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Unearthed Arcana would be needlessly confusing IMO, not very confusing mind you, but enough to make it not an automatic choice. "Is Unearthed Arcana allowed?" "Do you mean the book or on the website?" They already used the flip side of "Arcana Unearthed" and I don't really see the benefit to...

Tasha and Otto's Guide to Parties? Get it, parties? No, then how about Tasha's Guide to Hilarious Humour? My S.O is telling me that I might want to look into a product like that.

What works about them? Everything. I have found them to be incredibly useful for me as GM, to suggest for certain players/parties and for specific situations ie; only or primary caster of healing/utility/blasting magic in a low magic game. They can replace classes or fill roles when needed and...

Just thought I would check the day after the streaming event. PHB is #39 in all books in US, #5 in all all books Canada!

Let's see; Weekly multi-hour official live-play show (DCA). Professionally produced podcast. If anything overproduced AI convention shows. AI series last year. Very well produced 12hr livestream x2 (showed this to some non-D&D fans that know about this type of stuff and they were amazed by...

If I was just playing "a game", then I wouldn't miss much. If it was to be the main system I played in then the list gets too long to be complete. Advantage/Disadvantage Contests ie; grappling (especially like how Adv/Dis works with contests) Ascending AC Bounded Accuracy Neo-Vancian...

I think your prediction has already been proven wrong though, or will be very shortly. Give or take a few months depending on when editions were officially deemed released we are already at or past the point in the life cycle that 3.5 and essentials were released let alone announced. It could...

The topic of self-censorship and soft-censorship came up and there was some question over whether or not it was a "thing" or a problem. Like I mentioned, it has for example caused people to not write or talk about things important to them (like their own sexual preferences), not because of risk...

I could be wrong but I doubt you would consider something that describes a writer not covering an oil spill or a political scandal, or editing parts of it because it might reflect badly on someone to be "just another word for good salesmanship or being a pleasant person. Or people who have in...

I don't think the OT is anything to be concerned about, it seems clear that the passage wasn't having the intended effect and so they edited it, no indication they are backing off from being upfront about wanting the game to be inclusive. I do find it a bit concerning that some people seem...

Certainly a smaller market can see larger fluctuations. As far as the PHB in Canada though, over the course of this thread (last 10 or so months) the lowest it has been seen at was #51! At every other point it was in the top 25, and as high as #6. Two days ago it was #10, yesterday #12, today...

Well, that would also be true for every other book though. :)

I think you are right about humidity playing a big part, I do live in a relatively cool and dry place (in Canada) and have seen few issues. Wonder if the translated version will make any difference for sales in Japan? I do wonder about these variations, amazon.ca sales of the D&D books are...

Dunno, all my books are fine but I've heard they have been very good about replacing defective products. The amount of time that has passed for your might be an issue but I really can't say. IIRC returns directly through Amazon are on a timeline. As for the ongoing issues, I have bought the core...

Just to update; PHB is at #10 in Canada, #67 in US TftYP is already down to #1190 Volo's is still up at #747

Sorry but that has never made sense to me. I understand that it's possible but I just don't get WHY barbarians would ride halfings. So I prefer the dinosaurs, personally.

None of the above really. I am certainly not a collector at this point and not a completionist in general, but I don't only buy things that I specifically need or will certainly use. I buy things that I like enough. I didn't need a MM2 as I find creating monsters really easy and I don't go...

Then wouldn't pre-gens or suggested quickbuilds be the obvious solution? IME with new or very young players that have had issues like this, GM-guided or even group character creation in a session 0 has been useful. Whereas having groups with new-to-ttrpg players all pick from a selection of...

For me personally as a player, improvised actions being available are essential to my enjoyment of a game like D&D. I still like mini's games and there are some GREAT tactical board games these days, but if I can't attempt to do something my character could obviously attempt to do it just sucks...

Well, if that's a problem then they errata'd it into 4e (turned it into a auto-hit) :p