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You know, if an AI apocalypse occurs it is most likely to be something odd and unexpected, like in Charlie Stross's Freya 'verse series. Where the humans discovered that AI only really got intelligent in bodies and the original template need a training period similar to educating a human and...

I do not think he has a source for most of that video, he has one data point the price of a single ad spot on the stream, the rest is a mix of informed guestimates and some tongue in cheek speculation. This video is made to engage the algorithm, he has been pretty upfront about this in past...

You can do whatever you want in your game but there is another way to look at it. I am going to use Willow Rosenberg from Buffy as an example here. In the early seasons she is shown mostly petitioning some ancient god or power when casting spells and as the series progresses, she is shown...

Agreed, it is one of my few ongoing disappointments with 5e is the lack of development with rituals. I think more spells should be ritual, and some should be ritual only.

I think it has no choice, taking power from the player and removing the class powers is a lot like taking the players agency and really needs the consent of the player to make it work. Even if the rules were on the side of removing class powers here, it would cause strife at the table unless the...

This is one way to view the matter, the templar or warlock in the more general sense is a petitioner. In that they never have any power of their own and each time they cast they are petitioning their patron for the spell and the patron is doing the actual work. Another way to frame it, is that...

Is not the game called Exodus? the player book is called "Exodus Traveler's Handbook"

So!, about them UA Classes?

That is really unfortunate, I hope you have better luck in the future.

I kind of agree with you on the encounter building rules, especially in the 2014 version. I do not reference CR at all, I find it both incomprehensible and useless and prefer the XPO calculation method. I genuinely think (based on my experience) that after third level it should be hard to...

The OGL is huge here, in my opinion, (not that I always held it) but it created an ecosystem where semi pro designers get to gain a foothold and identify and serve niches that are not being served by the main producer and this made the D&D ecosystem more diverse and attractive to more and more...

Totally agree with you, it could have been something else. Being a first mover is part of what got D&D to this point. But if it never changed or adapted something else would have replaced it now.

I am not convinced of that, I think it has close to the right amount of complexity, it gives the more mechanically minded players enough levers without getting too much in the way of the players that want to work out of the box. It will be very interesting to watch the future trajectory of...

Out of curiosity what was the party size? I am not going to deny your experience and the only TPKs I have had was with low level parties right at the beginning of my experience of 5e but I think you have been very unfortunate. Particularly with TPK's at fifth level. At that level 5e parties are...

This may be true, but I think that mechanically it is in the sweet spot for a lot of players and GMs

On the animated shows side, being actors and where they are the have more insider knowledge and contacts than Hasbro or Wizards, which I reckon helps.

They almost certainly printed too few books

I there is a way to track it, I could see a huge surge in VPN usage in the US.

We don't really know, at least I have not seen anything like real hard data on the matter. What I have seen is Google trends showing increased search activity relating to D&D coinciding with Stranger Things and CR. It is a plausible theory but no proven. I am sure Wizards has the sales data that...

I never said anything about suddenly. In fact, I would expect the player base to experience a contraction as Wizard was no longer putting out material. But the committed hard core would settle on a clone, it might be ToV or one that Jermery Crawford and Chris Perkins or Mike Mearls knocks out...