in London during the Victorian Age, don't be close Thames before the 1858 Great Stink. The smell was really horrible.

I wonder if we should await the translations for no-English-speaker markets. If I wanted to buy the Spanish-translated 2024 edition I would await until the release of the monster manual.

I have read Chronicles of Darkness was cancelled because somebody said something about other country and.. then other person wasn't happy. The players bought WoD mainly for factions and crunch. This part shouldn't mean "only for mature audiences". Of course WotC could start from zero creating...

We can agree World of Darkness is the opposite of a family-friendly franchise, but is it Ravenloft, Innistrad or Duskmourn? A lot of players want factions and crunch (superpowers, magic item and like this). And WW has got some franchises like Pugmire.

WoD has been the closest one to become a serious rival for D&D, at least for a time. We shouldn't be too surprised if Hasbro was interested into WW's IPs. The History could be a good source of inspiration but I don't advice to play in our "real world" because if you dare to talk about certain...

I don't say Ravenloft 3e sourcebooks were bad but... who is the owner of the new characters created by the licenced publisher? If there is a new licenced, what happens with the continuity? Let's remember Hasbro's IPs when there is a new comic publisher. Let's imagine WotC creates a mon...

My favorite 5e sourcebook is Moderkainen monsters of the multiverse. I would like some other title with that style, a chapter about PC species and the rest about monsters. Why not about Kara-Tur, or the "Tablelands" (with creatures and PC species from Gamma World and Dark Sun). I miss the PC...

I would lie if I said I am surprised. Hasbro's strategy has been enoughly obvious since a long time ago and I don't blame them. The key is the coherence of the continuity. But Dragonlance and some other almost all D&D settings were designed to be the place of adventures of numerous different...