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They get that sort of heads up for the official publications so they can actually have the content ready on the release date. :) IIRC there was even one case where people who had pre-ordered one book on D&D Beyond were able to access parts of it before the official release date, but I may be...

We'll definitely have to agree to disagree because in my own experience I have met very few people who have used homebrew classes, specifically, since that's what I was referring to. People will homebrew monsters, magic items, spells, etc. up the wazoo, but homebrewing an entire class entirely...

That depends on a lot of things. In many cases, I would push back against simply adding an engineer to a team that has been working together for a long time if the hope is that engineer will suddenly increase velocity to immediately get something out the door, although I more likely than not...

I want to correct myself here. They didn't fully support the 3.5E SRD until six years after the revised books were published. Not the full, paid set of rules but "just" the portion of it that was open. Granted, 3.5E is a substantially more complex ruleset than 5E ever could be.

If the D&D Beyond team had the resources at the beginning that they do now, and — just as importantly — the support of the people with the money, I'm sure they could have done a much better job. I think it's a tad too easy for a lot of us to talk about how we could have done a much better job...

As per Fantasy Grounds’ own website, the application started off supporting only basic d20 functionality, and it seems like it stayed that way for the most part until Doug Davison purchased them five years later. A key factor to highlight here is that Davison went in with the intent to expand...

Okay, so Fantasy Grounds was first released 17 years ago, right? So their product was "on the market" for 13 years by the time D&D Beyond was released? And we're surprised that a company that has been around for three times as long seemingly runs a tighter ship?

LOL That's typically what interns did when I was in college, but no respectable tech company these days is going to have interns doing menial tasks. If word got around at universities that our summer interns were doing work like that, we wouldn't get any applicants next year. Our interns want...

Also, let's put some things in perspective. D&D Beyond was first released in the first half of 2017. We hadn't even gotten Xanathar's, the first book with new "rules options", at that time. The focus seemed very much to be on big campaign books and things like new races and new monsters, e.g...

To be fair, the discussion isn't about how D&D Beyond should work, but about how it does work. :) You're in the software development industry, yes? So am I. You should know as well as I do that a lot of software development projects don't work like this (again, not talking about how they should...

All the people in here who were lucky enough to live near hobby shops that actually carried miniatures. I remember when the Dungeon! board game first had the plastic pieces and thinking they were cool enough to use for Dungeons & Dragons... and then seeing Ral Partha metal miniatures for the...

@Sacrosanct Are you referring to the higher profile departures from earlier this year, like Todd Kenreck, Lauren Oboe, and Adam Bradford? James Haeck also departed a month or two before them. Of those four, only Adam was involved on the technical side of things, being the CTO. James was their...

A member of the D&D Facebook group I'm in posted some photos from their recent game. They were in the middle of nowhere in Spain, and the kids in the group asked to play D&D, so the OP spent two days putting together terrain and miniatures out of whatever they could find. The results were pretty...

I'm not surprised by this news except that it took this long. They have quite the popular YouTube channel, and they are very amiable people (had the pleasure of meeting them at PAX Unplugged a couple of years ago).

While I appreciate the time and effort that go into crafting the large campaign books, as well as the production values of those releases, I really do miss the earlier days of the game when they had the smaller modules that you could buy for a few sessions of fun. I mean, Isle of Dread all by...

I think another thing that didn't sit well with me was that the way they were positioned and described in the book, it made it seem as if they were just some random mounts that the one specific group used, when dragonnes deserve so much more because they're so cool. <end rant> ;)

Nice! I had seen them referred to as liondrakes just recently, but I never thought to try to find statistics under that name. A retail release is definitely better than a stub in an issue of Dragon magazine. I'd say it's a little better than the neo-otyugh example I gave above since it was...

"Official" isn't the best word (which is why I kept it in quotes :D). The Dragon and Dungeon magazines are definitely official in the truest sense of the word, but I think it's a more limited audience and those sources are more on the obscure side. I think even nowadays, if they published a stat...

I don't think you've been guaranteed a complete set from a case for a few years now. That used to be the case, but even as far back as the Descent Into Avernus series you couldn't get everything from a case (this is from personal experience). The introduction of the A/B versions of minis really...

Oh? Cool! It's unfortunate that the creature didn't get a more "official" and widespread iteration in that edition, though. :\