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"Gatekeeping" invoked. Check. News flash: I cannot stop you from having fun any way you want. I am gatekeeping nothing. And invoking 'Rule Zero' is a total strawman because it has nothing to do with my objective statement how outright ignoring certain rules or fundamentally changing them...

Except that by definition they are not. It's like playing a game of "chess" where you use the board and pieces but you are outright ignoring any rule you want during play, and still calling it "chess". You might be using the chess board and pieces, but by any objective measure you were not...

My reply covers this. Just like there are options in the DMG to make things harder, one could do similar system tweaks to make things even easier. But when we get to: "At this point we ignore the mechanical system entirely, because 'story'." That is not a system tweak to make the game...

Unlucky streaks do happen. I have had that as a player and a GM. It makes for interesting gaming. People go on streaks IRL, so I find it emulative. Not a problem. I don't see the problem here. These are all potential consequences of running the game as intended. It is what makes the...

If they are a group that runs things pretty much straight up I can believe them. When my group did Waterdeep heist the GM ran it as intended and at about 5th level I stopped feeling any sense of real risk in combat with my rouge PC. In fact started taking more risks with little or no...

Ok, so it is rather straight forward: For the first session you do need to lay down the basic premise of the game world, and some initial hook to get the PC's rocking and rolling. I will use a Classic example: B1 keep on the Borderlands is often used as a campaign starting point. (It can be...

And that's why a single PC death will cause an entire campaign to fail, and fall apart. Putting the campaign first doesn't makes PC's interchangeable. It is the simple acceptance that PC death is a potential outcome of play. Nobody likes PC death. Players do get attached. But no properly run...

I'll just come out and say it. If a campaign is "messed up" by a single PC's death, verily, thine GM hast done it wrong. Because: ^This^ This is why you should not be able to plan more than one session ahead. This is why you do not do pre-planned "storylines"... You set up the situation...

Aside from one shady actor (ZS), I disagree. But our disagreement doesn't matter. Because: Mearls was right to simplify 5e the way he did. Lots of new and casual players have tried the game more than ever before. 5e being more accessible and newbie friendly if not outright helping D&D being...

5e does tilt the XP charts so that you blow through he first three levels in record time compared to past editions. So maybe not superman - but 5e does all it can to get PC's out of the traditional early level 'danger zone' as soon as it can. WotC devs should just admit what they want to do...

"No need to be offensive" Then: "Grumpy old man much?" LOL... You forgot to preface your reply with: With all due respect...

They are glossing over the fact that with their lore changes the Shadow of the Dragon Queen obviously takes place in an alternate DL universe. They did say they were going all-in on a "multiverse"... He mealy-mouthed the answer because corporate WotC likes to have things both ways as much as...

One of my chief knocks on 5e is that it has less GM tools in the DMG for actual dungeon delving than B/X had in 1980... Go Here: ( OSE SRD - A well organized version of the B/X rules) https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/index.php/Time,_Weight,_Movement...

It's possible. I think it far more likely that they will continue to politely ignore each other. Hickman and Weiss are writing for classic DL fans. WotC has already shown their hand with the lore changes in their arcana preview. WotC is targeting a different audience now. I don't think...

And that kids is how to make your RPG DOA at launch...

And yet... They have the '5e Compatible' logo right on the front cover. It does kinda' beg the question; how far can a 5e adaptation drift and still be considered 5e compatible? Ouch. And confirming people's reason's for never backing first print run collector's editions...

Not Possible. Dragons of Deceit will be in no way shape or form part of any official WotC announcement for D&D. All info about the new Dragonlance books since day one has come from Hickman, Weiss, and their publisher. WotC has been radio silent, never mentioning the new books in any way. I...

Ahhh... So a 5e based game, but not really 5e compatible.

Arguably is the key word. Nobody really knows. Including me. As to One More Multiverse, I saw their promo vid. Nintendo called and want their 1990 SNES graphics engine back... The learning curve will entirely depend on the UI. The sims series didn't have much of a problem getting teen...

All your points 1-5 are absolutely valid. A top down 2/3d VTT would have to be a one stop shop for all features, and it would have to have an easier and more intuitive user interface. It would likely be more RPG system specific as well. Yes, it would be more expensive to develop. It would...