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The presence of Thieves' Cant as a feature of the rogue is highly annoying when trying to repurpose the concept, though. I've also wanted to use the rogue as a tribal scout, for example, and been vexed by the nonsensical proficiency with the Cant. It's a relic of when the rogue was still called...

Setting aside for the moment that I find the proposition of quality necessitating the giving of offense to be dubious... "Um... Demons? Devils? Never heard of 'em. <ahem>", said 2e-era TSR, nervously pulling at its collar. It's just funny to hear that TSR was so willing to offend people; that...

I'd have to see who said it and how before judging my reaction to it in context. Do you have a source?

As a counterpoint, I was a big 4e fan, and I've never felt antagonized by 5e.

"A hydra is a cool D&D monster" isn't enough reason to add it to a dungeon? Oh, what has the world come to? ;)

Heh. "Big B's". :p

I think the base Fighter is fine, which is why it won't be going back through UA. It was specifically the Brawler subclass that didn't make it.

So the players tell the DM they want to try one (or more) of those things, and the DM applies judgment and game rules to help determine the outcome. This isn't any different than role-playing has ever been, even when encounters used to be written as "There are 3 orcs in this room (hp 10, 8, 7)"...

I'll point out again that the typical price paid by a customer of the new Planescape slipcase is less than the price paid for the original boxed set in 1994 accounting for inflation, and incorporates approximately the same amount of lore. The adventure is essentially a free bonus (and I should...

Making an error is simple; pointing out and explaining that error always takes more effort. Cf. any well-developed legal system. But if you're saying that the posters to this thread have collectively written a whole lot of words addressing the mistakes in Justin's review, then I suppose I agree...

First, THANK YOU for this! I've been thinking about doing something like it since the first post, but it seemed like a lot of work. ;) On this point, Justin's review isn't entirely accurate... but it also isn't completely wrong. The problem isn't "room keys like X8 that list doors that don't...

The proprietor of the Sleeping Giant is mentioned in both locations. It's just that... they aren't the same. In Chapter 2 the proprietor has been changed to an orc named Greska. But the added material from Chapter 5 onwards was apparently using the Starter Set as a reference, and mentions LMoP's...

The Planescape slipcase (combined with the DMG for primers on planes other than the Outlands) contains as much information as the original Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set; more, actually, when it comes to certain things like the gate-towns. If the original boxed set was enough to run your...

You seem to think that a product like Planescape would sell as well, or better, with more setting material instead of a bundled adventure. Have you considered that you might be wrong about that? That the inclusion of an adventure with setting material and monsters helps the whole package sell...

Do you have evidence to support that the low page count hurt sales of what is apparently the fastest-selling adventure product for 5th Edition?

What about Spelljammer was a disaster, in a way that Hasbro would care about?

There's also the issue of budget constraint. A AAA computer game will be expected to make a lot of money, so it has a large budget for content creation. A PDF module does not, and content creation isn't free.

Books and computer games have different constraints. Tabletop RPGs, for instance, have page-count constraints that, compared to modern computer games, limit the amount of content that can be included, as discussed upthread (i.e. "deep but narrow" vs. "broad but shallow"). However, a DM can...

Following up: Any argument that WotC has "learned its lesson" given the presumably terrible response to the Spelljammer slipcase format should be taken with a few grains of salt.

Spelljammer was still the third-best-selling adventure in the early part of this year. Look at the data; its success is not just preorders.