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That's not true at all. As I said above, Apple doesn't "cancel" the Apple Television that it's likely been working on when it decides not to put it out. Despite the existence of a large amount of proof it exists, you'll never find Apple acknowledging that fact. They don't discuss rumors, even...

True. But there's also a philosophy that says that you CAN overwhelm new players who walk into a store and see 15 books on the shelf and think "Oh my god! Look at all those books! This game seems extremely complicated. Plus, I can't afford all those books. Maybe I'll buy something else...

The way I like to think of Organized Play is a lot like an MMORPG. You create a character for WoW and then you can join any group of people you want playing any quest that exists in WoW. Adventurer's League is a lot like this but with tabletop D&D instead. Adventure's League consists of 4...

Except his excuse was "We never announced it so we can't cancel it." Which was true. Unless you mean his excuse was "We decided to reevaluate what support for an RPG looks like". Which also seems to be true. So, unless "he came up with some lame excuse" means "he told us the complete truth"...

The shareholders of WOTC know the company's profits will be fine. They sell Magic, which makes WAY more money than D&D. Their D&D plans don't even show up. Plus, I don't even think WOTC is publicly traded at all. It's owned by Hasbro who is publicly traded. Their D&D plans will not affect...

They can exist without being made public. But who cares if they exist or not? That's like saying that Apple has to issue a statement saying that their television set that has been rumored all over the internet for the last 3 years has been cancelled. They've never once stated they were...

He said "leaks" were not authorized. Leaks generally mean material that was not meant to go out. What Mearls is saying is that those were leaks, WOTC did not ask anyone to release that information and someone did it without their permission. He says that often share information about products...

Why would they talk to the community? The community is just going to say "Where's our books? You made a book every month during 3e and 4e...bring that back. We were comfortable with that and we want things to stay the same." The problem is that people like things that are comfortable. They...

I really don't feel the same way. The adventure needs multiple skills to survive and finish the adventure. The ability to fight and win is a lesser skill in the adventure but it IS required. I think the intro also works because the rest of the adventure has very little combat and for an...

I'm in the middle of running this adventure the second time. I can tell you my experiences with it. One of my groups felt very frustrated that they couldn't actually change anything. Nothing they did would suddenly "fix" the city and make all its problems go away. They were used to typical...

I think they would have stuck with Pathfinder even if there was an OGL. I've posted it before, but the conversation I overheard at D&D Experience when Jason Bulmahn was on the phone with someone back at Paizo talking about his experience playing 4e was REALLY negative. He seemed actively...

By this definition, a thrown weapon is a ranged weapon because it is used to attack a target at a distance. It says they are classified in the table as either melee or ranged. Which makes sense for organizing them and displaying them. But if you assume the second sentence is a rule...

Ranged weapons in the chart certainly do use Dex modifier to hit and damage. There's certainly something to be said that maybe the logic was that in order to do sneak attack damage the weapon had to be "precise", which means you are using your Dex mod to hit. But RAW, you can use a Rapier with...

Wait, where in the rules does it say a weapon that is used at range is not a ranged weapon?

Paraxis is correct. It works and you use the greater of the ACs among your two ways of calculating it. Either Mearls or Crawford answered this question in a tweet already.

You can sneak attack with ranged weapons. Whether it is allowed by RAW depends whether you consider a thrown weapon to be a "ranged weapon". Our group decided that anything that isn't used in melee is a ranged weapon. This seemed pretty logical to us. There is a category of weapons called...

I can't remember the particular book again but the only real guidance I've seen in ANY edition about how loud spells are was one book in 3.5e. I'm working from memory here...someone else with the book who can remember where it comes from should chime in and correct me with real numbers...

That seems likely. It's been made clear that they have ideas for 2 adventures per year for the next 5 or 6 years. It's also been made clear that all of them are playable in Adventurer's League...which means they all take place in the Forgotten Realms. Plus, it really seems like this edition...

I think this might be up to DMs interpretation. By RAW, you don't seem to have to be next to the target. But I could certainly see it being reasonable to say that you stop distracting someone when you are no longer in range.

They only need to be dictated on whatever outcome seems the MOST likely. Normally, this isn't very difficult. If they walk into a room of skeletons that are guarding the room, this is pretty much a 100% chance it is a combat encounter. If you set up an encounter with a troll that is guarding...