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On further reflection, I'm rather more bothered by this reassignment of goblins as fey and thus keeping them in the MM. The D&D assignments of "humanoid" and "fey" are, ultimately, entirely arbitrary, and using them to declare that this group of intelligent creatures are now "people" while this...

D&D has gone backwards and forwards on that one over the years. The convention with 5e appears to be that you're either in the PHB as a playable species or in the MM as an entry, but not both. I daresay they'll swing back the other way at some point.

One of the very few advantages of the 5e adventure format, which references stat blocks in the text by name, rather than reprinting them, is that it makes it really easy to transfer them from one edition to another - when the room contains 6 orcs you just grab the MM for the edition you're...

Only ten?

Problem is, a few years ago we were saying not to worry about the cinematic universe and just focus on making a good film. They did that, and it still failed. Our track record with this isn't any better than theirs.

Cinema is dying, and streaming is ailing badly. And streaming is also replete with absurdly expensive and underwhelming fantasy fare. I hate to say it, but right now any D&D project (except maybe animation) looks to be a good way to lose of whole lot of money.

Not really a 2025 wish, since I think their slate of products is basically locked, but one thing I'd like to see is a compilation of "campaign starter" adventures - a set of adventures where the intent is that a group uses one of them and then steps into something else (be that the DM's own...

Nitpick: That's only true until WotC decide otherwise. Regarding this book: it's a maybe for me. On the one hand, I really like Eberron, and consider it the one setting that they've done well in 5e. I would like to see more. On the other hand, I've opted out of the 2024 ruleset for the time...

Perhaps not Elon, but then I doubt he was ever actually serious - it was most likely a throwaway comment because he was butthurt about the unflattering (but true) things published about Gary Gygax. But, yeah, if someone wanted to buy Hasbro, it would be kept very quiet. As for the board, they...

Nothing is essential, but the "Tome of Beasts" and "Monster Manual Expanded" series of monster books were really nice, and saw regular use at my table. I don't think I used anything else. I haven't moved to the new books.

On the one hand: yes, of course. On the other, sandwiches just feel too mundane for a fantasy game - they're what I have for lunch in the middle of a busy workday; they're not something for heroes of the ages (or would-be heroes of the ages) to eat.

I have both, and read one straight after the other. There's a lot of overlap. My general preference would be for "Return...", but the original is close. I wouldn't get both if I were buying again.

I don't know. I just know that I'm absolutely furious that WotC aren't driving people away fast enough. I've rage quit at least three times over this, and still they aren't taking the issue seriously enough.

Yeah, but I consider that a feature, not a bug. :D

Yes. I was running SWSE in the days prior to the Disney buy-out (so the old Expanded Universe was in play), and my campaign featured a recurring villain - the many clones of a Dark Jedi. I had a player absolutely insist that Jedi could not be cloned and that therefore my campaign made no sense...

I agree. I've been fortunate enough to have had experience with real world 'dungeons' a couple of times, and it wasn't until I had that experience that I appreciated just how vital light and light sources are. Removing the need for those does the game a real disservice, IMO. Also, IMO, I'm...

Replacing 'race' is a good move. 'Species' was the wrong choice for something that includes creatures like Warforged, but I'm not sure there were any options that weren't wrong choices. The article is probably correct about the move being doomed because of the need to insert another generic...

The big one I've wanted to run for a long time is "Age of Worms" (from Dungeon magazine), ported to the Dark Sun setting. Doubt I'll ever get to it, though.

Oops. Double post.

I'm suddenly hopeful I might get to play again in 2025. Which would be awesome.