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Those kinds of powers did exist in older versions of the game. They just didn’t exist for Fighters, and might or might not have existed for Thieves, depending on how your DM handled their %chance abilities. What you’re noticing is that it’s no longer just spells that allow you to achieve a...

This probably isn’t what you want to hear, but… the things you dislike about it are exactly what make it so popular. Most people who want to play D&D like having characters that grow powerful quickly. They like having a lot of things they can do each turn. They like having a lot of classes...

It was pretty cemented before that.

To be fair, when you smoke tobacco regularly, you don’t really notice the smell of tobacco smoke. When smoking was allowed everywhere, it seemed pretty olfactoriaely inoffensive to smokers. It was pretty disgusting to non-smokers though, which is a big part of why as smoking became a less...

It’s also a pretty narrow subset of D&D devils that actually look like that. Between barbed devils, bone devils, bearded devils, ice devils, chain devils, the similarly diverse array of demons, plus the various neutral evil fiends… I feel like there’s no aesthetic cohesion among the fiend...

You typed a lot of words there that I’m having trouble parsing into clear ideas. Assume I don’t already share your opinion and explain what specifically you’re taking issue with and why I should care about it too.

Selling licenses to access digital content, that can be revoked at any time with or without a reason, as if they were consumer goods, is predatory because it is misleading. Ownership of purchased goods should be transferred to the consumer, if things are being sold as license to access, they...

Indeed, hopefully they do. And hopefully if they do that thinking and still decide to try it again, they lose even more subscriptions over it. Again, consumer pressure is the only incentive companies have to not make this standard practice, so it’s on us as consumers to provide that pressure.

That’s a hell of a hair to split. But in context, I was presented with the ultimatum of “digital only or nothing,” I said that was a false dichotomy and that there are financially viable alternatives, and my interlocutors refused to accept that, repeatedly insisting that if this content wasn’t...

Worse! You become a flip-flopper.

Just because you’re ok with it doesn’t mean it isn’t a predatory business practice.

Here’s a few.

Yes, quite sure. I’ll find one of the relevant posts and edit a link to it into this post.

DLC is an inherently anti-consumer model of monetization. It’s acceptable for small companies that can’t afford to compete in the arena of print media. But for those who can afford to, the only thing that keeps them selling physical products is consumer pressure. If one cares about keeping...

Good for them! I wish the D&D fandom was so engaged in protecting their own interests as consumers.

This was not the tune you and others were singing when this first came up. But, I appreciate you coming back to this (IMO more reasonable) position now. Well of course they wouldn’t think it’s worth doing financially, if they think they could make more by going all-digital. That doesn’t mean...

Oh, that’s no problem, I do too!

Eh, I’m from the special snowflake generation and I don’t use block function either. I support its existence for the benefit of those who prefer to use it, but personally I’d rather be able to see what the other person is saying and ignore it the old fashioned way. I don’t want to voluntarily...

Oh, that makes sense. Scribe has had me blocked for ages. I understand why blocking is two-way, but I really wish the forum would make it clearer when I’m missing context from a conversation.

Sorry, but I do think “there’s no possible way WotC could have made Dhampirs financially viable in a physical product release” is an insane position to take. If you don’t have a problem with it being digital-only, that’s a difference in reasonable opinions. If you think it couldn’t have been...