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It's also entertaining for long-timers to see the same debates popping up every year or two and seeing how it plays out in similar and in different ways to the past. :) Personally, there's never going to be a one-to-one match since they weren't written with D&D in mind obviously. If a character...

Unfortunately, there's really no telling why. Given my experience with all the gamers I know, I would presume it's because humans are more "normal" and fits their concept and has zero to do with how powerful they are. In face-to-face gaming, I have met 1 maybe 2 gamers who made decisions based...

Unfortunately, there's really no telling why. Given my experience with all the gamers I know, I would presume it's because humans are more "normal" and fits their concept and has zero to do with how powerful they are. In face-to-face gaming, I have met 1 maybe 2 gamers who made decisions based...

Not sure if someone else mentioned this, but at a rough estimate (if my off the top of my head math is right), there is about a 9% increase in the numbers due to multiclassing. There's about 109,000 per 100,000 characters. So at least [-]81[/-] 91% of characters are not multiclass. (If there...

Not sure if someone else mentioned this, but at a rough estimate (if my off the top of my head math is right), there is about a 9% increase in the numbers due to multiclassing. There's about 109,000 per 100,000 characters. So at least [-]81[/-] 91% of characters are not multiclass. (If there...

If you've stepped away, that's fine. But I do feel like I should clarify here - you cannot be an informed consumer on every product you use. It is simply impossible. For example, at a quick/off the top of my head count, just typing this response on this message board involves at least 14...

If you've stepped away, that's fine. But I do feel like I should clarify here - you cannot be an informed consumer on every product you use. It is simply impossible. For example, at a quick/off the top of my head count, just typing this response on this message board involves at least 14...

Yes, absolutely yes. Quoted for truth. :) It's right up there with buying something you don't want just because you have a really good coupon. You shouldn't be mad at the coupon.

Yes, absolutely yes. Quoted for truth. :) It's right up there with buying something you don't want just because you have a really good coupon. You shouldn't be mad at the coupon.

Well, actually... 1) The feats are a preview of their homebrew feat system, so, like other homebrew, they will likely be available for free to all subscribers eventually. (The feats will not be AL legal. They have already said that.) 2) There is also the character sheet customizations. They...

Well, actually... 1) The feats are a preview of their homebrew feat system, so, like other homebrew, they will likely be available for free to all subscribers eventually. (The feats will not be AL legal. They have already said that.) 2) There is also the character sheet customizations. They...

Great article! Although probably the driving reason for the iconics is only very briefly mentioned in Eric Mona's quote - and that is to help artists. To have a consistent look and feel to the game's art, it is really handy to have an example wizard you can show to an artist and say "Use...

I wouldn't say they are "strongly premised on multiple purchases". You only need to buy them once. The only reason you might *need* to buy them more than once is because these other formats come out later than the original physical books. But that was certainly not WotC's master plan and a...

Exactly, and that's something buyers definitely need to be aware of. Caveat emptor and all that. To each their own. I'm sorry their current business methods aren't to your liking. On the flip side, I'm buying more WotC products since 3.x. Stuck with Pathfinder rather than 4e, and even early 5e...

One useful difference now, however, is that it's not product vs product, but distributor vs distributor. WotC is getting a percentage of PHB sales whether it is sold at a FLGS, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, D&D Beyond, this new Reader app, etc. So from WotC's perspective...

Cool, I didn’t realize they had all released their sales numbers, revenue information, and market reports. I’m curious how much Curse has made from the release of D&D Beyond. Do you have a link to that revenue information?

Umm... multiple news reports released simultaneously with direct hands-on experience.... you do realize that “Fred and Jake”* are the ones who actually made this into a story, right? They choose this time and this method to let the public know about their product, so it’d be kinda weird if...

You are relying on two premises which I’m pretty sure are false. One, from all descriptions of the Reader, I can’t see this costing “a ton of money” to build - and I say that from decades of experience building these sorts of things. D&D Beyond, Fantasy Grounds, Roll20 - those all took massive...

Back in *whose* day? I’ve been playing this since back in the day, and the DMs were just as generous then as now. There’s no right or wrong way to play the game as long as you’re having fun, and in my experience no two groups ever really play it the same way anyway. :)

We don't know the arrangement between Dialect and WotC, but this doesn't seem like a giant money sink (and if it's anything like their other projects recently, largely funded by the 3rd party - not WotC). Of course, we can't tell until we see the app, but from seeing Dragon+ and from what has...