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Customer A to themselves: "Wow! Whether through accident or design so many of my issues with previous editions have been resolved, not by things that were added, but by things that were left up to the GM/Table/3pp and not spelled out in the core system. Having specific core rules for certain...

You dislike it, that doesn't make it lazy. It's one of the reasons I and many others started playing current D&D (again for many of us) so I really don't appreciate you saying to me; "Well then, you like lazy design." because I don't. Talk to any writer, board game designer, ttrpg designer...

I can see how that may be the case (compared to 4e) at least mechanically and at least for some classes or rather subclasses which is a point in and of itself. PC's of some particular subclasses (ones without a lot of option selection ie; Champion and not Wizard) are perhaps more likely to be...

By "Cudos" are you referring to their scientific research principles, or is this just a half-assed, unclear way of saying "Kudos"? Either way, if "getting away with it" means producing an incredibly successful product, they sure have.

4e got flack for every class feeling similar, it sounds like what you are talking about is every member of a class being the similar. Unless you are arguing that the 5e Wizard class is more similar to the 5e Fighter class than the 4e Wizard class is to the 4e fighter class, in that case you...

Uhm? Fact check in aisle 9. In the past 12 months AFAICT the PHB has dropped out of the top 100 books for what, two weeks? (In the US, in Canada it does MUCH better). You can find the data on Camelcamelcamel or other places. It's basically the opposite of what you state, it's only short term...

Nope, "force" not required. After years of experimenting with systems that offer "support" for RP IME we often have a lot more fun with systems that offer less, especially when playing RP heavy campaigns. We still play some of those systems and have fun, but for different reasons. Back to the...

The audience cannot be seen or heard, roll to determine if they exist.

Burroughs, Edgar Rice 13-2= 11 Dunsany, Lord 9 Leiber, Fritz 11 Tolkien, J.R.R. 5+1 =6 Williamson, Jack 10 Zelazny, Roger 11 I can live with this list, (if I disagree about some early casualties) so I skipped a day or two. I never would have voted for Tolkien if he wasn't targeted so early and...

In reality I could care less, but there is still a fair bit of nose-looking-down directed toward audiobooks. To be fair, I still find dramatized versions a bit hard to take seriously and early on they were more common. Yeah, I really made a mess of that. Well, depending on your player it...

Fair enough, I will only feel sorta bad then, at least it isn't your most favorite-ist person ever that I'm targeting. I think you misconstrued my reasons for downvoting them though, it wasn't anything even slightly strategic. I just don't feel it makes any sense for them to be higher than a...

OB1, I feel bad about persistently knocking the author you are upvoting, if you tell me why I'm wrong I will reconsider (though I am fairly set against). Do you see influence on D&D or do you just like the author?

St. Clair! Why must you taunt me? Even if I didn't have issues with your writing, it's influence on D&D... just isn't all that much.

Like others have alluded to, for me the D&D influence is at least as much about the Hobbit as it is LotR. It maps almost perfectly to a D&D adventure, in contrast to other authors on this list have nothing that comes nearly as close.

I really wanted to stay out of this but I owe Tolkien a lot. I still remember getting a hand-me down copy of "The Hobbit" from my mom, who was given it by her brother, and I remember reading it to my little sister (and she does too even though she was very young). Managed to get both mom and...

Well, depending on the situation it might be an auto-failure for me, but I have no problem giving disadvantage for things like that, sounds interesting.

Of course, at least as I see it, a simple +3 would be potentially much more problematic because it could stack. Even making flanking a +2 is probably going to have more impact than advantage, at least a lot of the time.

What I see a lot more of (albeit from only a subset of posters) is more along these lines; OP: "I am not happy with X" Poster 1: "I tried "this" and it worked for me." Poster 2: "Check out this 3pp." Poster 3: "What exactly is your issue with X, I'm sure we can come up with something." OP...

Double post.