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I hope you realized after writing this how easy it is to turn around. In the situation you describe, would your spouse have a case to deny your divorce request by pointing out that your marriage agreement was perpetual? (To be clear, in most legal jurisdictions I know of, they wouldn't.) Your...

I've never played in Eberron or consider myself a fan, particularly, but that is a property I would love to see in a well-funded series. The setting seems tailor-made for longer-form storytelling, as opposed to tentpole movies.

All's well that ends well. I don't know how the grapevine worked, exactly, but I received a surprise email from Wolfgang this afternoon, and KP plans to update the next digital and print editions of Creature Codex with credits. To whomever passed this along, thanks! And thanks to Wolfgang and KP...

My daughter and I designed a monster for KP's Monarch of the Monsters contest in 2015 (the gargoctopus), the terms for which clearly limited use of the material to the contest. After feedback provided via a couple of articles on KP's site, I submitted a revised version for inclusion in the...

It seems an appropriate time to bring this up... I have to say, in relation to Kobold Press specifically, I find myself sympathizing with WotC to some extent. ================ WotC: "Hey, you published our IP without properly crediting us, or paying us any money!" Kobold Press: "We're...

You had said: But now you're assuming they would've had some other choice. If the original OGL had included royalty terms, and upon the release of 4e Paizo faced a choice of the GSL (to continue publishing official D&D content) or the royalty-encumbered OGL, they might very well have forged...

And that's fine. I'm sure there are many D&D players who feel the same. But this video, and the messaging in it, was for Hasbro investors (and potential investors); it wasn't targeted to you, or gamers in general.

What else would you expect him to say? "We think D&D has the potential to be a global brand on par with Marvel, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings... but we're fine with how much we're making now, so it's all good."? As a HAS investor and D&D fan, I'm glad they're thinking of ways to make D&D...

In digital (usually "free-to-play") games, yes, "recurrent spending" usually means micro-transactions. D&D is much bigger than some mobile game, though. Recurring revenue also means subscriptions, which is already a feature of DDB, and probably a big part of what it made it financially appealing...

Or it's ongoing subscription revenue from people who've already purchased the books, from people like me, and nothing new. This could very well be just an observation that D&D Beyond gives WotC the opportunity to earn recurring revenue.

I appreciate your desire to interpret SupergeekMike's arguments charitably. And I don't have a problem with a lot of the video. If he had kept it to, "Hey, I found this rule that existed in old versions of D&D which don't appear in later editions, but I think it'd be interesting to explore the...

There were so few of us, and Boomers were in charge for so long, we could hardly be blamed for anything. 😇

In an attempt to better understand your position: For comparison, can you provide examples of other "complete" games comprised of one or a small number of first-party publications, that need and perhaps have no third-party support, with scope similar to D&D? (I.e. that allow for creation of a...

So, you're saying the basic D&D product should contain thousands of monsters, all the adventures that could ever be played, and every version of exploration rules that any table might want? That would resolve "huge gaps" you've identified? That would make for a pretty big book; I'd hate to see...

I won't argue that.

What's a problem for you, however, is just peachy for someone else, and vice versa. Which this thread highlights; WotC literally cannot please everyone on every point. But has WotC produced "a good, functional, complete game" which "works at a basic level"? Millions of D&D players seem to think so.

Except that the scout knows Thieves' Cant for some reason, and is skilled with thieves' tools (not a ton of locks to pick out in the wilds!), and doesn't know how to use a longbow. The smaller hit die isn't great, either. I was really hoping that 1D&D was going to relegate Thieves' Cant and...

I've been looking around for some discussion about this, but haven't seen any. Other folks noticed Daredevil showing up in the trailer, right? There's a distinctive jump-kick that caught my attention, and if you freeze it just right, a thrown billy club.

True, but it's a little less of a boost when you consider that crit damage for sneak attack would be removed.

But the absence of racism, even fantasy racism, was an element of the original setting. It was one of the interesting points that set Zakhara apart from other settings, even elsewhere in the Forgotten Realms. Quoting from Arabian Adventures (1992): There was also a note that even normally...