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Thanks to him for all he does for EN World and I wish him a speedy recovery!

Is that true even at high CR monsters? It seemed to offer less of a threshold when you run fewer higher CR monsters.

Teos Abadia did a good breakdown of the math of the encounter building system in D&D 2024 versus D&D 2014: I've also been digging into it, as have some fine members of the Sly Flourish Discord server. I've mainly been comparing it to my own Lazy Encounter Benchmark. This should come as no...

Two jump straight to the top of my list. I need to think about the other three: Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands by Raging Swan Empire of the Ghouls by Kobold Press

Likely the people responsible for blue gate were WOTC lawyers or lawyer adjacent.

I'll share my Dixon story. At the community summit a year and a half ago, Dixon was the guy who put a lot of it together. He was fantastic. He truly wanted to hear from the community, learn what we were thinking, and try to find a path to bring people together. His bosses did not. Instead...

You can also switch to A5e or Tales of the Valiant.

Some great ones in this thread. Here are some off the top of my head with some recency bias. The Thing Prince of Darkness The Ritual Bone Tomohawk Midsommar Hereditary The Witch The Wicker Man Color Out of Space Hellraiser 2 Dawn of the Dead Get Out

Given that there are so many 5e variants out now – three big ones from three different publishers – I don't think there really is a "third party" anymore. Instead, there are many publishers publishing 5e compatible material. When it comes to favoring products from WOTC, I think WOTC's art...

I just built a bunch of pregens for a game I'm running and converted two of my Adventurer's League characters to 2024 and the background step is the clunkiest part by far. It'd have been so much better if the default was adding bonuses during the ability score step and the feat being a separate...

My understanding is that their new distributor doesn’t distribute to Walmart or Target.

My understanding is that they are not.

As far as playing online is concerned. There's playing online and there's needing D&D tools to do so. You can play online with all physical tools and a phone with some sort of group chat. I had a player who played for years without using any other digital tool than his phone. He didn't have a...

They hired a Blizzard executive to take over Wizards of the Coast who replaced a former Amazon / Microsoft executive who worked in digital gaming. The D&D VP (who I think moved somewhere else now) was another former Microsoft digital guy. The new Project Architect job has a "particular focus on...

In case folks are interested, I recently posted this article and talked about AI use in RPGs on my Talk Show.

I'm not a fan of Chris Cocks. I'm not a fan of Hasbro. I'm a fan of the RPG hobby. I love it to death. I fail to see how making joke about a rich CEO is toxic fandom towards the RPG hobby but I guess we each get to decide what that means to us.

I'll try to be nicer to multi-millionaire CEOs of billion-dollar companies.... I'm sure me making fun of him is less stressful to him than he attacking my entire business and hobby back in 2023 was to me. Also, I don't hang around Goldman Sachs "Communacopias" so I doubt he cares what I have...

I think there might be both. My A5e game doesn't use any other material except A5e stuff. That's just the focus I want to have on this particular campaign. I'm about to run a Tales of the Valiant campaign and it too is going to be just Tales of the Valiant. We don't need anything else. We could...

I'd say there probably isn't even a 5e community. There are lots of different little communities wrapped up around different things and we bounce around from community to community. A community might be as small as five people you have sitting around a table. We each can decide what we want to...