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It sounds like you have a well organized FLGS, but with the increasing rarity of gaming stores in general I suspect having a well organized FLGS nearby is the exception rather than the rule for most potential consumers. I haven't been into the only gaming store in my town in several months...

So because not all games are successful, they shouldn't even try? Even if a game isn't a blockbuster success, it can still be a good return on investment if WotC doesn't have to make a particularly large investment into the effort. And as far as it not being able to be repeated, they already...

To everyone who isn't happy with the release schedule and/or communication and/or direction WotC is taking D&D, have you tried communicating your feelings to WotC? Contacting them directly is much more likely to be productive than voicing your concerns and complaints on a fan-site forum with no...

Video game licensing could be an excellent revenue stream for them. Look at the Baldur's Gate game, it sold 2 million copies for the original game and almost 5 million copies for the series. If they get licensing revenue on each copy sold, that is a nice source of income where someone else...

Have you ever worked in a software or video game store? I did for a couple years, the amount of hate and furor I heard on a daily basis from people when they found out that the game they want has been pushed back was unbelievable, and just about every date we received that was more than about 6...

Hasbro is far from a cyberpunk style megacorp, in the business world they are pretty small. They aren't even in the Fortune 500. If they lost $200mil, that would amount to almost 5% of their 2014 gross revenue and would be equivalent to 70% of their 2014 profits, and would definitely be...

Actually the Open Gaming License (OGL) and the D20 System Trademark License (D20STL) are separate licenses. The D20STL required that the product also use the OGL, but the D20STL introduced additional restriction in exchange for allowing the use of specific additional IP owned by WotC. There...

Aha. I missed that the comment about buying the PDF was in reply to a post about Calidar. I hadn't heard of Calidar, and looking at the Kickstarter I wish I would have known about it in time to get in on it. I was really hoping Doc_Klueless has stumbled into a Mystara Campaign Setting product...

If you don't mind me asking, which PDF did you order? I love Mystara and have a fair amount of both the D&D Known World and AD&D Mystara products, but I always thought one of the big weaknesses of the setting was that there was no main setting book like Greyhawk Adventures, the World of...

2nd Edition Player's Handbook, p.85 Note that in 2nd Ed you had to declare your action before rolling initiative for the round, so the spellcaster doesn't even get to see whether their initiative check was any good before deciding to cast, and they lose their Dex bonus to AC making them even...

I don't know that the particular dragon encounter that we have been discussing is a useful baseline for the effectiveness of wizards and the impact of the concentration rules, unless you are trying to set the power level of wizards to "game breaking". If I recall correctly from the other...

How about a middle ground of one concentration check per action? That way classic claw/claw/bite routine would be a single concentration check, but a bonus action attack would still be separate? It would solve the problem of something hitting you 3 times for 1 point each being substantially...

I stated earlier that Fireball was better than Fire Bolt assuming the caster's primary concern is doing damage as fast as possible without regard for using up their resources like spell slots, in other words damage per action, not damage per slot. When you are in a combat where you are...

A large predator like a dragon isn't going to waste its time eating a spider or bat, it would burn more energy in the effort than it would get from the snack. Sure some monsters may, but far from all. If intelligent enemies decided to kill all small creatures in the area, they would be spending...

It would be unreasonable to assume that the average 10th level character is carrying around a very rare magical item, that level of rarity usually isn't found by characters until they are L11 or higher. I also wasn't assuming you would be benefiting from a concentration based buff given how you...

Okay, looking at the numbers, Fireball will average 28 damage, but with the automatic save will be knocked down to 14. Fire Bolt, giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are a L11 caster, will average 16.5 damage on a hit and 33 damage on a crit. Against something legendary, a 50% hit...

I don't know of any edition of D&D where familiars were particularly useful in combat except in situations of desperation. As far as the familiar getting spotted when scouting, why pick a familiar that the enemies will care about if they see it? In 5e you can change your familiar by recasting...

1) A solid structure to the world but with plenty of room to make changes and additions to make it your own 2) Things aren't just black and white, there are lots of shades of gray and moral ambiguity that can result in strange partnerships and interesting interactions. 3) Plenty of resources...

But having the option of doing X or Y or Z is the very definition of versatility. Versatility is about the variety of potential options at any given time, not the momentary peak power those options give you. The ability to stack those options together is how the "quadratic wizard" thing comes...

Because the fireball can't miss and hits multiple targets? Comparing the damage of a cantrip to fireball while assuming the cantrip always hits and the save is made against the fireball isn't a fair comparison. The cantrip is full damage if it hits, and no damage if it misses. The fireball...