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We might break this down in a more clear way. For the orc in a fight - all the abstracted events (dodging, footwork, and so on) that are resolved by the die roll happen between the action declaration and the action resolution. We have at least a plausible causal relation between the action...

Why wouldn't you be able to? What does time period have to do with it? Read a Dresden Files novel - those are chronicles of the character's adventures. You better, as "levels" are primarily a D&Dism. Most games don't have levels. Rephrasing: Can an RPG feel like a series of adventures if...

Sure. Note that you can get through the entirety of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight without engaging in any combat.

Maybe, but I don't think so. Yes, the 1999 market research data covered players from ages 12 to 35. And in more recent days (like, in 2021) we were told that players aged 35+ account for something on the order of a quarter of the player base. So, if we assume that held in the past as well...

Oh, and by the way - DO NOT ask a generative AI for legal advice. Your interactions with the machine ARE NOT privileged, and can be used against you in a court of law... https://futurism.com/chatgpt-legal-questions-court

Reviving an old thread to shout at WotC over thinly veiled politics is quite an unwise thing.

Mod note: Folks, this looks like it is becoming a personal conflict in which you attack each other rather than address the issues. Please dial it back. Thanks.

Mod note: Both of you are making this personal. You have a choice: use this moderation as an excuse to dial it back without losing much face (I am making you retreat, after all), or you can keep it up and we can alleviate the burden of you having to attack each other by booting you out of the...

I thought better of it.

It is a lost opportunity, much as ST: Enterprise should have been about originally building the Federation one planet at a time, instead of that stupid temporal cold war crap. However, that should be the job for an entire series, not just a final season, so I can see why they didn't do it.

Not all formats are good for all people. But also, this isn't an audio book - and no, that's not being pedantic. Just like not all books automatically make good movies without special editing, not all books are good for reading aloud. A decent story podcast is written more like an old...

A trailer for an audio-story podcast. What was confusing about it?

Sure, there several ways to pull off the trick. But doing so for the entire party at once may be more awkward than just starting a new campaign.

With respect, I don't see that. Nothing other than Feige's comment seems to indicate that is how they've considered it. So, I'd need to see some reliable citations to be convinced.

Not D&D specific, but I did just lay out a plan for a new campaign. It isn't D&D, but it happens to show some aspects of what I've been talking about. I had polled my players beforehand - they wanted a year or more of play (of our usual short-ish, weeknight sessions typically twice a month)...

Yeah, but that was a dumb idea, for two reasons: 1) The comics universe is moribund with canon. Trying to stay aligned with it all the time would strangle the movies. 2) What works in one media format does not necessarily work in another. You cannot expect to have stories with dozens of...

So, I know I'm replying to myself, but there's some expansion we can do on this idea. When a player creates a character, they likely have some core idea of who the character is/will be, or what the player wants to do with them. Maybe it is a matter of tactical powers, or theme, or exploring...

Why wouldn't they? We had an entire Loki series showing us how there's analogs for people across universes! If there's a block on seeing that relationship, it will be a matter of limited screen time, not fictional logic. I agree. It is blatantly obvious that the movie universe is NOT the...

I think it is more a combination of two influences: 1) Getting folks to commit to long-term activities is hard, and lives change over the course of years. 2) Maybe those upper levels of power really aren't all that interesting a draw in and of themselves. Character advancement is a draw, but...

Yeah, so, I can see that choice. The tentpole Avengers movies have a problem, in that they have so many characters in them, there's very little room to establish or develop characters. If you don't know who they are before an Avengers movie, you won't know at the end of it, either. So, they...