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As you mention, and as a longtime Everquest player back in the late 90s and early 2000s, there were definitely clear roles in EQ of the tank, healer, and DPS (and crowd control, you're right) and these were wired into bosses in EQ before WOW was even released. The concept of roles may not have...

Is it me or does it feel like WOTC is strangely silent on the 3d VTT? It feels like I haven't heard anything about it in months. I'll make a big hairy prediction you can call me out on later. I don't think the 3D VTT, if and when it comes out, is going to be a big deal at all for one major...

The big power creep of weapon masteries is the only thing that jumps out as a possibility. We'll have to see the more play we have but they're already ubiquitous in the games I'm playing. The problem with power creep is that once its out there, there's no take backs. Look at the continual...

You’re right in one regard — even with the expert opinions we’re seeing in this thread. There’s Nobel-prize winning research talking about how experts suck at prediction. The doom and gloom has been going on much longer than 10 years. I have memories of Gencon back in the mid 4e days where we...

The only issue that matters to most of is is finding good groups to play with. If we have a good source for that, whatever happens to the company, the brand, or future products doesn’t matter too much.

I honestly don’t know. D&D Beyond’s acquisition being the catalyst is just a hypothesis.

Its acquisition might have been.

You bet!

Most, if not all, the monsters are available online: https://open5e.com/monsters They're also pretty reskinnable. Starter set adventures, for me, are just as useful as small drop-in adventures. Thousands of campaigns built off of Phandelver.

They've been doing that for the past ten years, haven't they? Lost Mine of Phandelver Tales of the Yawning Portal Ghosts of Saltmarsh Dragon of Icespire Peak Candlekeep Mysteries Radiant Citadel Keys to the Golden Vault Dragons of Stormwreck Isle Whether you consider these easy to insert is...

I've always said that level 1 should be a stern conversation and a fight with a giant rat.

Yay!!!

Yeah, I think limiting and selecting specific sourcebooks is a great way to get one game to feel different than another. I did this with my various Midgard games.

I know little of Magic and less of Warhammer but I know in magic, there are many formats, some of them community-driven like Commander. There's Commander Standard Booster draft Sealed Deck and so on: All of them are still magic but the way they play and feel, and even which cards you use...

Kind of? I think the first two often show up in the same game and intrigue can fall into a lot of games. There are a few intrigue-style RPGs, though.

I mean you don't add +2 because of your background or species of whatever. In TOV, for example, once you've calculated your abilities, you're done with abilities.

The Ray Winninger interview got a lot of attention but I failed to talk about Mike Mearls's interview with Stan! on the same channel. Mike brings up a really interesting thought that might have gotten buried in the other thread I wanted to pull on: The different modes of RPG play. Mike brings...

I don't remember my first game but I remember my first campaign in high school in the 80s. I thought it was pretty good. The characters fought the Zhentarim in the Cormyr area and eventually got Manshoon to blow up his own tower using a fully charged staff of the archmagi which sent all the...

Princess Irulan fades in It is the year 20,265. The ENNIE AI wars were finally at an end..

I'm a fan of bonus-based standard arrays with no bonuses granted from other features: +3, +2, +2, +1, 0, 0 Tales of the Valiant's standard array is also super fast and easy: 16, 14, 14, 13, 10, and 8 That's close to mine.