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More just clarifying that something like oozes or skeletons aren’t gong to point out a hidden foe.

This is a common sense/ logic ruling. The question is really, if one creature knows the space an enemy occupies, does every allied creature? If you allow your PCs to tell other PCs the exact square of an enemy between turns then it only seems fair enemies can do the same. If you only allow...

Spider-Man sold 9 million copies for the PS4. Assuming an average ticket price of $10, Endgame would have sold 85 million tickets in the US alone. At it’s peak, the Marvel Ultimate Spider-man cartoon had a quarter of a million viewers. So Marvel has “fans” in a range of somewhere between 94...

WotC also wants the biggest number. So they likely just tracked anyone who has every played a D&D game, tabletop or digital. That 40 million isn’t the number of current players... If Marvel were to do the same you can bet they’d include comic sales but also video games, TV views, and movie...

No way to tell. Because do you include people who just watch the movies but have never read the comics? Kids who only watch the cartoons or play with Lego Batman? You’d have to define “fan” first and that inevitably leads to gatekeeping....

This could be really good for Paizo. I'm sure there are a lot of people curious about PF2 and a free online convention might attract them to test the game. It's not a lot of time to plan though. And I don't recall seeing any Pathfinder Society modules on Roll20 and it would be irritating of...

The market is less different than you would think... For super hero comics, the best selling comic will sell <175,000 copies, with most being <100,000 copies. Heck, when you chart the top ten books sold each month, the bottom couple are generally close to 50,000 copies. If there were a million...

I think they held off announcing D&D Live 2020 to see what was happening. Their regular late announcements for the live events pissed me off in December/ January—as I wanted to buy airfare and hotel early—but now seems like a smart move: you don't need to cancel an event that hasn't been...

I don't think they planned on three back-to-back settings either. It was probably planned to be Eberron, reprint adventure, Theros, new adventure. Until chatting with Matthew Mercer and them deciding to work together. I think the setting market is saturated because most people run homebrew and...

The D&D team seems to do two high-energy books a year, typically an adventure and an accessory. Because it takes a long time to write and develop an adventure: Chris Perkins can't do two a year. And so there's often a low-energy repring in the Spring following the big summer storyline adventure...

Like Ruin Explorer, I'm using Roll20 and pairing that with the free browser extension Beyond 20 that connects my DnDBeyond account to VTTs. This allows me to use the DnDBeyond character builder and digital character sheet. That saves me from having to buy options on Roll20 or laboriously enter...

Here's the chart of active games by percentage on Roll20. You can see the sudden change in methodology in Q2 2019, when "Uncategorized" jumps and Call of Cthulhu having a spike when its editions are combined. But D&D still seems to be rising while other games (i.e. Pathfinder) decline. Which...

But didn't Roll20 also completely change how they gathered data?

Yeah, but it was also a discussion that was going on in 2016. Back in the Long-long Ago, before Critical Role and streaming events. It's probably a safe bet that 5e has completely crushed both 1e and Basic, possibly even combined.

Someone who was 20 when 3e came out would be in that 11%, but anyone who was 18 and in college would be in the segment below. Or got into D&D 3e in the year or two after when there was a surge of new players. The 3e era is probably better covered by the 15% that is 35-39. But it is odd that the...

Okay, "middle age" is probably 40+ and "young adult" is the term used for people in their middle teens to twenties. But there's no good term for 25 to 40. Other than just "adult". But that's a huge span of years and someone just out of college and someone pushing 40 are at very different stages...

I'm also curious about the statement in the article: While 26% of D&D's audience is 35+ compared to ENWorld's 20%, 40% of WotC's players are under 25 while only 25% of ENworld is below 25. Arguably, ENWorld actually skews old. Or, rather, middle-aged. Is there a way to get the demographics...

One idea might be fascinating people. Making them distracted and almost hypnotized by the bard. Possibly giving them disadvantage to future enchantments by the bard. Distracting Song. Cause people to loose concentration with a song. Or make a check. (DC 10 or half the result of the bard's...

Not really. A bard might have a Charisma of 16-20, so this is adding 3-5 damage. A cantrip typically does 1d6 to 1d10 damage, which is also 3-5 damage. And by scaling the number of allies it can effect, the damage also keeps scale. It's not comparable to cantrip damage when the caster can add...