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It's always been a taste thing I think. RtwP was away to try and smooth out the experience for people that aren't as interested in the number crunching and minutiae. I still like it, but I don't begrudge people that don't enjoy it. Back when BG came out, there were a lot of people complaining...

This definitely feels like a casualty of the new 4 quarter plan. If there's one obvious area of growth for D&D, it's the video game area. Wizards has completely missed the whole isometric RPG revival (Obsidians's Pillars of Eternity, Larians's Divinity, InExile's Wasteland and Torment...

Did the Saga era coincide with the Fifth Age books? I never played the tabletop Dragonlance, but I always got the impression DL was driven by the novels, which seemed to nosedive in quality around that time.

Time spent on this website reading and complaining about D&D... I do not want to compare time surfing the internet for D&D to game time stats, too scary!

I'm really curious where this goes. My gut feel is that a lot of this is just posturing. "Here is the 1.1 OGL that specifically says video games, VTTs, and electronic tooling were never supported under the OGL, so we at WoTC reserve the right to sue any competitors to D&D Beyond or the official...

Wasn't D&D Next available in PDF as well? I'm mostly a digital DM these days, which means sailing the seven seas if I want a PDF version of any 5e product I own dead tree. Wizards answer is to use DDB, which isn't everyone's cup of tea.

Well, in D&D terms, we did. I'd argue 5e doesn't do that anymore. There's very few options books (Xanathar and Tasha); even adventures are infrequent annual hardcovers instead of monthlies. Is that better? I don't know. Paizo fans have to be happy with the Pathfinder cadence. I sometimes miss...

I'm more of a 5e fan then Pathfinder, so I was actually considering the opposite, running Skulls & Shackles in 5e Spelljammer. Hope it goes well for you!

I think if OGL was a Trojan Horse, Wizards would have sued the Nine Hells of Baator out of Paizo right around when they stopped being a direct support to D&D and started being a legitimate competitor. Unless the spirit of TSR has taken over Wizards, or something insidious has happened over at...

As much as chide Wizards of the Coast for the lack of world building in 5e and the lack of support for established settings, Eberron is clearly the exception to the rule. Congrats to Eberron fans and many kudos to Keith Baker and everyone else supporting this setting.

Same here. I was debating on running a Spelljammer campaign, but there doesn't seem to be enough meat in the 5e boxset, which means a lot of work for me come with the elements I think are missing or steal from 2e. And I totally agree that a lot of the 2e TSR stuff was low grade filler, I was...

I think based on Ben Riggs reporting, later 2e settings like Spelljammer and Planescape were absolute failures (not relative to other editions!), including numerous products with negative margins: every copy sold at a loss. I'm not advocating for the bad old days of two box sets a year and a...

I pretty much agree with everything in this article. I keep comparing it to the old 2e boxset, which wasn't honestly that much shorter in page length. But without an adventure and a full bestiary, it gave them a lot more room to explore the universe of Spelljammer and give a little more crunch...