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As someone who has worked for gigantic corporations almost my whole life, they are rarely, if ever, petty and vindictive on an institutional level. That tends to be tiny company behavior, e.g. the FLGS down the street from me that sabotaged itself because the owner personally had a grudge...

Well, sure, but what I'm saying is the modification needed would result directly in poor sales. Your average player wants to be flinging Fireballs after a few game sessions. Low-level adventuring is baked in via the XP system and the higher lethality of the game. Sure, you can buy a 14th-level...

If every single character you draw up effortlessly gets to 5th level in about 10 days of adventuring, then it doesn't matter if the DM has a paragraph of flavor text in a guide, read once when he introduced the setting three years ago, insisting that such people are quite rare. Your experience...

Can't imagine what else to call it. For now, "Greyhawk" works. In typical 5e FR adventures, a 10th-level Fighter is often nothing more than an errand-boy for more important people. Regardless of what any internal document on FR class & level demographics at WotC might say, the game does very...

The problem is that you need to show, not tell, the players how the world works. This is incompatible with 5e pacing. Players really don't have to accomplish much in 5e to get to high levels in relative terms of how much they accomplish. You can say something in some splash of text somewhere...

1. Gold for XP 2. AD&D XP tables (used the Thief for everybody) Nobody has ever been past 9th level.

They only become unused if you have 5-minute work days, and if you do, the DM just isn't very bright.

FWIW, I've been running Greyhawk in 5e for several years. I just use the 1e setting book. It works well enough if you change some 5e rules to make it pace more like 1e. As much fun as I've had, that's the biggest thing that won't sell. I think most 5e players want to get to 17th level and kill a...

A Greyhawk setting should add rules for ruling domains and waging war. And it shouldn't be boring book-keeping crap, nobody wants to keep track of annual crop yield.

I think one critical aspect of the Greyhawk setting is that characters 10th level and above are extremely rare, and quite powerful. If you meet a Fighter of 10th level, he's a lord regent, not a hired sword. This isn't scalable. You can't just use 20th level instead of 10th. Because in Greyhawk...

TWF is really a wreck. God forbid that you just give people an extra attack. Then a Ranger could cast Hunter's Mark and strike with his offhand the same round, absolutely ruining the game forever.

Or just set your AC to 19 for the duration of the spell. I mean, I guess they want to give you the option of using magic armor if you have it. But it seems unnecessary.

It seems like the original idea of "bonus action" seems to be that it was a true bonus granted by doing something else. But then they introduced free-standing bonus actions, like the Rogues' class feature, Hex, and so on, and it just became the 4e action economy without the conversion rule. The...

Most high-level undead resist or are immune to necrotic damage, and there just aren't that many constructs in the MM. It's kind of a dumb restriction, but not really a game-changer. Really, the only thing I've seen come up in play is the short range. Also worth noting that it's one of very few...

I personally find published material saves me enormous amounts of prep time. In fact, I don't really do a lot of prep at all.

I mean, they couldn't sell the books they were printing for 2e, not enough to cover costs. They apparently simply stiffed their printer, too, and thought that would just work forever. Honestly, from what I've read, it sounds like Lorraine Williams was running a bust-out operation. After the WotC...

It's also just easier.

IMO the only sustainable business model is what 5e is doing now: focus on adventures, occasionally dropping something more permanent in response to player demand. The revenue from a hardback rule book is deceptive, since the marginal utility of each additional rule book for the players...

The problem is most bonus actions are "When you X, you can Y as a bonus action," and people either don't remember X correctly, don't write it down, or WotC themselves didn't write it clearly. For example, Jeremy Crawford himself seems unsure about how the Shield Master conditions work. The way...

D&D will eventually crash because at some point, a C-suite executive will say, "This thing practically sells itself! Only an idiot could screw this up!" and put a complete idiot in charge of it, who will then proceed to completely screw it up.