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I guess I'm confused. Microtransactions are already here.

I don't agree. 1984 was wildly different. The game was totally unknown to parents and entirely something nerds and geeks played. In 1984, the pushback against D&D was external. It was the Satanic Panic triggered by the McMartin preschool trial. It was an external group labelling all TTRPGs as...

Personally, I'd rather they remain together until Hasbro announces the license for OneDND. Until they do that, the future of third party D&D content is an unresolved question.

No, I don't agree. I think it's extremely easy to occasionally arrive at whack-a-mole by error on the part of the PCs or the DM, or -- probably most likely -- though accident thanks to the fact that the dice are really high variance in D&D. And I think that the high variance of the dice means...

I think it's okay if you're doing it because you're having whack-a-mole problems. But if you do, you really can't complain that the PCs want to immediately long rest once it has happened instead of pushing ahead through the rest of their daily budget. It definitely pushes the game away from both...

In 2e AD&D's Al-Qadim there was the spell Unleash Monolith, an 8th level spell that takes a day to cast and summons a gigantic 36-48(?) HD uncontrolled elemental which cannot be dispelled or banished. The elemental is nearly mindless, too, so all it does is lash out and destroy things. I don't...

Because atoms as we known them don't exist. Everything on the prime planes is composed of a mixture the four base elements. Those things given the power of life and growth are animated by the power of the positive energy element, while those given the power of death and decay are animated by the...

Carrion Crawler is one of the specifically claimed Product Identities in the OGL 1.0a SRD v5.1, so I would question that being in the public domain. It's a pretty weak name, but it's probably protected. Couatl is the Aztec name for a day of the week, also meaning serpent or twin. Death knight...

I guess that's fine, but I don't typically see a reason to have more than 2 short rests per long rest. Typically more than that is either irrelevant, or an example of a Warlock player trying to do something frustrating and stupid. I guess the real question is: What outcome are you trying to...

Well, I just meant that Matt had specifically been clear in the Tuesday stream that he meant that style. That sounds like Matt. He gets excited to talk about things, but has enough sense to check himself. Usually. It could be anything from a new artist, an agreement to do models, new designer...

I still don't trust them. My interest in D&D is at an all-time low. At this point I feel like Rhett Butler. I just don't care. I'm very excited to see what Kobold, MCDM, and Pelgrane Press come up with this year.

On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, GW has historically been pretty consistently anti-customer. To the extent that the community jokes about how badly they've been abused. With WotC this all felt like a big change! When I read about the reasoning behind Age of Sigmar, I felt more like...

You should check out his Tuesday stream. He may have reverse course because he said can't get the kind of results he wants without funky dice. He's meaning more like FFG dice or Genesys dice, not merely dice that are easily mapped to a normal scheme. As he describes it, the problem is inherent...

"Ugh, unfortunately, Matt is going to be unavailable for a few months due to unforeseen complications. We may need to just cancel Season 3, unfortunately! In the meantime, please enjoy our guest campaign that we're calling Critical Reroll with guest DM, Ttam Recrem!"

It's not my job to be open to WotC changing my mind. It's WotC job to do things so right and so well that I'm compelled to change my mind.

As I mentioned in the other thread, I think the biggest thing is that it's not an open statement of support for WotC and D&D. Given that CR has sponsorships from D&D Beyond, this might be the most that they're allowed to say publicly.

It's mostly a non-statement. It's certainly not open support for WotC, though. I think CR is stalling. More than even Hasbro is. CR have the issue that D&D Beyond (and therefore WotC/Hasbro) have been and, as far as I know, still are sponsoring their show. They may very well have...

Yes, TSR used to work like that in the 1970s. It's something Ben Riggs talked about in "Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons." I think it was book royalties that stuck around the longest, but supposedly they also used to let artists keep original paintings that they wanted...

Well, my point isn't that their opinions don't matter. It's that they're less invested in the brand at all levels. They're more likely to play what the GM is running precisely because they're basically out nothing by switching to a new game anyways. I've got hundreds of dollars in 5e D&D, and...