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Some of these posts remind me of the people who claim that a modern tank is easy to take out because "All you have to do is throw a grenade down the tank's barrel." High quality armor was extremely expensive, if it didn't work it wouldn't have been used.

I use it for a general quick breakdown when thinking about what to use. Although I do occasionally pull up a monster and go "Huh, I didn't know it could do that" while running the game. In any case it didn't used to be as big a deal back when I first started DMing because there were fewer...

I wish they hadn't, it was a nice feature. It was also shortly before they started supporting more third party publications and the 2024 release, that may have had something to do with it.

I'm failing to see what your point is, if any. I think it was unfortunately an ill-thought out project. Many software projects fail, even if I don't really buy the 70% estimate because many of those failures are "failed to deliver everything initially promised" or "were in the earliest of...

We have no idea what kind of cost structure they had in mind. From the looks of it, neither did they.

It's only irrelevant if you're redefining the game and to the point there's no recognizable game being used as a foundation. I know some people go to that extreme, I know I don't and I've never heard of anyone in my actual gaming circle going to that extreme.

Even if they did have plans to make custom minis, so what? I buy minis now for my game, why should a digital mini be any different? Micro-transactions always struck me as the mythical boogie-man hiding under the bed to destroy D&D. You could never buy anything that would make your character...

Which is step 2, but is missing step 1 - easy and simple at a glance. I stat out details now and then for important NPCs or more likely swap thing around like what spells they have prepped or add some other details. But most NPCs? Most NPCs only have 15 minutes of fame if that and I'm lazy...

They've released some and there was one (a special gold dragon?) as a bonus for pre-ordering the 2024 rules bundle but they were never for sale that I know of.

I likely play too many video games but MMOs have never really been my thing. I've tried a few and I do play some online competitive racing games but the game play loop of the MMOs I've tried just doesn't have much appeal.

I think it was interesting what he said about video game development "In addition, Wizards of the Coast operates a central content development team that any of its internal or external studios can draw on. The idea, he says, is to have a 'set of artists and designers that are trained up on the...

I think they're just acknowledging that in-person play is important and to counter the argument that I've seen made that they're pushing for more and more online play.

If you don't use something like CR how would you be able to tell at a glance how powerful a goblin is versus a tarrasque? CR certainly has it's faults because no generic rating system will always work, but it serves a purpose. Personally I find it reasonably accurate. They can, but it also...

I discuss how likely the characters are to die when we do our session 0 with the understanding that death will never be completely off the table. Meanwhile we like tough combats which means there is a risk of death. A few sessions ago, the characters had just gotten done fighting some vampire...

Depends on how you define player skill. I've never really cared for things like math puzzles for example. I am not my character and if Alex is playing an intelligence 20 wizard but Alex has a hard time with adding much less math puzzles. Meanwhile Kim is playing a barbarian who's intellect...

I think it was simple - they gave a strict by the letter ruling because there was no way to satisfy people with whatever answer they gave. I don't see a reason to believe they ever thought the rules were perfect, they openly admit that they make small adjustments for their home games. But if...

I was a lucky roll away from permanently killing a couple of 19th level characters in my last campaign. Even at 20th level there were some close calls.

Why do you need "rewards" from the rules? If I create a new monster and it works well for the scenario I'm envisioning then I've got all the reward I need. I wouldn't mind details for making my own NPCs and monsters but I don't need them and can find general guidelines if I want them. It's...

It was the same with 3e and PF was frequently labeled D&D 3.75 by my friends who played it. Which brought along all the baggage like what you mentioned but also if I happened to describe a wall that didn't match up to the climbing chart then as the DM I was somehow "cheating". The more you had...

Serious question: why? I started creating custom monsters long ago before there were any rules for making them, or if there were any I didn't know about them. It just seemed obvious to me that since I was creating whole worlds that I could also create customized monsters based on something I...