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Many D&D designers do exatly that. Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet made 13th Age. Rob Schwalb made Shadow of the Weird Wizard. Monte Cook made Numenera. Rodney Thompson made Dusk City Outlaws. Why must they currently work for WOTC for us to pay attention to the games they clearly wanted to make?

I don’t think it’s realistic to assume they can do that. It takes a lot of training data to build a reasonable model. WOTC doesn’t have enough material or enough talent. But it’s all hypothetical anyway, I suppose, until Cocks tries to slip it into D&D Beyond to appease their dudebro...

I think of that list as "ranges of dead-ness". When a game's growing popularity begins to soften, some might say its dying. When a publisher stops publishing, others say it's dying. But waaay down at the bottom is "I can't find it and I can't find anyone who's playing it". @TheSword's idea...

We've seen various clickbait titles that "D&D 5e is dead!" or "is the OSR dying?" which, I know, is just there to get a reaction. But the question is interesting to me because of how different this hobby is from many other electronic gaming hobbies where a core company controls the fate of a...

Has anyone ever tried it? If they have, have they ever succeeded? Or is this totally hypothetical? Is the concept of "withdraw" an actual legal bit of movement in contract law? Or are we just making up things to worry about?

I'm not saying this to be snarky and maybe you are a lawyer who really understands this stuff, but are you implying you found a hole in the Creative Commons that any creator of previously released material can use to sue those who used it? All the CC lawyers missed this across the four current...

"The licenses and CC0 cannot be revoked. This means once you apply a CC license to your material, anyone who receives it may rely on that license for as long as the material is protected by copyright, even if you later stop distributing it."...

I wouldn't expect anything more than what's in the 5.1 SRD just updated with new stats and new language. But we'll see!

yeah, I'm not disagreeing with anything you said. Just bringing up a point about why others are interested in it. I want it to add D&D 2024 versions of monsters to my Artisanal Monster Database and Open5e.

I'm hoping to see it for that reason. Being able to take the new D&D 2024 monsters they choose to release and have them in other formats like Markdown or use them in tools like Owlbear Rodeo with its monster plugin. We'll hopefully see new character builders built for D&D 2024 even if they don't...

3000 is plenty. It’s when you start to subdivide and then subdivide again that the sample rate starts to break down. 12.8% of Americans playing tabletop games is now significantly less. They don’t say what percentage were per country of the 3,000 so we don’t know what number we’re looking at...

A couple of interesting things. If my math is right, that tells us there are about 34 million people in the us 18 and up who play tabletop RPGs and war games. It also looks like there are about 11 million D&D players / collectors. One thing to consider is that the sample sizes get really small...

My wife and I were very lucky that we had our City of Arches books printed and delivered from Canada to the US just a few weeks ago. One thing I’m not 100% clear on is that I believe the tariff is on the manufacturing cost of the product, not the retail price, is that correct? That matters a...

More sourcebooks like Eberron Rising from the Last War and Ravnica. A bigger focus on campaign material instead of larger adventure paths. More books like Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Those three books are fantastic models of the sorts of books I like.

One thing people typically miss is how disruptive twilight sanctuary is to implement. It triggers a thing that happens on everyone’s turn but isn’t any type of action. So every turn the cleric has to remind each character to take their temporary hit points. It added a whole extra thing to do...

No, not really. My wife recently became an official business partner in our little enterprise and a couple of weeks ago she spent a good chunk of a day sending DMCA takedowns to scribd which had a bunch of our stuff. It's definitely whack a mole but we try to hit the biggest vendors. And yeah...

What really chaps my ass is that I give a ton away for free. I give away good usable chunks of all of my books for free. They're all linked on my store's pages. Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master is super cheap. $8 for the PDF. All my books are priced down to get them into as many hands as...

I just finished Animal Well on my Steam Deck and loved it. These days it takes a special game to grab my attention for long. I loved Warhammer 40K Bolt Gun — a Doom-style 40K game. I got some distance into the original WH40K Space Marine but it got kind of repetitive and I put it down. Rogue...

Yep. All of it. A lot of it still is on other places.

My understanding is that they will come with the discount codes for the POD by default. That's the intent of the whole project. Make it as cheap as possible for people to play 5e worldwide.