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The discrepancy between the pie chart and the numbers is because that Top 10 only accounts for 88.69% and the pie chart is based on just the Top 10. So D&D 5e in the Campaign Percentage is 51.87% overall, but is 58.48% of the Top 10. If you dump those numbers into a spreadsheet, and build the...

I’m excited for it! I think one of the biggest issues they even admitted to at the time was trying to write the adventure while the core rules (and monster stats) kept changing. So one cleaned up a bit with stable rules and everyone having much more experience with the system could make it...

Exactly my point. Just when there’s a universal claim made like what “has always been,” there’s often plenty of experience to the contrary.

Not in my experience. Vast majority of the gamers I know started with zero experience as players or DM. Certain people were interested in DMing, others weren’t. So the DMs just learned as they went. Whether they started D&D with BECMI, 2e, 3e, or 5e, every DM I know started as a DM, not as a...

Is this confirmed somewhere? I assumed that was the case - that, at least, this product likely was subsidized by Target to keep the prize low but quality high, but I hadn't seen that officially confirmed nor that it was Target that initiated the idea. If that's officially stated somewhere, I'd...

Also manufacturing tech improving to be able to make high quality, low price plastic minis as well, I suppose. Back in the 80s, from what I recall, it was mostly all metal except for things like very low-detail Warhammer 40k Space Marine armies. (I remember my friend having probably 100+ of...

Fun little story: I decided to swing by and see about picking up a copy at the local Target here. I wasn't sure if it would be with books or board games or what, so I went to that general area towards the back of the story. As I'm starting to look around, I hear a boy's voice say, "It comes...

Having the recharge for spells built into the system for easier balancing rather than left to the whims of DMs and Players is hardly eliminating fuzziness and Rule Zero!! ;) He just mentioned having the recharge mechanic worked into the system. That's it. If the existing D&D system doesn't work...

Like most generalizations, it may fit my anecdotal evidence as well, but I'd be wary of making claims about standards and overwhelming majorities without actual data citations. ;) And if someone doesn't play that way, then why is it surprising that they might want it to work differently? I'm...

Depends on what you mean. As a DM, I don't have much trouble balancing it for my particular group, either. However, as a game designer, that variable is far out of their control. So when deciding how powerful effects should be that recharge on short or long rests or whatever, there has to be a...

Same here.

Haha! Well, I know some of my old AD&D books likely have a grease spot or three in their pages - although more likely from pizza than tacos. I do miss those high school Friday nights in my friends' basements and "everyone throw in for pizza and pop, DM doesn't have to pay."

THAC0 on it's own wasn't so bad (other than from the start looking a lot like a sensible system that was flipped upside down for no reason*). Part of the problem that, I think 3e did an incredible job in solving in an obvious way, was that the AD&D math was all over the place. To hit you wanted...

Pretty clearly there are several of us. Personally, even if the motivation behind the change was dumb, I loved that change! As a teen playing AD&D, calling them demons, devils, and angels was boooooooring and they were so cliched in movies, books, etc. I still get bored every time I call them...

I also just noticed at the end of the commercial, their real world clothes match the brief glimpses from the beginning of the cartoon - even the right color pants from the half second shot after their ride falls apart! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66n31vUeyI

Yep, I fully expect that to happen as well, just don’t know when. I’m hoping next year (because I *really* want Planescape this year). With how slow they want to be in expanding the crunch, I’d say slightly better odds that they would wait until after Artificer is fully released and see how...

Um, what? Releasing a mini version of the setting last year that they even said was the precursor of a hardcover, having Adventure League games based in the setting, and in just the past few months multiple playtest versions of a class deeply tied to the setting isn’t really blatantly...

Exactly what I was expecting, otherwise it would have been over 2 and a half year wait from Wayfinder’s to a full hardcover version. Seemed really unlikely they would do another classic setting first. Now, if they make it a regular cycle and this summer have a Planescape PDF and open it up on...

During the announcement, Chris Perkins said (paraphrasing) “You can run Lost Mines and then this one, or this one and then Lost Mines, or mix them up however you like. This expands the area detailing more places to adventure in.” So it sounds like your larger sandbox. :)

Might be a lost cause. Not all tissues are Kleenex and might even be someone out there that prefers to use Bing to google. ;)