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I think you are underestimating the value you can get from PotC. All but one of the additional familiars have at-will invisibility and they are able to take the Attack action. There are a large number of spells that can take advantage of that (The pseudodragon has some interesting telepathic...

(Sorry, but) The thing that stands out to me most strongly is that... this is a Zipf distribution. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised since Zipf is everywhere, but still. (For anyone who doesn't know, a simple explanation of Zipf's Law is that it's an observation that a huge number of real-world...

It's a pretty common houserule in a few games that revivify is the only get-out-of-dying-free spell that works at all. I have also played with a few groups that have insisted the somatic component involves rubbing the palms of the hands vertically together, and the verbal component is "Clear!" ;-)

I would definitely not allow this spell. There are much more limited variants I would allow, but nothing this general. Firstly, limited spell selection is one of the ways the power of casters has been curtailed in 5e. Simply negating that, even if the wording was corrected and it did always...

It dropped out of the top 100 in the US. I'm not sure it has ever been in the top 100 in the UK. (Based on discussion in other threads, it looks like there was a huge surge in people buying educational books around when lots of schools closed)

Yeah, I don't think I've really seen any direct investment from WotC here. Then again, where outside the US have they really been investing? I think they've been largely focused on their home market (and since it is the largest and cheapest for them to effect, probably sensibly)

In 3e, there was the atonement spell, which would restore that and a couple of other things if you did the roleplaying to justify it. 5e has very few mechanics tied to alignment, and the only thing that I can think of which can cause it to change are in the DMG - the Deck of Many Things and...

Now, that's new. I believe this is the first time I have seen D&D being a promoted part of anything in UK media. Comic Relief is big! It made me look on Amazon - the PHB is still way down compared to the US in all books (around 700), but this is... highly interesting: Amazon.co.uk Best Sellers...

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I play in three groups at the moment. One was online-only from the start. The two face-to-face groups had sessions about once a month, because one involves people (... me) travelling hundreds of miles for it, and the other because it's after work on an evening and scheduling has been hard. Both...

There was a big issue in Brazil over the translations - Brazilian D&D Translators Fall Out Over Translation Rights is an article I recall reading at the time. There was talk of people boycotting the release, which will probably have had an impact on getting the new edition started properly. It...

Ah yes. The parlous state of D&D in 2020. Clearly the result of incompetence.

Not just that. I don't know how much the effect is - and as with all such unknowns, actually quantifying it would be hard, but it's worth remembering that online engagement is much more expected now. (Almost) anyone who started with 1e who uses the services which WotC's stats are drawn from has...

grin I wasn't asking you, don't worry. (And when the maintenance I'm doing finally finishes, I think I will do that. I'm mostly reading and posting here to keep me sane(ish) while doing some rather complex and slow work)

It's the rate of increase (and before the pandemic, of course) that interests me. The interesting question (to me) is: How does the rate of increase of 5e games now compare to before other RPGs started to (re)gain their share of the market. That would tell us some interesting things about how...

Which is exactly what you'd expect to happen. Some people will only play d&d, but a portion of the new people will branch out and find new games that work for them. The interesting question I don't recall whether we could get from that data is whether the total number of 5e games was still...

So, there's a discussion that keeps recurring every now and then about whether 5e has outsold the original golden age. I think - given the sales data we have - that this rather suggests it has. I mean, this certainly feels like a golden age of d&d (and, probably started already as people branch...

Was this unexpected? :-D

There's a lot of absolutes being thrown around here. "Objected". "Undeniably". It does not work that way. You are allowed to dislike something - even vehemently. However, other people are allowed to like it, and doing so does not make them idiots or wrong. I could get into an argument about...

I think that you miss the fine distinction between 'objective' and 'subjective'. If it were objective, then everyone would agree with you and we wouldn't find people happy to say they like the art style, or (as in my case) are unmoved by it.