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I suppose it's interesting that they're revealing it in a mainstream outlet like the Mirror. At least, as a non-Brit it's my impression that the Mirror is pretty mainstream. Maybe a local could add more detail to that. As for the art itself, well, I'm not saying anything until I see it in...

I'm not sure what's confusing or contradictory about it. 4e and 5e are different editions. They have different design philosophies, different feels, and different play experiences. Sure, there are discrete elements that carry over. So what? It's not like 4e was an anathema where I detest every...

It's been a bit over 30 years since I first played a version of D&D, and I don't know that I can recall a single Wizard PC I've played in that entire time. It's just not for me. And I still didn't like 4e. The one campaign we tried, I had a Paladin. A Paladin of the Raven Queen, in fact, since I...

Please, let's not stray into ascribing motives and putting words into the mouth of the people who disagree with you. No one has said that, no one even suggested that, so to put it forth is just building strawmen. For many of us, we just didn't like how 4e played. It didn't feel satisfying or...

While I bailed on 4e fairly early, I do keep hearing some variation of this from those who stuck with it longer. Even if the design intention wasn't to replicate a video game environment where only certain pre-scripted skill interactions were allowed, it sure seems like a lot of groups fell into...

That's a good point I'd never quite verbalized before. You can see this focus just in the fact that 4e has Encounter based recharge powers and 5e has Short Rest based recharge powers. We can quibble over the ideal length of a Short Rest, or point out that they're functionally fairly similar to...

My usual play group started up a new campaign when 4e launched, went for three or four months, and then collectively agreed it wasn't for us. So we played other games like Pathfinder or Savage World until good word of mouth about 5e lured us back. It's been a long time, so I don't remember the...

The imprecision is a feature, not a bug, for a lot of people. It allows for creative uses of features and spells instead of them only and exactly doing a specific thing. There's also the fact that 4e aggressively removed anything that couldn't easily be defined by its technical terms. No free...

I too really enjoyed the two preview books. It's why I went all-in and preordered the complete Core box set. And maybe I'm an oddball, or maybe Heinsoo is misreading the situation, but I loved the setting changes while finding the mechanics deeply unsatisfying when my group sat down to play it.

Sorcerers have narrative identity, but lack mechanical identity. In 3e they were the spontaneous caster counterpart to the prepared caster Wizard. Now that Wizards are spontaneous casters, but better because they can swap out their spells, all the Sorcerer has is Metamagic. And Metamagic is thin...

For the record, Shifters are one of the new races from Eberron. They started in the 3e campaign book and appear again in Eberron: Rising from the Last War in 5e before going to MotM. The other Eberron original races are Changelings, Kalashtar, and Warforged. Of those four, I actually think...

And this is a good thing. Any hobby that isn't constantly inducting newer younger members is one that's dying. You can't just focus on the players you have because there's a steady attrition over time. People decide the hobby isn't for them anymore, or they find that between work and kids they...

Yeah, this is why developers are so reluctant to talk about future releases very far in advance. Lots of players take those words as a sealed pact that will absolutely be delivered on. When in reality, sometimes plans change, sometimes projects get scrapped or altered late in development, and...

Slightly less objectionable, but still not great. It only fully clears one of the issues I raised. How do you clearly and consistently depict it in the art? How does it function in-game with respect to lighting and stealth and disguise effects? I'm not saying it's a terrible or unworkable idea...

Well, I suppose this is the logical conclusion of their new publishing model. They're trying to pitch the D&D multiverse as the default setting, and they want a more official take out there than fan wikis that are a mish-mash of multiple editions, but they don't want to flood the market with...

A luminous aura of some sort is pretty widespread. The distinctive floating golden ring, as was under discussion here, is not.

There are problems with halos. For one, they're pretty specifically tied to exactly one real world religion, and don't actually appear anywhere in D&D. None of the Angels in the MM have a halo, and it'd be even more out of place on other celestial types. For another, how do you even narrate one...

For all the talk about the class's roots as an Aragorn expy, I'm amazed no one has brought up the dark elf in the room. By the time of 3e the Ranger had mutated significantly under the influence of Drizzt. The emphasis on dual wielding and animal companions both come from him. And that's the...

It might be anime influence. In the Japanese school of medieval fantasy, instead of drow there are "dark elves" that have brown skin and either white or black hair.

I'm not the biggest 4e fan, but I did appreciate the attempts to update the setting and creature lore. Reshuffling the lesser metallics to be Copper, Iron, and Adamantine wasn't a terrible idea. It's a shame it got walked back, but a lot of 4e babies got thrown out with the bathwater.