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They are, but I am guessing that some make a delineation between adopting the term for your communal and sincerely held religious belief system and in a corporately owned mass marketed table top game. The other issue that might be more concerning for WOTC in the long term are the parts of...

WOTC is considering removing "Druid" and "Shaman" creature types in M:TG and I imagine if it is on the radar for Magic that it is possibly being discussed on the D&D side as well. Certainly, if they think this is an issue in the long term, nipping it in the bud by changing the class name in 2024...

I thought the adventure anthologies would be more popular since a lot of people were asking for them, but of the last couple Radiant Citadel veered pretty far from meat and potatoes D&D into a magical realism inspired set based on a city in the ethereal plane, while the Golden Vault offered a...

The changes still haven't rolled out to everyone. It would be a really good time to push back and let them know directly if you don't like the new changes. It seems like every company in the world picked 2023 to totally destroy their platforms because of "undermonetization" and "engagement."...

20 pages of new magic items that offer bastion like effects that can be bought and placed in your stronghold plus two pages of stronghold rules which are simply costs for building (which can be got around by acquiring the stronghold in some other way) and maintaining a stronghold and its...

I would make three to five (increasing with level) really good templates but allow a druid player to choose any form they want from the Monster Manual as well that meets the CR targets. Just make sure that the template is just slightly better or the same as they have access to in the MM except...

If the selling point of this is that you can get avatasrs of has-been celebrities (Paris Hilton!, Snoop Dog!, former basketball player Dwayne Wade!) to be your DM, I don't think WotC had anything to be worried about.

It's racist, but I can live with it unless it becomes such an issue in the community that it is actively impeding people's enjoyment of the game or entering the hobby. We could always be one Polygon thinkpiece and subsequent Twitterstorm away from that point or it may never come up. Given that...

I think I have come around to the "get rid of short rests" school. That is probably new edition territory though which is probably what WOTC should be doing for the 50th Anniversary rather than the revision.

They have gone way too far down the symmetry hole with their subclass picks so we end up with niche picks like Clockwork Sorcerer there purely to balance out the Wild Mage, Clestial Warlock to balance out the Fiend, etc. If each class had 8 subclasses in the PHB perhaps this would work better...

Weapon Mastery should be stripped from PCs and simply be made Weapon Properties and then PC matial classes should get class appropriate ways to build on those properties. For D&D, I like PCs and Monsters to work in the same general universe. 5e already leans too hard into making them different.

I would rather have a leader/warlord/banneret subclass in the core book rather than an unarmed subclass that encroaches on the Monk which desperately needs help and is already having its lunch t taken by the new drancer subclass in the Bard. A proper Warlord style subclass fills a niche that...

Not a problem?

If they genuinely think that Half-Orcs and Half-Elves are inherently racist I don't think they would stick in the DMG to generate sales there either way. I imagine a lot of impetus for their removal was the long term effect on their business among recruiting and retaining younger players with...

Given how diverse the junior design staff is, I am surprised they aren't featured more often in YouTube videos and the like, rather than the usual assortment of white men in senior positions. On the other hand, the junior staff probably wants to get on with their job and not be blamed for...

I don't think Mike Mearl's Keep of the Borderlands review is particularly wrong in any sense. It is written in an "edgy" way that a lot of late 1990s online outlets like Pitchfork or alternative weeklies rendered their reviews in. I agree with him that outside of nostalgia that The Keep on the...

Is there any confirmation that this is still on after Spelljammer? Since they decided to not support Dark Sun from now for problematic content reasons in old Dark Sun, they were going to originally feature a destroyed Athas as the world you visit in the Spelljammer adventure to tie a bow on...

I am guessing one of the Wizard subclasses is going to be something other than one of the eight schools of magic that the spells are typed by. One of the difficulties in getting new Wizard subclasses over the 70 percent threshold was the slight drag caused by the identity of the class and...

I am not sure if you guys have heard about the GenCon Unearthed Arcana panel this weekend. Apparently, they had a huge OneD&D subsystem planned for wilderness exploration and adventure for the Ranger class to interact with that got scrapped for being too complicated. I am sure there will be more...

Step 1: Remove all feats. Step 2: Figure out how to balance the classes so they can perform their role effectively. That probably gets you to a much simpler game to start and since the PF2 feat system is really much more about horizontal broadening than vertical advancement, I am not even...