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Yeah exactly. We don't need the exact same classes/subclasses/species/etc. as 2E or 4E Dark Sun, but having default restrictions to set the tone of the setting (something I believe 5E has precedent for now, though I forget where), which obviously, like everything, are subject to Rule 0, is going...

Yeah I was kind of expecting a sort of DMG2-type deal to be alluded to, and there's still time for it to appear, but... the vibe I'm getting from 2024 suggests it will not (not exactly a strong argument I admit, vibes lol). Right? I've run 5E up to 16th and honestly, it felt way more "grounded"...

To me that's just word salad. Like the range of possible things you could mean by that is so broad as to render it totally meaningless. Every edition of D&D back to 1E and before could be called that by someone who wanted to, and every edition up to and including the current one could...

Yeah I have to admit I'm a little surprised that 2024, instead of introducing more optionality and optional rules and dials and so on to D&D basically totally removed that aspect, and just hastily skips through how to build stuff. I'd hope a 6E did not do that, but instead made any dials more...

And yet... I think 80-90% of groups wouldn't even notice a problem. And indeed some significant fraction of that 80-90% would probably think it was better. Because a huge percentage of people playing D&D just don't play it attritionally, don't even think about that aspect of the game much, and...

Both of your points are why I'm eager to see more of their work outside a WotC context and when they're working "closer to the metal" as it were (as opposed to being in charge of others). With Crawford, whilst Sage Advice kind of ummm, wasn't a great look, I'm not sure it's ever been a great...

Yeah DH isn't allergic to setting details like Dungeon World for example is, it's more of a straightforward RPG just with narrative elements rather than a narrative RPG impersonating D&D rather convincingly (as DW was).

I mean, isn't it? You talk about the zero-to-hero narrative, but when was that last really true in actual D&D? 2E had Kits which absolutely blew that concept out of the water (some of them being very elaborate, literally from the launch of 2E). 3E had L1 Feats and all sorts of stuff. 4E...

I mean, that's a bit of truism, isn't it? Like, if you looked at 5E in 2014/2015 you might reasonably have said "Eh it'll probably do okay but it's not going to grow D&D, just please some old fans", based on sales and impact, but the combination of accessibility, broad appeal and massive...

I wonder if it's the same setting as the one they're working on for DH, if that's the case, or if this is the other project that Perkins alluded to? My guess is it is the same one - maybe they'll release a dual-stat book for DH and D&D 2024 eventually? That's got some real potential I think...

I mean, D&D fans are at least that volatile, so I'm surprised this was surprising! I guess it surprised you because the others have had decades? But volatile fans is something that can instantly coalesce in basically seconds, just look at the fandoms of say, Steven Universe, or god help us all...

Yeah expanded ritual casting would be key, because 5E has an utterly bizarrely tiny number of spells that can be ritual cast, and hard-locks rituals to (casting time +10 minutes) which also means far less can be done with them. But even then the issue remains that 5E is balanced around combat...

You'd really need to very thoroughly re-work Dark*Matter's lore because it's er... messed up and not in a good way, and in, accidentally, a very politically relevant way today, because the current government of the US got elected in part because of very similar conspiracy theories and itself...

Honestly both kind of make more sense as Psionic given their abilities in 4E.

It is so I refuse to do that! People did complain about it, and whilst I don't recall the exact changes (hopefully someone has all the game builds archived somewhere), it did become a lot harder to just casually apply these effects, I think either Swen liked them too much and wouldn't let them...

That's not really true. Very few people seem to be aware the RPG exists let alone was released not just "people who play fantasy RPGs", but even if it was the latter, that's like 90% of the market lol given how dominant D&D and others are is. So a pretty peculiar situation. The videogame is...

There has to be, but sure as hell Pillars didn't find it. Two games of largely disappointing consumables. I'm sure they were "balanced" but sheesh. I think BG's problems are really: A) The game isn't very well-coded, to this day - for example, if you throw a bomb on to an already-flaming...

I agree, but I think we need to be real here, because there are two massive factors here: 1) We know what we're doing, in extreme detail, compared to "normies" with 5E D&D (and this isn't that different, and generally easier). A fight that's trivial with good builds and good knowledge of how...

The funny thing is I mostly agree! I don't think it's an exceptionally compelling argument. I don't think it's remotely in that bracket/tier of arguments! C+ at best. I think it's an opinion, and frankly, not one I'm married to, but I do think seems correct to me ("seems correct" being, imho...

It's pretty bad but some far from the worst L&O spin-off. I wouldn't watch it unless you wanted to see how funny the concept was (the England & Wales legal system is not an ideal one for this format lol, especially as the whole thing is set long, long after PACE became a serious thing, which...