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I think these surveys are a great idea but by lumping options one and two together you are losing most of the information to be gained and putting too much focus on a small number of votes. Bard 51% very satisfied Cleric 38% very satisfied Barbarian 28% very satisfied At the...

The whole "we have no context" argument misses the point. We have plenty of context. These are all facts; People are buying tons of books, physical book sales in the US are up (while ebooks have actually dropped). Amazon sells a HUGE percentage of those books. Amazon has consistently ranked...

Players as a class have had issues in every edition, I have been toying with the idea of banning them since I first ran a game many years ago. I am not big on niche protection in general but I have to admit that players do bring some interesting things to the table, so on the whole they may be...

Ran it many times, watched/listened to it being run many more, it is a fantastic adventure when using the pre-gens or including their hooks and backgrounds into the PCs, it is still a good adventure otherwise IMO. What? No. I have run a group of 3 completely new-to-ttrpg players through this...

I started with Basic decades ago, the idea of it being assumed that everyone has a copy of the rules has always been odd. I don't see it all that different from boardgames, no problem with one person buying and everyone playing it. To cut down on rule reference problems I am more likely to...

I might have a different perspective than many in that I played for decades but was never a fan of the old "modules" in general. We played them sure, and I tried a fair variety from different publishers and systems and even run by people outside our regular group, but overall they fell flat next...

By one-shots I mean where a group sits down with new characters, plays a session, and that's it. These have always been my least favorite RPG activity to play/run/watch but I haven't really tried much to change that, at least recently. There is likely a parallel to how I feel about short...

Have never been a fan of "exotic" races in general, many of them attract and/or encourage player behaviour that I could do without. I have pretty much no desire to play one of these, I typically play a human. All that being said, Tabaxi have been a huge success with new/newer players (females...

IME the "side quests" work excellent with the pre-gen characters and their backgrounds/I/B/F. If you just plug in characters without taking this into account, and especially if deviating from the standard "heroic" group that is assumed, then the path the players take is less predictable. Not a...

In the OP it's mentioned that the PHB is @ #62 of all books, for a point of reference. So, the competition there is all books sold on Amazon or in other words literally millions of books. I am sure you can try to spin this as insignificant competition somehow.

Cool! Corpsetaker is back and making the same old posts but, (at least on the surface) respectfully now? Oh, nevermind then. Comparing Perkin's and other writers work to kids putting hand prints all over really nice art, nope.

Mostly the point I was trying to make, since you are relatively new to the system and I hear a lot of comments otherwise, is that it's not like D&D hasn't tried these things in the past. A lot of people don't know that you could get digital copies of AD&D 20+ years ago and it came with character...

Thanks, decent then but not amazing.

What's the paper like? Plain old printer paper is too thin, but I doubt these are much better or it would have been mentioned.

You probably weren't around for 4e. With that system they were very close to the approach you are referring to. The rules were very close to ever evolving because the approach to errata was to constantly tweak powers, DCs, rules, etc. They also had means of distributing these things digitally...

I have seen MUCH more of that type of behaviour from adults than kids (especially when playing with adults). Adults often feel self conscious about taking things too seriously in a way some kids don't. As for playing with "like-minded people" being most important, Oh Heck NO! Best games ever...

Ignoring the substance of posts and responding with derision and sarcasm certainly does sound like the easiest and best way to have an intelligent and productive discussion.

The idea that a system not having "adventures" for a particular thing means that the system has no support for them is a strange perspective to me. I have played many systems over the years that had no adventures, or had adventures that only covered a small percentage of what the system was...

It's worse than that even, a free pass is one thing but many even applaud this "Glacial" release schedule. Heck, some even went back in time to before 5e was released and told Wotc that they wanted this type of release schedule. How's that for a free pass. I just don't get where these people...

The last 3 Adventures exceeded my expectations, got more use and enjoyment out of them than many other RPG products I have bought, even if I never run them as is in a stand alone campaign. Nothing to make me hesitate on this adventure, so I am pretty excited to see it, something big would have...