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Page 1 of the SRD v5.1 CC-BY 4.0 is pretty clear.

Yeah, I'm perfectly happy with fixed stat blocks for Druids and summons. I hate when new monster books become new PC abilities. It just becomes "find the optimal damage per CR and then smash that button." Like that's not a deep or compelling strategy or tactic. Especially when its, "stop the...

Reading through the One D&D Paladin and Druid playtest, I saw this and laughed thinking of this thread.

Yup. WotC can't even publish a psionicist that the community agrees on. Dark Sun, as originally presented, is basically a total conversion of D&D. If I remember right, Planescape had like 20-30 pages dedicated to player rules, with the rest dedicated to lore and setting description. Dark Sun...

Rename it to a different game. Even if it's got the D&D IP, don't call it D&D. Let it be D&D adjacent. Heroes of the Forgotten Realms Champions of Cormyr Champions of Dark Sun Or just reuse some existing names: Heroes of the Fallen Lands Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms I agree with the 5e...

I think that's true, but I also think that different people get different value out of the OGL. Like one of the major reasons the community wanted the OGL was so that they could homebrew for it, publish it online casually, and not get a C&D from TSR's lawyers. Or so they could do play by...

Maybe not, but they're designed to be. They always have been, too. Old D&D capped out at 6th level spells. 6th level spells are the first spells you get beyond name level. They used to be so special that you got 5th level spells at level 9, and then you got 6th level spells at level 12. B/X...

I still don't understand why this problem keeps coming up. If whack-a-mole is the problem -- and, to be clear, I've only seen it a few times in 5e -- why do you allow in-combat healing at all? If it's just Healing Word, why aren't you banning or modifying that spell? What hill are you dying on...

So would I, if they had all been internal hires. That's not really the case anymore. Most Hasbro execs are general corporate executives. WotC's execs have tended to come from Microsoft, especially their Xbox division. The video game industry is a lot closer to the television and movie industry...

They are just so paranoid about losing total control of the brand. It really shows just how much they don't understand the hobby that D&D was built for. Matt Colville talked on stream a few weeks ago about working on Decipher's Star Trek RPG (2002). At one of the meetings with the Star Trek...

I haven't played it in over a decade, although I still do follow the game on streaming services. It was too expensive then, and it's even more too expensive now. The current set has twelve variants of a single card if you count the promos. That said, proxies have never been more popular since...

The fact that they could do that is why is why the reserve list is bad for business. Imagine owning a game and being unable to reprint the most iconic cards. The only people who it benefits at this point are speculators. Not collectors. They've mostly cashed out. Speculators. And I say this as...

Break the Magic reserve list then quit.

It somewhat depends, but in general I like when adventures sketch out the intended results when the PCs are completely successful, when they're partially successful but did not fail, and when they fail at their primary task. This often comes under a heading of "Wrapping Up" or "Future Hooks" or...

Something that fixes the balance issues with feats (which they basically did) and spells (which I doubt they will adequately touch) Something easier to prep for or easier to run ad hoc Something exciting That's in order from most likely to least likely. The one thing that the playtest has been...

Sure, but if it wasn't in the public playtest and it later becomes a point of friction, then it's hard to argue that it was well tested.

Feats were never publicly playtested as finally written, if my old packets are complete. GWM let you auto-crit for -5 to hit. Sharpshooter (under a different name) gave you an extra attack but all attacks that round were at -5. Yes, both of those are awful designs, but that's kind of the point...

I voted for it, but honestly I think the word "true" is doing way too much work in "I would like a true Gish." It always feels like what the Gish hardliners want is exactly the AD&D Fighter/Mage, without ever giving up the idea that the character is never more than 1 level behind a single-class...

It seems to me that because RPGs (TTRPGs) blend both games and narratives, that it should follow that any criticism should similarly use both game criticism and narrative criticism to arrive at style of play criticism. I don't think most TTRPG criticism really does that. I think most of it tries...

That, too, but that's not the only thing that happened. It's certainly not the tack of the forum discussions I remember from back then. But I remember 4e being criticized for being WoW just like I remember 3e being criticized for being Diablo. I vaguely seem to recall 2e AD&D being criticized...