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The answer to that question is always, emphatically and unequivocally, Yes. Which is why canon gatekeeping is so weird to me, it's not like WotC is any more loosey goosey than TSR ever was.

Well, the Spells are the resources in 5E: it is a game of attrition of Spell Slots and HP, more than water and food, etc. Though the latter help overall if kept track of carefully.

Speaking as someone who owns and has read all of HoME...no, not really. Editorial decisions had to be made,different eras of drafts were smashed together, and ultimately IMO the drafts fragments are stronger than the final prosict a lot of the time (the original 1916 Tuor and the Fall of...

I mean, that's why I don't expect an explicit announcement is imminent...but who knows?

I mean, they have a lot more products coming down the pipeline in the next few months. They did a big product reveal in December back in 2023, could be something they do again.

Can't day personally, I'm an analog type person, but wanted people to know about the sale. The Shard of Opportunity real play group has a deep dive on it, though: https://www.youtube.com/live/HbAZkEC--To?si=V0z25NT_EmVlilCh

I can't speak to the interior state of his mind to adjudication the truth value in his head, but he is most charitable engaging in fevered conspiracy theorizing. This is, unfortunately, a habit, hence why many ignore him.

Yes,now called heroic inspiration, tweaked a bit but not much different. Human's thing as a Species is getting Heroic Inspiration after every Long Rest to start, plus a Feat and a bonus Skill.

I .eqn,5E already has Inspiration, which is a metacurrency.

Basically the premise, yes.

The person who discussed that idea, Monte Cook also quit almost immediately after that blog post.

Because the broader impacts and individual risk level are way lower, D&D dominance is not nearly as intense at suppressing alternatives. Pretty much all carrot, no stick. When WotC tried a little stick, it led to them releasing the rules into Creative Commons.

Here's the thing: I think they delivered a system in 2014 that had modular capabilities. You can weld stuff onto 5E, and hack stuff in all sorts of ways. I think what they found was that the market demand for a lot of the modules they were noodling with was lower than "here are some pirate ship...

The stakes to society are way lower in TTRPGs: WotC market leadership status doesn't give them massive power over society.

That's a big part...but the scale of the market not being a major lode for investment is another.

To belabor this a bit: the Cosmere RPG actually does solve both of these poitns: - Skills are 3E style points on a 5E bounded accuracy curve (so +5 is the max Skill level, but a Character can have them mixed around), while there is also "Expertises" which work more like AD&D Proficiencies: so...

The main reason is that there isn't enough of a market for someone else to come along and put in yhe R&D budget and marketing muscle it would take: D&D is way, waaay far ahead of everyone just in marketing research and gametesting raw data.

I agree, the one to watch h IMO is the Plotweaver system that Brotherwise Games is using for the Cosmere RPG: it is hitting that sweet spot and borrowing a lot of key 5E elements while making a fundamentally different game.

Qell, this right here is the major difference: D&D is morenlike Linux than Windows.

I think resource management is pretty key to D&D being D&D, but I can understand them desire for a game with a similar moment to moment playstyle that isn't about that. The Plotweaver system Brotherwise Games is using for the Stormlight Archives RPG does that: it mostly plays like 5E moment to...