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I understand your concerns. The same thing can happen in a standard game however. It sounds like people were perhaps playing evil alignments. Many DMs don't allow evil alignments. Essentially what I am saying is that sounds like a problem with individual players and to some degree the GM not...

I am very excited for this book. Everything that was detailed in the preview (30 domains, the dark lords, the new subclasses, etc.) I am looking forward to. I loved Ravenloft back in the 90s so I am eager to see how WOTC does with the touch up. The only portion of the book that kind of...

I love Greyhawk and would like to see Greyhawk get a full write up and treatment like Eberron and Wildemount. I will speculate however that WOTC will not do that. I think instead they will release worlds that are highly distinctive from traditional fantasy worlds. I think this was one reason...

Well, my main group and pretty much every group I play with sticks to official material. Therefore while I am sure the Masterclass Codex has awesome stuff it will not be used by anyone in my group. The current Dungeon Master's would not allow it and to be fair (nothing against the Codex...

Yes it did. Also while I started playing D&D in 2E and not 1st I don't think comparing games now or rather what audiences were willing to accept in early versions of D&D to modern audiences is wise because game design has changed so much and competition was more limited at that time vs. now...

I voted yes because I want to see psionic classes versus psionics being a path for existing classes (though at this point I will be happy if we get psionics at all. Beggars can't be choosers I guess), and an official warlord class.

Whether the DM is weaving their own unique story, trying to tie together the various pastiches her players have created into an organic whole, or playing episodic games with no over-arching connectivity just a stream of individual afters that is creating an interactive fictional narrative or in...

No need to be confrontational. Yes. I personally don't think the style of game you are playing is fun. The fact that modern D&D seems to be more popular than OSR style games would seem to indicate this is a general consensus but no one said you are not having fun in your game. I did not not...

I absolutely agree. In a lot of old school modules and games I often felt it was an adversarial approach of the DM vs. The Players (which is automatically a slanted combat in favor of the DM) as opposed to a collaborative effort where the players and DMs are coming together to weave an exciting...

Fair enough. You like mundane fantasy with Joe average characters. That sounds staid and not fun at all but if you have a group of players that has buy-in on that (and I mean actual buy-in not assumed or forced buy-in) then that means you and your group are having fun. This is good. It is...

To each their own. I grew up playing "OSR" games and even back then it was house ruled with things like undead level and state draining being temporary returning at the rate of 1/min per stat/level taken vs the core rules which were they were just gone period. In 2E we rolled 4d6 keep t he...

I think you are missing that in the stories while these type of heroes did grow more powerful it was clear from the beginning that they were not ordinary people in terms of abilities but were above the normal crowd. It mentions for example the Conan was going into battle with various enemy...

Yeah imagine that. Since 3E the designers are actually designing a heroic fantasy game where players are heroic in power level like Sword & Sorcery characters which are the root of D&D have traditionally been. They are even designing powers and abilities that work when a character misses or...

The problem I have with the way you are running the game is that I actually like combat encounters. Many players like seeing their awesome cool abilities work and be fun. By pushing towards fewer and more deadly encounters basically the players don't get to see the abilities work really well...

I suspect many people may disagree with your idea of heroic as many (mostly OSR fans) will disagree with mine. Short rests to me or heroic because they allow people to heal without magic and keep the action moving so literally someone could be like a Conan, etc and keep battling and keep going...

Again my counter argument to this is not to look at spells in vacuum because spells are limited by class in addition to level. The spell was balanced by the fact that the classes that had access to it generally do not heal as well paladins and clerics who have access to a wider range of healing...

I like concept of the world being a dark place and the heroes being "points of light" in a dark world. That is not a problem. The dark tone of a world can be conveyed without hosing PCs. Also, no that does not explain certain levels of random F ery. The completely random monster ecology...

To be clear I never said 5E books were not selling. What I am saying is we don't know what percentage of their revenue the books generate vs. other revenue sources like D&D Beyond. D&D books sold well on Amazon in 3rd edition and at the start of 4E as well. Also, I am not saying that what you...

Excellent point. Prior to 5E D&D 3E was the highest selling edition. This makes sense because before 3E D&D had not gotten an update since 1989. The game design philosophy of 2E was very antiquated and 3E came out as a success. In fact, it was the success of D&D 3E, MtG, and Pokemon that...

What exact business principle are you referencing when you mention"running sustainable profits instead of trading long-term viability for short-term gain."? To be clear long-term gains are the goal, no one is disputed that as this is common sense but repeat business is the goal of a business...