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1e PHB, page 39, "Distance" heading. In theory in AD&D 1st edition, the map scale is 1"=10 feet in indoor encounters but 1" = 10 yards in outdoor encounters, ranges and speeds all increase to match the change in scale, but spell areas of effect do not increase. Which looks like the AoEs...

Well, there's this one idea where you take people who are already familiar with your company and industry because they already work for you, and you promote them to fill openings in your leadership. Yes, radical and crazy, I know.

Well, another outside video game exec. That tells you what Hasbro thinks the future of Magic and D&D will be.

It's been up for preorder since the 18th of June (timed to match the first preview video, opening of D&D Beyond preorders, etc.)

Rumor is that the Rouge class is being held back for release in the planned Quest for the Grey Cup adventure; apparently the core class feature involves scoring a point of damage on failed ranged attack rolls.

There's a big gold "50" on the back cover of the Monster Manual.

And yet, Ars Magica.

Thank you. Thank you. (I do, however, want to note that "there's a list on reddit", without naming a subreddit, was an entirely useless statement.)

Yeah, so, has anybody actually written down that list of subclasses anywhere that it can be read?

The Roman silver-to-gold ratio by weight stayed pretty close to 12 silver = 1 gold, both as recorded in written records of official pronouncements and as measured by comparing the weight of Roman coins. Ten to one would, of course, be the decimalized approximation of this ratio. The 1878–1904...

Anyone who prefers Helvetica to Neue Haas Grotesk is certifiably insane!

Actually, it almost certainly isn't. Someone collected the reported numbers for various TSR book sales into a single spreadsheet, and the total reached for the AD&D 1st edition PHB is 1,557,371 copies sold through 1990. Per the numbers reported here, the 5e PHB sold 1,563,586 copies, through...

I mean, the MCDM RPG, in the third-largest TTRPG crowdfunding campaign of all time, managed to get a number of backers (30,177) that rivaled . . . the number of copies of the D&D cookbook sold in its first four weeks through Bookscan-reporting retailers (30,577). That's actually a pretty good...

It was announced May 6th that it'll be out in 2025. (The previous thread on the topic was closed for devolving into an IP law debate.)

The antecedent of the pronoun is unclear there. Do you mean the haters are the bad people with damaged souls, or that the gnomes are the bad people with damaged souls?

So, is the text on the back cover final? Because that text is calling the version of the game "fifth edition", with no qualifying adjectives, twice.

That's rather exaggerated. I grant the Comics Retailer data as re-reported for people outside the industry by Ken Hite in his "Outside the Box" column had serious issues, but they are the numbers we have. And in 1996, TSR was about 44% of the market, White Wolf 23%, Palladium 11%, and FASA and...

No, you don't. The license defines Product Identity. If you declare something as Product Identity that doesn't meet the definition provided by the license, your declaration is of the same legal effect as a declaration that you are the Emperor of the United States. The definition of "Open Game...

In practice, I find "My back row is three magic-users who were originally 9th-level rangers, carrying fine long bows" is quite effective enough in Pools of Darkness. After all, arrows fire at 2/round anyway. (The shop in Mulmaster sells fine long bows, so run ahead and visit the city early to...

I mean, it would be interesting if WotC revised its book development process to an "art notes first" model. It would at least theoretically be possible, though it would constrain the writers rather more than the current system (used not just by WotC, but pretty much everyone else, where you...