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Given his subscriber numbers, I was surprised he was on the list for the apology tour. But even he doesn't have a great deal of reach (comparatively) right now, I could see his channel as being the kind that WotC would want to promote. Before the Dark Times, anyway. His tone is always pretty...

There's a Chris Pine interview in Esquire that has this passage:

I just need my players to give me actions, not behavior. If they're in a room and want to search it, I don't need or want them where or how exactly they are searching.* Their characters, in-world, have more perfect information than I could provide to the players. If there's a hidden item in...

Personally, I think the DMG should be split into two books. One that would be filled with alternate rules, rules modules and dials, and various resources like random encounter tables, world building tables, etc. The other book would be for novice DMs, and would focus purely how to make a...

Man, I love how the comedy somehow captures the tone of jokes made round the table. The speak with dead, triggering the mechanism, the “Well that was hurtful,” even the lines about irony and leaving the room feel like stuff that happens and is said at our table.

Going back to B/X, this will the sixth iteration of D&D that I’ve gone through, so I don’t know that I really get “excited” anymore. “My D&D” is never coming back, so I’ll continue doing what I’ve always done: take what I like, and leave the rest. 5e does a pretty good job at giving us the kind...

“DM/GM agency” is a rather new way to express it, but if you do a search (here or elsewhere) for the term “DM empowerment” you’ll find plenty of discussions during the 5e playtest about to what degree 5e should put things in the hands of the DM. At the time, it was a reaction against the very...

This was an issue when the OGL was going to be unauthorized. It's not an issue now. Let's say you want to use OGC for your new product. You can A) contact the copyright holder and get their direct permission. What, are they suddenly going to say no to you using their stuff that they wanted to...

When discussions about THAC0 come up, it's common for people to say something to the effect of "Why not just use Ascending AC? Why subtract? It's so weird and off-putting." And I don't really disagree, as far as THAC0 goes. It's not really that complex, and it's a perfectly cromulent system, but...

What I loved about BECMI, but don't think it can really be replicated, was how it guided us to our game world in stages. I started playing when an older boy lent me (and later gave me) his copies of B/X. So when I started playing with my siblings and my friend, we started off in dungeons, as you...

Well, no it's not hard in and of itself. What makes it hard for D&D is the wide swath of playstyles across tables. Is the setting grim and gritty, where stealth is hard? Or do you want a world where you can have Batman/Ninja/Master Thieves vanish as soon as someone's back is turned? And how do...

How exactly is he "dinging the OGL" in any context other than explaining why WotC wanted to change it? And it's not like he's even giving his personal opinion there, he's just explaining the rationale the company was operating under, because people are asking him about that.

On the whole, I prefer natural language and dislike a preponderance of conditions, so I am not in favor of the rule as it’s currently written. BUT, it strikes me a wee bit disingenuous to take what obviously game mechanics terms and treat them like natural language. The invisible condition is...

The thing is, they already have a very functional and useful mechanism for microtransactions on DND Beyond. You can buy a book on DDB. But you can also choose to buy specific parts of that book for a lower price. If you do so, that lowers the total price of the book for you. You can purchase...

I would not say naive, but I think you're seeing the situation with the benefit of hindsight. I have no doubt WotC expected some pushback, but I don't think anyone was prepared for the degree of the pushback and the solidarity of the community. For example, Wizards announced in December that...

Fine, I’ll be the one to say it. Brinks is a home security provider. Brink’s is an armored truck manufacturer. Kyle Brink is the Executive Producer of the D&D Studio at Wizards of the Coast.

This is all Robot Chicken’s fault. They used the “I’m altering the deal” line in their recreation of this scene, where Lando says, “This deal is getting worse all the time.” If it was a picture of Vader in an elevator and Lando holding a dress, clown shoes, and unicycle, it’d be perfect.

I'm not sure what the point is of continuing to litigate actions before the about-face, apology, and releasing 5e into the Creative Commons. At least in the context of, "Paizo/WotC did Bad Thing X, but now the situation is different," and how that affects people's actions going forward. As for...

WotC canceled the entirety of their plans for a new OGL and put the whole 5.1 SRD in Creative Commons. That’s hardly saying “sorry,” and continuing as usual.

It’s not exactly random. During the early 4e podcasts, Jerry ran a 4e Dark Sun adventure. It used to be on the WotC site alongside the other Chris Perkins-run podcasts, but I’m not sure where it can be found now.