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You're in the city, hear a cry for help. In the woods with limited line of sight, you and the enemy spot each other at the same time. You're infiltrating a house, being careful, checking for traps and secret doors when an enemy walks around the corner. You approach the cave, not knowing what's...

Long-winded but also eloquent. The kind of speech one might expect from, oh I don't know, a bard?

Then your experience is far different from what I've experienced over the decades with a wide variety of DMs. Maybe 5-10% of fights we have any prep time at all, and that's generally knowing that a fight may happen in one minute or 20. Unless we're sneaking up on the enemy prep time is rare.

Now I'm imagining WOTC ninja's breaking into people's houses to steal ideas ...

Bards Anonymous would be the logical choice.

I think MtG is pretty important to HASBRO, but the D&D books? Not so much. Video games an other non-game entertainment do have the potential to have significant impact on the company's bottom line.

Which is why the containers weigh so much. Problem solved. :)

I always envisioned part of the cost (and weight) being special containers if I thought about it. Acid flasks are extra heavy because they act like grenades - inert and hard to break while carrying but pull a pin and the protective container has to be negated somehow. But I still think the best...

They didn't do a scientific calculation, they came up with a number that works for gaming purposes. A potion contains 1 ounce of liquid unless specifically stated otherwise because that's how general descriptions work. What are people trying to prove? More importantly, why?

I think people are really, really overthinking this. No adventuring gear weighs less than 1/2 pound, the weight is rounded up. They simply rounded up even more with the vial of acid.

These are financial reports which are held to certain legal standards. D&D is such a minor aspect of their business I see no reason for them to be deceptive about what's going on. I don't see any contradiction in what I've said ... we have no idea how well the game is selling. As long as people...

I don't trust it or distrust HASBRO's financial reports. I just don't see the point of assuming and proclaiming over and over and over again that it's all spin and they're hiding something especially when the only thing I see spin on has nothing to do with the actual books being produced.

I give up. I don't really care how well any company that makes a product I use and enjoy is doing other than hoping they will continue to support the product. I also think anything HASBRO says whether it's positive or neutral people will insinuate negativity as an automatic reaction. I don't...

I think there's a big difference between standard spin and "spinning the crap" out of it because that implies they're hiding issues. My impression is that the game is doing fine but barely registers. The spin is all about expanding into things like video games.

You just gave an example of exactly what I was saying. They aren't lying because that could get them into trouble they're just "spinning the crap out of their statements". Why would they need to do that if the sales were meeting expectations? If it's doing okay there's no need for spin.

Yes ... the indifference that has people talking about it constantly bringing it up and looking for any reason to say that the 2024 books aren't selling well. Meanwhile HASBRO isn't actually committing fraud by deceiving investors, it's just that anything positive is only "spin" that can't in...

So we had making up number of players and assuming that only 1 in 5 people at the table buy the PHB. Now it's taking the statement that the 2024 PHB sold more copies on a month than the 2014 PHB to mean ... I think ... that the 2024 PHB has peaked and its all going to be downhill from here...

OneDnD was also never supposed to be the name of the version. It was a label for all the initiatives going on at the time. Companies use labels like that all the time. What's funny is that they tried to avoid putting a version label on the game but everybody was calling it 5e. Now once again...