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So, safe to call it at this point? "None's" have it, somebody make the call to Wizards.

I will be the boring contrarian here I suppose and say a lot of 5e art exemplifies what D&D is to me. A lot of my favorite art from the past either leans more towards what D&D was or doesn't really portray "D&D" so much as a single character in a heroic position (obviously there are reasons for...

One of my "Local" stores has been doing curbside and "Drive Through" for a while. Health and or legal ramifications aside, it seems like they are doing decent business, though apparently puzzles are the hot commodity these days (I have heard that from others too). Mission: Fun & Games...

Hope you are back to 100%. Don't usually share personal stuff but just lost a once very close relative who moved out to B.C some years ago, due to Covid. Test still not back yet but either way, he was told to stay away from the hospital despite showing severe symptoms and died in isolation...

Hopefully you are just joking, but there is not really any harm in fixing errors like this. It doesn't fracture the player base or make anyone's book less useful because 99% of people aren't stupid/shifty enough to read it as "Sure small creatures can't use heavy weapons, but tiny creatures...

Don't like the idea of a bunch of errata for the sake of balance coming, but I don't think it's coming in general and we are getting way into the edition. Not sure that this is really "4e style" errata in general though. If it is for the sake of game balance (and not that they are tired of...

Rpg.net is a good place for 4e fans to talk about 4e, hard pressed to find a place where more people (and mods) consider 4e to be the best D&D. It has a lot of discussion about other ttrpgs. Games that deal with left-wing political issues get a lot of buzz there, but discussion of some ttrpgs...

Not sure if this is addressing my post but I think the OP was saying things along the lines of wanting their players to make decisions that are more based in the fiction and that maybe they wished their players would put more care into making their decisions based on the fiction, so that it...

To some though, the agreement doesn't matter, the very idea that someone could do a better job at roleplaying is offensive to them. Even if you were to couch it as; "That player did/does a better job at portraying their character's actions and reactions in light of their situation in the...

In most games and sports you can say things like "Some players are better at this or that" or "In this game they did a really good job at this" and nobody bats an eye, because why would they. You can also say an actor/writer/director did an incredible job of realizing a character, or they didn't...

ETA: Sorry for the unnecessary sarcasm Yeah, the past decade+ of constant growth in their sales has really shown the collapse is inevitable... Game stores are less dependent on CCGs than before, as Boardgames and RPGs have grown much faster. Out here in the middle of nowhere we have game...

Still not a joke, but if poking fun at my honest attempts to communicate is what you need in these times, fine. It's the least of my concerns right now. "The point"? You seem to be going from one point to another, that certainly isn't the point that I was addressing. They aren't pointless...

No joke, if you aren't being sarcastic, just talking about game design and rules. Like I said, there are specific and general rules, it's easy to make a game with rules that cover everything. ie; Player attempts something, flip a coin to determine whether they succeed. Obviously it takes a lot...

There are specific and general rules that cover most anything. You literally said; "If there are ''a few" rules ... ....then there ARE rules." Your argument is with Ovinomancer on this point, not me.

I'm sorry, but I think a large part of why you think it's a poor fit is because it doesn't illustrate your point. Labeling some parts of a game the "metagame", correctly or incorrectly doesn't make them any less important parts of the game. You can label the most important parts of many games...

So you are arguing that it's a binary proposition? That there are either rules or not rules for a thing? In that case D&D has rules for social interaction, exploration, pretty much anything. If it clears it up any, Poker games can have no rules for bluffing and reading other players, but that...

I could argue the terms but I guess we agree? The point is, great games can often be "about" things that the rules don't spend a lot of "page count" on. Adding rules for a thing ie; constraints or operationalization as you put it, doesn't mean that it will be more important to the game and it...

In Poker there are usually relatively few rules about bluffing and reading other players (to put it mildly), so when players are bluffing or getting a read on other players they aren't "really" playing poker? And it's only when you add more rules about those things that they become important to...

I had to check this myself lately, pickup is really cheap, Canada post wants $3.50 CAD for one-time unlimited number of packages, or $7.50/wk-free depending on how much you ship in a year. Now, whether it's the best option in the current situation ie; liability, cost, essential-ness, etc. that's...

Really like 1-5 but 1-10 is fine, much past that is only fun for me under specific circumstances.