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As someone who quite enjoyed 4e, I would argue that it did. Not in the classes themselves, for reasons mentioned, but mainly in the godawful proliferation of feats. There was a reason, after all, that Lair Assault existed as an "ultra-challenging" alternative to D&D Encounters; by 2011, enough...

Having played primarily point-based systems for a number of years (in the '90s), I find the idea of them being immune to power creep amusing. I quite enjoyed breaking GURPS with creative choices of disads, and came away from my Champions experience with a sour taste when my GM told me he...

I get you, and there are certain settings in which this is an issue for me as well, but... this isn't a new thing. (And maybe you're not saying it is, but are just using the 2024 revision as an opportunity to discuss something that already bothered you.) Of the 9 races in the 2014 PHB, only 3...

But in 385 you weren't responding to a post having anything to do with that particular hypothetical, yet you used the term anyway, so it seemed like you were using it in some more general sense.

Both Adventures in Middle-earth (5e adaptation of TOR 1e) and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying (5e adapation of TOR 2e) use the term Culture. Examples include Dwarf of the Blue Mountains or Dwarf of the Iron Hills, Harfoot or Stoor Hobbit of the Shire, Barding or Beorning or Man of Bree...

Why is it that you keep referring to any proposed non-combat capability as "hypothetical"? Are you suggesting that it's only a hypothesis that people might play D&D as anything other than a nonstop series of combat encounters? I'm just trying to understand why you use that word.

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Okay, I think I see the misunderstanding here. In this example, $25 is the profit margin, in dollars rather than percentage, from a sale of either a physical or digital book. You seem to be calculating a percentage profit margin applied to the gross profit, which doesn't make sense; it's...

That didn't happen. If you think it did, clearly point out the difference.

I would say that "uproar" sounds like the exact opposite of "people keep giving WotC a pass". What would you expect other than "back to biz as usual"; people living in constant uproar? At some point you need to get work/school/family/etc stuff done rather than spending all your time attacking a...

Are you saying that the authors could've chosen not to draw attention to sexist elements contained in early D&D, in a book in which written artifacts containing those elements are reproduced in full? I'm not sure there's actually much of a choice there. As a reader, I can say that if I came...

:rolleyes: I tried.

Huh. Is it possible you don't actually understand the difference between profit margin measured as a percentage of revenue, vs. absolute dollars (or other denomination)? I didn't want to assume that, but let me try to make this clear. For the sake of an example, assume the following: Physical...

No, we don't agree that the dollar profit margin is higher on digital. The point is that we don't know if the profit margin on a $30 digital book is $25, or higher than that, or lower than that, nor do we actually know what the profit margin is on a physical book. Either one could be higher or...

I doubt anyone disputes that digital products likely have a higher percentage profit margin. But profit margin in dollars is what counts. If we assume something like $25 gross profit on a $60 physical book, then do you know that WotC accounts for $5 or less on cost of goods sold for a digital...

Thanks; I was going to reference your earlier post with these estimates. The point being, we don't have the real numbers. If WotC is making $25 gross profit on a $60 book, then it's much more difficult to argue with any confidence that they're making even more on a $30 digital book. We don't...

If you don't have the numbers, then it isn't a fact (that digital books have higher profit margin for WotC, in dollars, than physical books).

I'll note that you have again dodged my question.

Your reaction (bolded) is exactly the reason why WotC can't do whatever it is people are concerned they'll do with digital products.

This isn't about the VTT (about which none of us has sufficient knowledge yet, anyway), it's about presale book bundles. Unless the problem, which no one has stated in well over 300 posts despite being asked repeatedly to specify their concerns, is the presence of a bonus VTT miniature in one of...