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This analysis is very interesting, and highlights just how much players will rely on consumables over permanent items.

You are welcome! And, in play, you may be surprised by 5E. And if you hate it, then you can honestly say that you gave it a shot and continue playing an edition you love. The issue with WotC continuing support seems to be part of their new strategy since 4E fell; they appear to be supporting...

Interplanar invasion of the Material Plane happened on Golarion, Eberron, Faerun, Greyhawk... That's 100% of the official campaign worlds I know anything about. I am not certain of the rates of it happening in others, but I suspect worlds it hasn't happened in are pretty rare. Which doesn't...

The mining in the Manual of the Planes is overseen by the Dao, mostly. Who use slaves to keep the cavern they're in from collapsing and tunnels maintained. It's mentioned as part of inter-planar trade going on. The issue with mining not being converted to mining the Elemental Plane is easy...

My apologies. My wording was horrible.

If you have the possibility of large numbers of demons or angels crossing planar boundaries in some way, you already have the capacity for bulk transport of materials. It might be an issue on a setting like Eberron. I can't really think of many others where it would be. The rules of the...

I feel sorry because they invested with the hope that it would come about and they would get the program advertised. And, instead, they get nothing except a guilt trip and disappointment.

The correct answer is that platinum, gold, silver, and copper are vastly overvalued in the typical DnD-esque world. The reason is that the real-world rarity values simply do not apply; they have a potentially-endless source of coinage thanks to the elemental plane of Earth. Which means that the...

As you trek along in your internet wanderings, you suddenly get the sense something is wrong. Up in the sky outside your window, you can see several incoming boulders, fired from orcish catapults off in the distance. As they reach the apex of their arc towards your house, you can see they spell...

Ah! I was wrong on the encounters. My mistake! I need to pick up the DMG this weekend.

I think the lack of a number of encounters in a single day is intentional, so as to add flexibility. That way, the DM decides how many encounters there are based on the DM's individual preference or just the needs of the particular adventure. And it allows the DM to adapt the campaign to how...

Happy new year! Watch out for apocalypses!

I'm going to be blunt: There is only one true way to sell it or any other RPG. Sit down and actually play a game of it. Just one session. And, you can do that for free! The basic rules are available for free on the WotC website and can be downloaded at any time. It's simple enough to read them...

I'm more than a little leery of this. The graphics I can forgive... I play Minecraft and Baldur's Gate, after all. So I'm not looking for high-end graphics as a first consideration. What makes me leery is the style of it, which seems to be entirely about groups fighting each other, and the way...

To address what the OP talked about: That sounds awesome. Now, I have to get in a 5E game!

Overall, I have several reasons I won't fund this kickstarter. 1) Kickstarter- I've seen too many failed projects on it, so I will only fund ones from people I know will come through. If Pinnacle Entertainment, ENWorld, Beamdog, or Monte Cook made a kickstarter to ask for money to develop a...

I know this is based on an earlier edition than asked for, but it seems this is also appreciated. I started playing DnD with 3E, even though I was familiar with a lot of 2E rules thanks to Baldur's Gate (I was actually confused as to where THAC0 went the first time I played the pen-and-paper...

Even in the case of the first statement in this section of your post, it shouldn't necessarily be like rocks you can't dodge. I do agree with you that the PCs should have some reasonable way of learning about it; they're the heroes of the story, after all. I've had more than a few villains...

Is it possible they're using a different muscular base than humanity uses? Humans are primates, which tend to be pretty dense in muscle construction. A species using a less dense muscular system with a different set-up might be able to get far more power out of it than humans do. Add in the...

Yes. It's useful for punishing players who whine about doing math with the current AC system. One session of THAC0 and they never whine about modern AC again!