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No opinion. The only time it matters is when someone is actively pulling up the image to look at it, which does not happen during gameplay. And to me, D&D is about the gameplay at the table, not the extraneous stuff that sits alongside of it (like art). If the game is good, then the art...

How much work KotB needs to be done by the DM to "make it work" depends entirely on the kinds of information a particular DM thinks they need to run the module. An improvisational DM needs very little additional work, because they are fine just making things up as the party goes along. The name...

If a player took Pact of the Chain because they wanted the narrative of having a more powerful and intelligent familiar than the animals that Wizards normally get and they enjoy the interactions between their PC and their familiar... then there's no reason why the player should want or need to...

You probably shouldn't buy the books then. I hear the 3E FRCS book is still perfectly serviceable. 😄

Don't run anything. Actually take the break you keep saying you need to do every time one of these games or campaigns go sideways. Stop doing this to yourself.

This is all why no one should actually want an updated FR campaign setting book for 5E. What you all actually want is the Grey Box republished with a 5E sticker on the front. ;)

Yeah, I think it might have been Twitter where he said that once he began getting stopped every 40 feet for photos, signatures or just to say Hi... sometimes by people actually physically grabbing him to stop him... that's when he stopped going. That's the curse of celebrity-- you become...

Colville does most of his promotion and talking up of his game through his Twitch livestreams. The people who really give a darn about what he has to say tune into those... and he has said that while his YouTube audience is larger, they don't tend to want the actual nitty-gritty of what is...

I'm willing to bet most DMs either don't even know the true rules or couldn't care about them enough to be concerned if a player was raging one round and then next round said they are ending their rage to cast a spell. The DM would just nod and say "Okay, sure", and never waste any of their...

Which is exactly what independent game companies have to do, and why WotC doesn't. The "masses" are the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people out there for whom 'Dungeons And Dragons' and 'roleplaying game' are synonymous. Independents can't reach those people and shouldn't try...

I see what you're saying. From that binary-like perspective I see what they're going for. Still don't like that it breaks its own internal pattern though. :)

I agree with @pukunui ... if you can get a whole new group together that doesn't include your wife or your neighbor or the teenagers you've been stuck running for in the past... maybe you will finally achieve a game state that makes you truly happy. You've been stuck catering to other people...

Haven't you played or run like twelve different games for this group or various members of this group with other players coming in and out for years now? And you never leave because your wife won't let you? That's what you said several games ago, that she is a power-gamer and that she keeps...

Heh... every single "issue" with the game. Of course, when someone says "many", what that word actually means is "All the people who agree with my issue that I constantly see because I am specifically in contact with those people. But I have no idea how many people that actually is and is...

Still think #20 (and the subsequent numbers) is wrong and messes up their own internal pattern.

I do wonder how a D&D book with cover art by Randall Munroe of xkcd would go over. :D

More people can probably recognize the image of Karlach and Minsc than the images of probably any other FR character besides Elminster and Drizzt. Because no other Realms characters have been immortalized visually to as wide an audience as what we see from the video games. How many of us could...

Roleplaying games are about the stories one creates, not the "board game". If the "board game" (IE rules) were the most important thing... GMs wouldn't need to describe scenes and then ask us "What do you do?"... because the "board game" would already have the order of operations of what we do...

And it's why Champions, ICONS and Mutants & Masterminds succeed as RPGs. :)

A lot of that I think is because we are still within the supposed 5th generation, and no one can really determine the tropes of an era while still within it. We're all too close to it and can't see the forest through the trees. 20 years from now when we are probably in D&D 6E territory and...