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Something most people tend to overlook is what happened before 4th Edition happened. It was only a decade before its release that TSR was about to lose everything, and the future of D&D was in serious jeopardy. Wizards of the Coast single-handedly saved the game as an independently-owned...

I approve this move, but shouldn't this be its own topic in another thread? I'm sure people who'd like to join in that conversation may have already turned away from this thread and its unwanted baggage. Just a thought.

@Joshua Randall If you're not being part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. Like I said, let the haters hate. Since you've decided to be one yourself, I'll just let you be and let you do what you do.

I can tell you the number of times the people at my game table were alarmed by the thought of playing a game that was being OUTSOLD by another game. It's zero.

I see it all the time. But I try not to give it more oxygen than necessary. So maybe I can offer you some free advice? 1. Stop engaging with obvious click-bait material. Just because some random person with an internet account wants to explain their unoriginal ideas and pass it off as...

I guess it bears repeating what I've said before: I yearn for the day when everyone can stop fixating on 4e as being the "failed" edition, the "controversial" edition, or the "divisive" edition. Just accept that (like it or not) it is just another version of the Dungeons & Dragons, respect that...

That's fair. There were a lot of shortcomings, and expectations weren't always met. That could be said of any edition. But at least here, we were given a clear goal and transparency for reasons why certain things were done the way they were. I can appreciate that, even when they came up short.

A lot of people tend to overlook the significant impact that 4e made not just by redefining the structure of the planes themselves, but grounding everything that makes D&D into its own defined universe. Monsters of every imaginable kind could be traced to an origin that not only made sense, but...

Here's one of the things I loved best about the 4e design. Monsters are less generic. You can have a standard Hill Giant doing all the normal Hill Giant things one would expect. But you also have alternatives ready to drop in for support, theme, and variety, without having to do the extra work...

At least we can see where improvements were made later by the time Essentials rolled out.

I think it's important to understand what you and I mean when we use specific terms like "agency", especially when it gets used so often that many of us seem to think it means one thing while someone else uses it is thinking it means something else. So explaining that helps, and I, for one...

The system mechanics for D&D are nothing if not artificial. I try not to worry too much in explaining away or justifying this particular conceit for an engine that is built primarily on artificial constructs and resolutions. There are other systems out there that are designed to address these...

A lot of the issues described throughout this thread could be considered among the common pet peeves of many. These problems didn't manifest themselves, however, but emerged as natural responses for a system that often lacks any clear or decisive solutions, and generally accepted by the...

Disregard.