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Once again, I am foiled by the absence of a head-smack response emoji.

From a modern perspective, it's funny to read that being "not as complex as other systems" was a knock on Basic D&D. (This is the OP's paraphrasing; I'm curious what the original wording was.) I do remember those days, though; complexity, in and of itself, was often considered a sign of...

And so does Hasbro. Digital Game Licensing is reported separately from Digital Games and Tabletop as categories under the WotC & Digital Gaming segement of the company.

Talk about obfuscation; you're mixing up numbers from two different quarters (2023Q4 and 2024Q1), thus confusing things. This article is referencing 2023Q4. But here you're talking about 2024Q1. And your conclusion is suspect. In 2024Q1, revenues for Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming...

London reached a population of 2,000,000 in the mid-19th century...

Go to Collections, under Homebrew click on Create Background, and under "Use an existing background as a template", select one of the 2024 backgrounds. Then change whatever you want and save it. If you have Homebrew enabled as a source when creating a PC, you can then select a new background you...

I don't know where this story got started, but this is incorrect. You can homebrew 2024-style backgrounds on DDB right now, and have been able to since the revised PHB was released.

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There's this, for AiME: Fan Supplement for AiME The material's of varying quality, as expected from such a compilation. It's good for ideas, though, and I've done my own versions of some things in there. For TLotRR, Free League is supposed to bring it to D&D Beyond at some point, which should...

Yep, there was an email containing codes for the dragon art book and the Gold digital dice set. I received mine on Sept. 3rd.

You hit the nail on the head with that last point. Three times the book sales sounds like a lot... but when the books still sell out given the increase in D&D players since 2014, where will those desperate players go? To buy the book online, thus falling right into WotC's trap to convert us all...

This is exception-based design at work. You're proposing that the general rule and its exceptions would be sequenced like this: Darkness: Blocks normal vision, but darkvision can penetrate it to a specific range. Devil's Sight: Grants darkvision that penetrates both normal and magical...

I suspect these are intentional. For one, casting hallow as an action is only arguably a problem; it seems appropriate to me for something called Divine Intervention, as a once-daily kind of thing. For the others, this appears to be the result of a new design mandate: nothing requires both an...

While I'm addressing items on KibblesTasty's list, this clearly seems like a misinterpretation to me: Hunger Pains. Eating less than half the required food for a day forces you to save vs. Exhaustion at the end of the day, but eating nothing at all doesn't have any effect for 5 days. A creature...

Also apparently fixed: Grappler feat wording on moving a Grappled creature, Giant Insect hit points, distance away from you that the Telekinetic feat's Mage Hand can be, Conjure Woodland Beings upcasting wording.

First, I want to address this: Not True Polymorph. True polymorph no longer ‘works’ since you transform back when you take a long rest, since True Polymorph uses temporary hit points, and those go away on a long rest. Makes the permanent part pointless. What? Nothing about the 2024 True...

There was also a concern about whether a free hand was still required to cast a spell with somatic components. The language now says: Is that a change from the printed book? (In any case, I feel that the intent is clear whether the word "free" is there or not.)

On KibblesTasty's list of issues in the 2024 PHB, discussed earlier, I see this item: Poisoned Misses. The poisoner feat triggers the poison when “they take damage from the poisoned item” and lasts “until you hit”. This means you can use it is with a Graze weapon, and then give yourself...

Just took a stroll through the Creature Stat Blocks appendix in the new PHB, and discovered the following interesting things (interesting to me, at any rate): We knew that the Bloodied condition was making a comeback, but I wasn't expecting to run into this so soon: Bloodied Fury. While...

For those interested in Tian Xia as an East Asian analog setting but not familiar with it, I can add some commentary. In general, I prefer Kara-Tur as a base setting for my own use. Overall, its adaptation of East Asia to a fantasy setting is fairly straightforward, which I know is one of the...