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You have a surprisingly negative opinion of D&D as a brand, especially considering it has had different content creators and even ownership over the years. I'm not so sure a 40 year body of work can be written off as "lazy". WotC has a number of talented current employees, plus a vast number of...

Abyss 13 Arborea/Olympus 17 Arcadia 10 Baator/The Nine Hells 16 Beastlands/Happy Hunting Grounds 14 Carceri/Tarterus 6 Elysium/Blessed Fields 1 Ysgard/Gladsheim 16

What I liked. I like the looks of XGtE. A lot of the UA material is being collected in one place and cleaned up. This book in going to get a lot of use. I'm hoping the DM section really gives players some direction of what to do with their big piles of gold that are gathering dust. What I'm...

A great 5e parallel is Faction and Faction Ranks.

But maybe it is reasonable? It's nice to think that we're Earthlings drawing upon our various Earth cultures for ideas. But that isn't the reality of things. We're talking about book from an all-white dev team going out to a majority white audience published in a country with an ongoing problem...

I specifically used the term "POC" to mirror the Kotaku/POCGamer articles. I don't think I've ever used it before in writing. I am seeing it more and more these days, sorry to hear it's not to your liking :/ Also, Pocky is delicious and any association with Pocky should only be viewed...

5e is moving at exactly the right pace. The glut of books seen in previous editions, and particularly in PF, just isn't here. Released in 2014, 5e has the pacing down perfectly. -Core books: They have the core 3 rulebooks, which remain the entry point to the game. -Modules: They release...

It may be of interest that the Chult region grew out of a novel, The Ring of Winter, by an author inspired by old pulp fiction. The details are in the DriveThruRPG sales copy for the original 2e module. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/16838/FRM1-The-Jungles-of-Chult-2e?it=1

The 4e product Dungeon Delve did a pretty excellent job of having no prep, 2 to 3 encounter mini-dungeons that told a simple story. I used them if my own prep plans got interrupted, or if the party went off the rails to somewhere not related to any prep/plot.

This is a loaded subject if there ever was one, and it'll be interesting to see if this thread rises above....or is going to eventually get locked. My thoughts: 1. WotC is trying. I will say that the current design team at WotC has shown itself to be in touch with the times and thoughtful in...

Here is my longstanding rule for rolling vs point buy: I strongly encourage point buy, as well as taking the average HP at level up. Should a player choose to roll, they must do so at the table witnessed by the DM, with the full understanding that there is a risk that they will underperform the...

Our group is doing a one-shot of The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse at our Halloween party.

10 systems supported is also very ambitious. There is a lot being promised here.

"Thunder White" is going to get used by me somehow. Maybe a Nazi villain.

The continued existence of Harmony Gold makes me sad. Do they just have the U.S. rights to Macross forever, as in the license will never expire or lapse? It's so disappointing that they have tied up the rights to far better and still ongoing Japanese source material with a mish-mash they lazily...

I would love to have a single multi-setting book, i.e. "NAMEHERE's Guide to the Multiverse". The basic format would be a 250-ish page hardcover. The first 100 or so pages would be a Manual of the Planes rehash, with the spelljamming rules as well. After that, the final 150 pages would be a 15...

I do not miss attribute minimums/maximums at all. The current system of racial modifiers works fine. It's far more intuitive to reflect racial differences with baselines, rather than ultimate potential.

I was expecting a one-time cost. A monthly fee plus buying the books again is not how I intend to spend my money.

"The Magic: The Gathering team at Wizards of the Coast got together with James Wyatt of the Dungeons & Dragons team" IIRC, James Wyatt left the D&D team for the Magic team a few years back. Here's the article...

I wrote a quick overview of the novel: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0radhZz036snz3ImrKTts7xprw2kcq30gov782QOQE/edit?usp=drivesdk