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I think it is relevant. By using the word "megacorp", you imply that Hasbro is essentially untouchable, immune to any meaningful challenge by governmental action or economic whirlwinds, a titanic force straddling the globe. There are corporations like that, but Hasbro is definitely not one of...

Hasbro is not a megacorp. They seem big to people taking an interest in events on this board, but depending on what you're ranking them on, Hasbro is something like the 2000th largest corporation in the world, taking in less revenue than such household names as ArcBest, Atmos Energy, and...

Yeah, looks like someone screwed up that slide. The total on the right looks correct, but not the category-specific numbers, given this:

There is no "innately" anything in 5e. That's a (IIRC) 3e-ism that hasn't been carried forward. After all: "The alignment specified in a monster’s stat block is a default suggestion of how to roleplay the monster, inspired by its traditional role in the game or real-world folklore. Change a...

No, it depends on the birth, and possibly life, circumstances of the goblin. Were they born in, or did they grow up in, the Feywild, or near a fey crossing? Or are they urban sophisticates in Sharn? Or have they spent eternity serving hobgoblin masters and dying and respawning repeatedly in...

There is no such premise. AFAIK, WotC has never once hinted that a change from a Humanoid type to some other was done for the purpose of making them morally easier to murder. No one from WotC has ever said that it's morally OK for PCs to kill any non-Humanoids on sight. After all, that premise...

OK, it's clear that WotC developed a set of design constraints for 2024 which were revised to some extent from those for 2014. Among those constraints are the following: Creatures only have one Type. (carried over from 2014) "Humanoids are people defined by their roles and professions, such as...

That's right! As are goblins, and mind flayers, and specters, and barbed devils, and suits of animated armor, and apes, and green hags, and azers, and zombies, and needle blights, and liches, and iron golems, and frost giants, and djinn, and dretches, and (OK, I'm going to stop now), which all...

Just noting here that the 2014 MM also didn't include stat blocks for elves (or dwarves, halflings, gnomes, etc.), other than the more "monstrous" versions like drow, duergar, or svirfneblin. Not including orcs, now that they're in the PHB, is just being consistent.

Setting aside the stipulation that acquisition of power (levels, magic items, status, etc.) universally defines a "happy ending"... Are you saying that power makes one immune to tragedy? There are LOTS of examples of that not being the case. Most, perhaps all, Greek and Shakespearean tragic...

One more time to make it really frigging clear: "Both the new Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide [are] breaking records for the best-selling D&D books ever." - Chris Cocks, quoted speaking to investors on Hasbro's 2024Q4 earnings call

They did so! They said exactly that. I reproduced the quote earlier in this thread, in a response to one of your posts: "Both the new Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide [are] breaking records for the best-selling D&D books ever." - Chris Cocks, speaking to investors on Hasbro's 2024Q4...

Ay ay ay. Your claim that WotC intended a meaningful distinction between "book" and "product":

I didn't make a truth claim about WotC's intent or non-intent by their use of wording. You did.

They used a different word. Prove that they intended to make a distinction by doing so.

Of course they don't provide numbers; that's standard behavior. Businesses generally don't provide numbers to the public unless they're legally required to do so. But that doesn't mean that what they said is unclear. "Fastest-selling" and "best-selling" are obvious, if nonspecific. Did they...

WotC minion: "Uh, sir, people are questioning the wording of our press release, referring to the Player's Handbook as a 'product' instead of a 'book', and about being the 'fastest-selling' instead of the 'best-selling'. It'd be great if you could clear that up for folks at the earnings call."...

But clerics have an advantage over other spellcasters for precisely this reason: their typical spellcasting implement, the Holy Symbol, can be worn rather than held. This doesn't help for spells with Somatic or Material components, but you also see this principle operating in spell selection...

Well, that's not quite true. For example, a 3.0e adventure could throw errors for a 3.5e DM by calling for a check against Alchemy, Animal Empathy, Innuendo, Intuit Direction, Pick Pocket, Read Lips, Scry, or Wilderness Lore, and such skills showing up in a monster/NPC stat block could at least...