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I think it was simply delayed because the employees who handle the bulk of survey reading and summarizing were being tasked with an additional OGL survey. Even if the OGL survey results are pretty irrelevant now because they already decided what they are doing I'm sure they're still going to...

I used to make that exact joke a lot. But at this point it's been 10 years, so hopefully I'm mostly recovered.

Generally in common law jurisdictions (basically the Angloshere) a will just needs to be signed by a testator (of adult age and with the necessary mental capacity) and a witness. The witness need not be a lawyer. In many common law jurisdictions a handwritten will does not require a witness...

I think my problem with an arcane half-caster in a 5e game is I basically want them to get to 2nd level magic quickly, which is a trove of Arcane spells that up a warrior's game, but am ambivalent about them getting very far beyond that. The Full-Caster, Half-Caster, and 1/3 Caster paradigms...

Well having Mythcarver fall into enemy claws, and being the MacGuffin of MacGuffin-finding, was a major narrative improvement, given that it's the vestige which, in the stream, became mostly irrelevant because Scanlan's player was just not really interested in using a sword. I don't...

It's also good, where feasible, to actually tell probable heirs what your intentions are, as well as getting them in a will, especially if you plan to disinherit someone who might feel entitled to something. It both makes it harder to challenge the will if it was consistent with intentions...

I'm a OneD&D detractor on most points, and I think there will be a certain degree of needless incompatibility (I guess because I consider the OneD&D project about 90% needless), but fundamentally, I've seen nothing so far to indicate that adventures won't be nearly completely compatible, or that...

There is nothing else in the whole of fiction which more demands a giant random table than the Infinite Improbability Drive.

The most surprisingly non-existent licensed rpg continues to be Mad Max, and while I can't say it's something I particularly need, if I was going to play a post-apocalyptic game I would want it to be a Road Warrior post-apocalyptic game.

Honestly I think a character folio with our adventurer standing heroically on one side and trapped pathetically in a gelatinous cube on the other in a pretty inspired product design. Really gets to some core truth about the D&D experience. It's unfortunate that since it is a D&D-artified Chris...

There's no reason for the Wizard to teleport to the party to simulacrum himself. He can just simulacrum himself at home and send the simulacrum. Or he can be a somewhat disinterested archmage who has cheesed the spell for infinite simulacra but is only willing to sacrifice one for this...

Healing Word's fine. I might view it as a problem if it was handed out to half casters, who where going to be using their action to attack anyway, but for the overwhelming majority of Bards, Clerics, and Druids (the classes who get it), using Healing Word vs. Cure Wounds still means that the...

So I think if I were allowing 5 minute (or whatever) short rests I'd just allow one special 5 minute breather a day, keep all other short rests at an hour, and not fiddle about with the proficiency bonus. I mostly like the current short rest regime, but sometimes the full hour undermines the...

Indeed. "Drow", as an evil fey spirit, is definitely public domain, as is the use of the name for anything else you might want that definitely isn't dark-skinned, white-haired versions of elves who live in a matriarchal, underground society worshiping an evil spider goddess. But there is some...

5e in some form is here to stay for a long, long time. It has a massive install base and is a nostalgic touchstone for a massive number of people who came into the hobby during the 5e age. The SRD being released to creative commons (and other editions not getting such treatment) makes in the...

I mean that would be a direction that preserved the "feel of D&D" for some people. But as someone who primarily came into the hobby with 5e, an edition which downplayed logical taxonomic relationships between the classes in favor of emphasizing each more as a unique snowflake, organizational...

I mean they could have an actual design paradigm, based around a limited number of clear, overarching goals. At present they just seem to be going for random changes, some of which they respond to community feedback on. I think they had an overarching goal "reworking the role of race to seem...

Fundamentally the fan content policies are just guidelines on what uses of their IP, that they would be within their legal rights to be jerks about, they will not take issue with. That said there is a little bit of a quasi-contractual relationship here in as much as uses that follow these...

I think it's a great idea in theory but one you have to have actual player buy-in for. If you try to do it on the typical "sure, whatever the DM wants, we can give it a shot" acquiessence that so many gamers will freely give to things they are lukewarm on for the sake of being friendly and...

Oh hey, 2 attacks as default also dampens the mechanical impact of all the "advantage on next attack" abilities. I think that goes in the plus column for me.