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Or maybe it's that the feature was so poorly promoted that despite being a subscriber with an interest in its subject matter I wasn't aware it existed nor did I even quickly find it when I saw it's cancellation mentioned at the end of an article on WaPo downsizing. But at the real heart of its...

Well sure, but WotC would have to front the costs for the book and would see less of the profit. WotC maintains a limited (and within that limitation pretty full) release schedule of books to ensure they each have a chance to get in front of consumers' eyes and don't compete with each other...

"Won't even be noticed" is a bit of an overstatement, but I think the basic point is sound. The patronage of people who are actively engaged with the actual D&D game enough to be invested in the controversy is not necessary to power this movie to success or to keep it from failing. It's a major...

In my current campaign I included an abandoned adventurer's guild headquarters in a city where the party was going to spend some time, with the intention that after they did a few jobs for the town guard and convinced them that the town needed adventurers again they'd be offered the space as a...

My understanding is that there is an ongoing debate between historical weapons experts and enthusiasts on the one side and modern sport archers on the other about whether the "one true side to shoot off of" thing is historic or a modern invention, but that the sport archer argument mostly...

Certainly that makes sense. I just held out hope (perhaps a fool's hope) with the first playtest, that it was only as radical a change as it was because the role of "races" was the thing WotC was quite open about being most unhappy with in 5e, and that on the whole it was mostly just going to be...

They absolutely don't have to strike a deal. But as the best positioned organization to market a high profile not-D&D they would be foolish not to extract a deal from WotC. They may well actually be perfectly happy to stick with D&D and have no interest in publishing or promoting a competing...

I mean, obviously there's a lot of value judgement here, but that's not really consistent with what I have seen of OneD&D. At the first playtest the "5e PHBs and 5.5 PHBs at the same table with minimal confusion" scenario seemed plausible as basically the DM could let 5e players swap their...

Having done a lot of remixing of Phandelver myself I will definitely be interesting in looking at the official version. Buying is a whole different matter. Even setting thoughts of boycott aside I've been generally unimpressed with my WotC full-book campaign purchases, and had all but sworn them...

And see our gaming license fellowship shattered by Baromir's betrayal? I think not.

The Purvon incident was this episode around the 32 minute mark:

I mean Critical Role probably did innovate in terms of having a lot more people who are completely new to playing the game come in having already fully-formed ideas of what the one true playstyle is, whereas historically such ideas would develop over years of actually playing. But I think the...

I think the only way a particular clone wins out as one of the several possibly successful ones is by some combination of marketing (by which I mean, winning over "D&D influencers") and just being that "good" (whatever that means). Fulfilling a particular niche is probably also important, in a...

Clones, teeming in their multitudes, may not be as numerous as grains of sand on the beach, but it will feel that way. As I've said elsewhere even without this whole imbroglio over the OGL, there was an age of clones coming because a bumper crop of people who came into the hobby with 5e were...

That is unfortunate, but after the degree to which they felt the need to amp everything up in Wrath of the Righteous, I worried a 3rd game in series would jump the shark pretty hard. I think what I'd really like to see is some more DLC for additional campaigns in the existing games. Indeed. I...

Believe it or not, A pilot was filmed. For a reboot way back in 2018- It wasn't picked up or it would be on your screen. What were the execs thinking? It was tried in 2018. Which, to clarify the discussion, there was a 2018 pilot made, with a female lead, that did not get picked up to series...

It does seem like a move from the same problematic homage playbook as the "let's have a foreign guy where nobody knows where he's from" which I feel is much more a '70s tv trope than a '90s one (note: my knowledge of 70s television is, in the grand scheme of things, pretty negligible so I won't...

Well I don't think sitcoms are exactly a threat to the superhero throne. I think they mostly fill different entertainment niches. What sort of legs many of these revivals have I'm not so sure. But I support the trend overall (which has been going on for a while, but seems like it's entering a...

I actually had just had an epiphany earlier today for my low magic system with several basic classes that there should just be a class called "Healer". Not necessarily mundane, per se, but more of a folk healer whose healing isn't all so explicitly magical. I really never liked the D&D Cleric...

I think that would be a great approach if whomever did it started by asking what sort of things people actually wanted before going right into designing, didn't construct survey questions to avoid getting feedback on design decisions they didn't want to touch, and actually shared the results so...