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Kara Tur IS a D&D setting. It should be covered by WotC. I've long been frustrated at the lack of support from WotC for the Realms beyond Faerun, for Kara Tur, Maztica, or Zakhara (not to mention Katashaka or Osse, the two continents we've never had anything about other than the vaguest...

Yeah, that depends entirely on local public health rules. Some game shops have tried curbside take-out, only to be told it's not allowed.

. . .another thing that I've thought to point out: Basic D&D: The Rules Cyclopedia. . .I can very much appreciate the idea of making core D&D into a single book.

We've all got a favorite edition. We've all got editions that aren't our favorites. However, from the editions that weren't my favorite, I can still point out things that I liked from those editions. Concepts, styles, ways books were written. . .something. . .in each edition that were good...

That was a rule in 1e and in 2e, it wasn't eliminated until 3e. 1e and 2e also had hard caps on how many spells you could know of each level, based on your intelligence. One of the big perks of getting a 19 INT was that cap was lifted and you could finally learn any spell you could put in your...

Traditionally, with Ravenloft, the idea has been that people only enter, or leave, when the Dark Powers wish it. If the Dark Powers of Ravenloft want to let people take things from it, they can. If not, they just vanish as they leave. If you aren't Vecna, then you aren't getting out of...

The closest there has been to that in D&D, that I am aware of, would be the Archivist class in D&D 3.5e. It lost the heavy armor proficiency, and the undead turning, for more knowledge-based abilities and a bigger skill list and more skill points, and it had intelligence-based casting and...

Where I grew up, in rural Kentucky, the "Satanic Panic" fear of D&D lasted at least into the late 1990's. My last encounter with it was in 1998, being kicked out of a small Southern Baptist church because I mentioned in passing to the Pastor that I play D&D (my weekly game was on Saturday...

Same. Almost 20 years of playing 3.x. . .and a LOT of the problems that people allege with the system are things I've never seen, or only saw when I'd play with some group I didn't normally play with. I think that many of the "big" problems with 3.x people allege aren't inherent problems with...

Besides the Demons and Devils being renamed. . . The very idea of Clerics worshiping fictional Gods was treated as an optional rule. By 2e PHB standard, clerics just worshiped the vague concept of "Good" or "Evil", and having fictional religions or deities for a game was officially an optional...

This is going rather far afield, and might be better for another thread, but I've always found Greyhawk to be staggeringly hard to get into, because of a dearth of good materials I'd never heard it described as an actual campaign setting release, I'd always thought that was just an update for...

Pathfinder was publicly released for sale in August 2009, over a year after 4e came out. It was announced publicly on March 18, 2008, when 4e had already been announced and it was already clear that 4e would be a total break from the 3.x design lineage. It's success was as an alternative to 4e...

That's your personal opinion, not what "people" collectively thought. I remember QUITE well the edition wars. From the moment 4e was announced at Gen Con 2007, many people were skeptical because they liked 3e and didn't see a need for a new edition. Yes, some people wanted something new or...

I've always pronounced it as SELL (as in the opposite of to buy) dar (rhymes with bar) ine (as in the last syllable of "submarine")

It also lead to the first time in about 20 years when D&D wasn't the top-selling tabletop RPG. Pathfinder supplanted it at the top for a while circa 2012 IIRC. The last time, and only other time, D&D wasn't the #1 selling RPG was a brief period in the 1990's when the World of Darkness books...

I'll definitely agree with this. Many people's problems with it weren't that it was a bad game per se. . .it's that it was such a divergence from what people thought of as D&D, especially baseline core D&D. If 4e had been released under some other name, it probably would have had a much more...

While 4e itself may be highly controversial, even years later. . .I do think there at least is a consensus that it was a total failure at marketing.

Rituals were introduced in 3.5e as an optional rule in Unearthed Arcana from 2004 (after first appearing in d20 Modern in the Urban Arcana sourcebook/setting book). (Thus it's even OGC: UA:Incantations - D&D Wiki) They called them "Incantations", but it was the same concept.

I had to select "I never played this edition and I don't really want to". There was a time late in 3e when I had a lot of personal stuff going on, so I wasn't involved with my local gaming group as much. That was around the time 4e was announced. I was skeptical, since I rather liked 3e and...

Is that your personal opinion, or is there an official statement from WotC on the matter?