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And if we do, then I guess it will be; "Pffft! Back in the day TSR was blowing money on more things than you can shake a stick at, come back when Wotc starts buying latch hook rug kits and maybe we'll talk." :)

The spells are in the back of the PHB, alphabetically arranged, what does the index have to do with this?

I am choosing to find half the posts in this thread hilarious rather than lose more faith in the RPG community, in this context it was very enjoyable :) "We are doing amazing! Our main product has consistently been one of the best selling books on Amazon since launch, and it's doing great in...

Sept 1 2017 PHB @ #55 in USA, #10 in Canada (all books) Wanted to link some cool threads on the topic so I can find them; http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?570781-3-Years-Later-D-amp-D-s-total-Domination-on-Amazon-(and-Earth-in-General)...

Making rules in an attempt to prevent bad players from acting badly is a fool's errand IME, as is trying to prevent bad GMs from ruining player's fun, which is all the more problematic because it is likely to result in a worse game for the "non-bad" majority of players and GMs. 5e largely (I...

Dismissing someone who disagrees with a particular criticism you put forth as an "apologist" who unequivocally finds no fault in the thing you are criticizing is just bad. It is illogical and ascribes negative motivations that cannot be fairly assumed from the simple fact that they don't share...

To me, D&D is about role-play. Not just in the "talk funny" sense but the activity of trying to accurately portray characters, their interactions with others, and the world. D&D gives me a system for resolving things like combat that are unsatisfactorily resolved through RP alone. I don't like...

Honestly, sandboxes are why I came back to D&D and the hobby in general. I will still play or run different types of games and I have fun, but they have to compete with video games, board games, storytelling games, and other RPGs. The itch that is scratched for me when running or playing in a...

Well, as to placement, in SKT and most other adventures IIRC there is often a huge amount of leeway on where opponents are actually placed both in general and in particular when combat is actually initiated (I suppose this could differ on roll20). Sometimes GMs barely even consider where they...

It actually sounds like RP might be causing some of the "issues". Most of the characters I play would be more likely to finish off an enemy in melee with a "very chill middle-aged hippie woman who isn't nearly as bothered by the lack of tactics" than most other PCs even just a change to a "very...

Here are a few examples from this thread of viewpoints that don't really fit into those two options; (edited out names because I thought it might be less annoying to everyone quoted). I see a lot of people talking about adjusting for the individual party, and about...

Huh, I just re-read this thread and I still don't see that at all. I see a whole lot of people saying you need to adjust/customize things depending on the parties level of optimization/magic items/feats/strategy, and I see some people talking about strategy/tactics/planning on the NPC side of...

I'm not, a lot of new -ish players seem excited about things like Planescape, which I pretty much abhor, Dark Sun got on my nerves too :p (happyhermit hides now to avoid angry glares) and yet nobody seems to take Spelljammer seriously, not sure why :). But most of the actual players I GM for...

The fact that it made no mention of Basic in ANY of it's forms, the "edition" that I and many longtime players like me started with (coupled with the last podcast I listed to, where the hosts apparently had never hear of the Rules Cyclopedia) and my favorite D&D prior to 5e didn't exactly make...

There are a few aspects to the problem of "encounter design" formulae that get exacerbated at higher level simply due to the nature of a game like D&D and can only be resolved by adding a host of restrictions on playstyles or by the GM adjusting the difficulty for their party. At high levels...

Sorry, not buying this one bit. As a longtime fan I wasn't all too excited about those options, but the new players I talked to thought they sounded from cool to amazing. Since the survey asked all those questions about player's history and how long they've been playing they will have the data...

I wouldn't have expected that :confused:

It really seems to be doing well, apparently it sold very well at Gencon too, and of course Paizo sells direct. It has dropped down to #246 atm in the U.S in All books (#45 in Canada), which shows how hard it must be to keep those high rankings. Interestingly, it is cheaper on amazon than at...

I wouldn't be surprised if they let the rule go, just as I wouldn't be surprised if they give up on their low bloat strategy. The biggest argument against getting rid of the rule is in fact that there is almost no going back or at least doing so would be problematic, whereas the benefits to...

The reason for that, IMO, is because it exists. Only the most extreme fans of any edition are 100% positive on every aspect of a game. But it IS positive on the whole, it just isn't perfect for them. The way you are portraying the answers is like saying that almost everything is...