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One feature of a typical medieval society, as inspired by feudal age western Europe, is that it lacks a strong central government. There's no police or standing army, so people are apt to ask wandering adventurers for help when they have problems that need to be solved with righteous violence...

I'm playing in a single active 5e campaign playing through ToA, and I expect that we'll finish that campaign with the current rules and characters. Maybe we'll adopt a few rules from the new books, but we're not planning to allow 2024 character options or spells. Hopefully the release of the...

Warforged may potentially be immortal, but that also goes for vampires, liches, elementals and many outsiders. Being immortal isn't all that special in D&D, the hard part is surviving long enough for immortality to be noticable.

Quite likely. We don't know what quantity "diamond dust worth 100gp" actually is, it's probably a tiny amount.

In D&D, silver is a lot more expensive than on Earth, because there is a constant demand for powdered silver to create holy water. This consumes the silver, taking it off the market permanently. It's basic economics, really.

That's a lot of data about what the TV companies think makes money, but not a whole lot of data about what can make money.

Straight dexterity check to slip out of the ropes, but I'd allow a sleigh of hand check while being tied up to make the up-tier believe that the rope is securely tied when it's not.

Reminds me of this classic meme from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

Supporting multiple editions would make business sense if there was a significant pool of gamers out there who are playing versions of "D&D" that aren't published by WotC. The reality is that WotC is already selling to the vast majority of their potential customers. There might be a small number...

I think she has the pale grey skin common in modern-era drow, illuminated with yellow light from whatever magical thing she's doing.

There was a 400 year overlap from the major introduction of guns in the early 16th century until the end of WW1 where melee fighting still played a major role in combat. It wasn't until the full scale introduction of squad level machine guns in the interwar years that gunfights became so deadly...

The key to getting more people to DM is probably to make DMing more fun. Lightening the cognitive load is one way to help that. The one area where I really think DM fun could be improved is in combat. In 5e combat the DM is basically putting on a performance where the monsters pretend to put up...

Aragorn, Drizzt and Minsc are Rangers. <--Thread ends here -->

I haven't read the adventure, but I don't think it's going to flop. There's significant hype, and the reported issues, if any, won't be apparent to most players until the adventure is bought and paid for. Now, if it's actually disappointing, then maybe the next adventure will flop. This could...

This is so much better than the standard cover! If I can't snag this PHB I'll wait for 6e. I wasn't planning on buying the PHB at release, but it looks like wotc found a way into my wallet, the sneaky kobolds.

I like that it puts the adventurers front and center, unlike the 5e PHB with its random giant taking up most of the cover. But that's pretty much the only thing I like about it, the colors and composition are way too busy. And the artistic quality really isn't quite what I'd expect from the...

One major question remains... what gender is the big red dragon?

In my experience, the people whom the champion fighter was made for usually end up trying to play a wizard instead, with poor results for both themselves and the rest of the table.

Who else would it have been? Either the plan was Cock's idea or he approved of it. He'd be a truly incompetent big boss if he let someone else move forward with a major policy change like that without his support.

The fact they're still talking about them strongly suggests wotc still plans to release the previous edition SRDs. If the intent was to sweep them under the rug then the SRDs would never be mentioned again.