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I don't agree with the division of resources, but I do generally agree that 4 stats is a better overall design. Con being separate was useful in 3e when it was a way to inflate HP without adding hit dice, but now that's not really a thing. It's never going to happen in a game with "D&D" on the...

I don't have that data, upthread people are saying that Magic sales are growing while the game is shrinking. We already know that Bank of America downgraded Hasbro partially because of overprinting Magic. The unique card variations number show just how much collectors need to put in. There are...

I didn't make any claim that Dex checks didn't have the same limitation. I'm merely pointing out that even though Str can do things that nothing else can -- which seemed to be the argument upthread -- that doesn't mean Str is necessarily more valuable. In other words, you're making the same...

I would tend to agree, and I will also agree that WotC won't do anything about it. The issue with Strength is that the things it does are either very boring, or very binary. Strength affects carrying capacity. Which very few tables seem interested in actually tracking. It's a lot of...

I would absolutely believe this is some unreasonable or underhanded operation on Upper Deck's part. Neither Sean K Reynolds nor Patrick Sullivan had anything but horror stories from their time at that company.

Fewer people are buying more cards, and WotC is printing more cards than before. Hasbro has been targeting whales rather than the broader audience. "10,498 card variations were printed [in 2022]: 14.7% of all cards in Magic history [up to that point]":

Nothing. Multiclassing is supposed to have a downside. You're supposed to be more versatile while sacrificing focus. Frankly, there aren't enough dead levels for multiclass characters. Multiclassing is already so potent that it warps the game's design by pushing signature abilities to class...

Oh, fair. It looks like we were playing it wrong. Good thing that campaign was a one-shot!

For me it's simply the fact that once one creature saves, Instinctive Charm is done for the whole day. It's going to stop working sometime during the day. [Edit: This paragraph isn't correct; the ability only stops working on that one creature. But the rest of the post is just fine.] By level...

I really don't think it falls to the level of word salad. It's less concrete than it could be. However, it's only an issue if someone is willfully trying to misinterpret it or starts from a premise that it has to obey some arbitrary mental model of "this is how it works" or "this is what the...

I'm sure there are some people who will continue to use 5e, just as there are people who continued to use 3.0 instead of 3.5 or 1e instead of 2e. But I'm not really sure it's going to "divide the fan base" the way AD&D vs d20 D&D did. For one, there's very little to suggest that the 5e D&D...

I think that would be fine. I've long argued that it's the only spell above 6th-level worth keeping in the game at all, and the only reason to keep it is because is iconic and a trump card.

Like all true fans of the genre, I prefer my distance measured in Kessel Runs. In general, I prefer using measurements that fit the setting. If it's fantasy or historic, that's Imperial or American customary. If it's sci-fi, then it's metric. If it's contemporary, then either metric or...

They talked about that in a blog post last month. They're incorporating errata and reorganizing the books somewhat. It's also incorporating ORC licensing.

Ah, I see what you mean, now. That's what I get for browsing the web before coffee.

Honestly, the only thing we've even had to reskin to create was Entkin, and I'm not sure they count for the thread. I think all we did was kind of merge Tortle and Warforged, add Powerful Build, change them to Plant, and make them require water and air. Overall, we tend to prefer not having...

Polygon's written a bad article. This has nothing at all to do with OGL and everything to do with basic marketing. I've said this elsewhere, but right now WotC/Hasbro need to keep sales of the 2014 books as high as they can, and they need sales of the books printing before 2024 to stay high...

I think most people would interpret it that way, but no. I really mean a total overhaul. My biggest complaint is that I want fewer spells that solve adventures. For example, if the PCs find out they need to talk to a Sage that died hundreds of years ago, I want them to solve that problem by...

Sure. I'd wager that most American gamers that have played futuristic games have played games that use meters. I can't remember a Sci-Fi TTRPG I've played that hasn't used metric. It would feel anachronistic in a fantasy game, though.

Oh, that makes much more sense! I was so confused. It wasn't clear to me if it was the first book to have One D&D's branding or what exactly was up with the unusual cover. Following the link I do see this, now: "The Practical Guide to Dragons came out in 2006, and was followed by A Practical...