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There was a pulp-era character who lines up with the modern D&D barbarian perfectly, IMO, but it isn't Conan: it's Tarzan. The lack of armor, wilderness survival capabilities, quick reactions, and (significantly) primal rages are all there. The alignment is so close that I wonder if 3e's...

This is a non sequitur. I don't know why you brought up rule changes, but the comment about age targeting was in reference to things like this:

It isn't social media (or at least, not just social media), it's age targeting. BG3 is marketed and rated as being unsuitable for children, while D&D adventures include children and adults in their audience. I may not personally have a problem with certain content, but as a parent, I'd be fairly...

Yeah, in short: centuries of accumulated unintended consequences. (Well, unintended by certain elements of society, maybe less so others.)

I mean, it's a reasonable idea in concept: "Hi, everyone. We all agree that this is a good business concept, but none of us has the money to get it going. What if we all pitch in, and each of us will own a portion of the business?" "Great idea!" "Okay, but who's actually going to run the...

I wanted to triple thumbs-up this, but there's no way to do that here. Oh, wait: (y)(y)(y)

Yeah, despite D&D's unprencedented current success, the repeated rounds of layoffs under Hasbro's ownership have sucked. I mean, it's not like TSR ever conducted mass layoffs of its staff-- Oh. Well, at least pre-Hasbro WotC never engaged in layoffs-- Hm. Never mind.

Ugh, not this again. Every company, or organization of any kind or size, must have multiple priorities, which they (sometimes awkwardly, sometimes unsuccessfully) try to balance as best they can. The world, and human beings, are just not as simplistic as you keep making them out to be.

I did. But your claim was that a "mindset" (that "layoffs are actually considered good management because they increase shareholder wealth") was "killing multiple industries". You're getting cause and effect reversed. Layoffs (shareholder-driven or otherwise) didn't cause the newspaper business...

Are you claiming that the only reason local newspapers are facing financial difficulty is because investor-focused managers are conducting unnecessary layoffs to goose stock prices? That there are no other, perhaps more fundamental, factors at work in the long-term decline of the local newspaper...

You're saying that layoffs meant to increase shareholder wealth, apart from any other external financial conditions, are killing multiple industries? What are examples of such industries?

Your use of "usually" calls for evidence. Unexpected things happen (e.g. pandemics occur, supply chains seize up, macroeconomic conditions change), and companies and individuals need to adjust. That's at least as likely an explanation as the ones you presented. Business leaders aren't...

What was the Dragonlance Debacle?

How many companies are on your supported list, that would (for example) never lay off employees no matter how bad the financial situation, in accordance with their company values? I can't imagine it's very many.

They might, hypothetically, if a presence in DDB came to be compelling enough to increase the number of backers (or the total amount backed), and if the additional cost of fulfillment via DDB were accounted for in the project's financial modeling. That does seem rather unlikely.

They can care about both; indeed, every company selling to customers has to care about both. It's just that sometimes those concerns align in terms of action, and sometimes they don't. The corporate world isn't composed of those who think only of the their customers with no concern for money...

Just as Ghosts of Saltmarsh included conversions of Dungeon adventures, I suspect the two Chris Perkins Planescape adventures in which Shemeshka the Marauder appears ("Umbra" from Dungeon #55 and "Nemesis" from Dungeon #60) are good possibilities.

Imagine if one could use this argument in daily life. "Hey, that was a different version of me that <did some regrettable thing>. You're not going to hold the current version of me responsible for what they did, are you?"

I don't think anyone was "reactionary" about the statement you made above, which is quite reasonable. What they're reacting to is this: ...thus implying that the delta from 1e -> 5e is of the same size as that from 5e 2014 -> 5e 2024. And that's plainly inaccurate. You can't (or in general...

Imagine if, instead of Tolkien, some other skilled author had written a seminal work of fantasy in the mid-20th century that left its stamp on later works? Suppose that this person, a sort of anti-Tolkien (aka Neiklot), had written in modern American vernacular, and filled their work with...