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I’d say decision / integration. Integration to me just means you accept the fact and do with it what you want, including staying with 2014 or moving to a different system altogether (“Let’s do this”)

then I am not sure why you were comparing it to one for WFRPG for new players why not? I am sure they would prefer one revised PHB over three books, same for a DM and added a bunch of changes to much of its content Better organization, new art could all have been done either way I agree, my...

and I agree with them on that, you first need advice on how to DM before you need advice on how to be an advanced DM if you are already experienced and do not care about the other things in it, by all means do that. Personally I have all three and they complement each other nicely, esp 5e and...

I would not mind bringing it all together into a new, better organized core book once things are spread out over a handful of books or more, but that is absolutely not what we got.

all true, but that WotC made it an introductory one shows that making things easier for (new) GMs is important. Add the ToV and A5e DMGs and you cover a wide scope ;)

some people may tell you that, but you do not need to believe them, and going by the 2024 DMG neither does WotC

I am not sure about the latter one, if you make the DM's life hard, there is less incentive to be a DM. On top of that I am not interested in playing superheroes either, so from my perspective they make the DM's life harder to accomplish something I do not want in the first place. In your...

generally no, because tedium does not require skill in the first place. The OSR focuses too much on tedium for my taste and tries to pass it off as skilled play however, imo. Skilled play to me means you are using limited means and ingenuity to accomplish goals that seem hard in comparison...

oh no, I find that a perfect comparison. Tapping every tile with a 10 foot pole is not hard, just tedious. Keeping track of all kinds of resources is not that far removed from tedium either in most cases

if all you do in 5e is roll a die, then I’d argue that this is not the intended way either, just like it is not for 1e.

Ended up giving it a 6. A 7 would be justified too (I would give 2014 that), but 2024 is just treading water and that costs it a point. Add to this that the game is (slightly) moving in a direction I do not like, and 6 is the more accurate number. Still makes 5e the high point for D&D. 1e would...

that is true for 5e as well, so it does not seem to be a defining feature of any one edition but to be true for all of them

I assume 1 is low and 10 is high? ;)

I mean, that is a lesson they should have been aware of. Opinions are diverse, so if you listen to one person complain, chances are you are upsetting another person - and the one who is currently upset is the one complaining while the one who is currently happy is silent. That is just how this...

it is Unearthed Arcana, but for 5e those are the playtest documents they ask for feedback on, not the 1e book by the same name

I assume there is a difference between your most engaged and your most opinionated though If not, and that means everyone filling out the UA falls into most opinionated, these are still different opinions, and they are probably not that far off from what others think, even if possibly more...

I did not forget about it, I never heard of it ;) I wasn’t paying attention to TTRPGs at the time, drifted out during 2e and back in during 5e. So no first hand knowledge, but WotC designing in an ivory tower pretty much sounded like the consensus in the retellings I have seen since

no idea, I don’t think it was ‘just’ meant as an improved 3e however. Aren’t these things you would want to address in any case? Seems to be what most people would address while making the version they want to make. In any case, the 4e designers did make the version they wanted, rather than the...

they did that with 4e, I don’t think they will try that again any time soon they probably should not do that one either, so the question is how you determine this part of the fanbase. Is it simply anyone participating in the UAs? In any case, your job as a designer does not begin and end with...

which is not what I said WotC should do. They definitely should ask for feedback during the design process to see how popular ideas are. They should not replace the design process with having the people design the game for them via the UAs. 4e’s fault was that the designers thought they knew...