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I think the return to the Great Wheel as the truth of the multiverse in 5E comes down to two things: nostalgia and broad applicability between settings. What I mean by "broad applicability" is that if WotC decided to start putting out planar material that it would be usable with most settings...

Between a new Planescape game and some kind of Spelljammer game I wonder which would sell better? I'd really like to see how those two boxes sets sold.

I would like a more tactical game or dungeon crawler. I would also hypothetically like a Baldur's Gate 4, but I don't know if anyone could make a good BG4 given how wildly atypical it's development apparently was (to the point that other studios have basically said "BG3 is insane, please don't...

Yeah, I've been a fan of Mega Man longer than D&D and it's been more or less a dormant franchise for a decade, so I'm happy to see it get recognition after so long.

For the adventures set in the Forgotten Realms that is the case. For Spelljammer it resulted in their essentially not being any setting other than a homebase (the Rock of Bral) and two barely described Wildspace systems where you only actually land on a single planet in one of them for one or...

I am glad at least that they're shifting increasingly to adventure anthologies that can feature many different locales and concepts. Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel and Keys from the Golden Vault were especially welcome additions that just felt fresh and new; new worlds, locations, gameplay...

I personally put dissatisfied, but on further reflection I think at least part of my dissatisfaction comes from a lack of planar material beyond whatever is included in adventures. It's kind of wild to me that we got Planescape before a Manual of the Planes, for example, and if I want a good...

Now that we are ten years into 5E, how are you feeling about the amount of content that has been published by WotC for use by DMs? Is there enough, too much, or too little?

If adding a 2 to a title confused people then I don't see how releasing a second set of 5E core books for 2024 with the exact same names as the 2014 core books won't be even more confusing.

Do you have a source for this?

4E tried that with the Dungeon Master's Guide 2, which had: Advice for storytelling techniques, such as failing forward, the "yes, and" technique, and vignettes. A section on collaborative homebrew setting creation ("yes, and" applied to letting players establish details about the world during...

They didn't ask about Elminster on Reddit, they reported in a post about the DMG 2024 Lore Glossary that they appreciated finally having another source outside of Baldur's Gate 3 to find out who Elminster is, further stating that they had previously read other 5E books that mentioned Elminster...

I really appreciate the Bastion rules as something more concrete and potentially team oriented than the downtime rules were, and the lore glossary was something the game needed for a while now to try and get the new blood to know and maybe care who this Mordenkainen guy is that they keep...

I kind of wish I had specified in my OP that I was wondering why the magazines as a collection of articles was discontinued, not specifically as a print medium. I still think that even if a monthly pair of magazines is no longer tenable that some kind of periodic online release along the lines...

As a lore junkie I have a hard time getting excited for anything that comes out of the DMs Guild, unfortunately. I want to see official lore developments that build up the world of D&D and could be expanded upon in the future, not someone's obscure homebrew. Lore and worldbuilding in particular...

When I first got into running D&D around 2007 one of my favorite things to do was to collect the new issues of Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine, and even when they went fully digital with 4E I still loved looking at each issue for inspiration and resources. Some of my favorites were the...

The interaction of skills and tools is definitely the clunkiest and least intuitive aspect of the game's design. I tried to rephrase the rules myself just now but kept tripping myself up.

Yeah, this is the way. Which is more interesting, a Cleric who can't do anything until they atone or a Cleric who receives a visit from followers of their god to put the pressure on them? It also opens up the possibility of having good PCs who are heretical followers of evil gods. For example...

I would like to have monster creation rules...that work just like the 4E monster creation ones (or the more recent MCDM take) with explicit roles to design around. 5E so far IMO has suffered too much from inconsistent monster design standards that make it so some monsters are just...