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1) If we keep arguing over the same points, it is called a circular argument.....or do we need to debate the meaning of this too?! 2) They can call it “Susan" if they want and their customers will call them fools for that. At the moment, their customers are calling them fools. 3) This debate...

Oh...and this ridiculous circular argument isn’t causing any confusion at all, is it?! D&D doesn’t have an exclusive authority over the use of English terms for book publications. They have created a marketing own goal by attempting to enforce this. It all just looks ridiculous. Honestly, had...

This is pretty circular. There is no such exclusive term as ‘D&D Edition’. There are different editions of D&D just like any other book or game.

Simply not true. A new edition could simply mean a few corrections. I have Call of Cthulhu 1st through to 7E and the first 6 editions had barely any changes at all, with the 7E requiring about half a page of conversion notes. The same is true of multiple games and books of all types. All...

The ‘implications’ are correct though. It has new rules, which change old rules, and requires new books to be up to date. All of this is implied by the term ‘new edition’. To try and describe it in any other term is in denial. Why would anybody be concerned about ‘backwards compatibility’ at all...

It needs to be noted that D&D Beyond are currently defining any notion of their being a new edition on their site as “trolling”. While I understand the concerns of not wanting to deter existing customers, but tying yourselves into verbal knots and treating the term ‘edition’ as if it is a dirty...

WotC are becoming very weird and paranoid recently.

This is about the first bit of news about the new D&D edition (not a new edition) that has actually made me interested in it.

I don’t have any problem with ‘psychic’ magic using Classes. It’s all just fluff to me that an Aberrant Sorcerer or a Great Old One Warlock is classified as ‘psychic’. However, I think including psychic martial Classes is a waste of an opportunity to get some more compelling archetypes for...

Oooh....can I play a Mindflayer?

Well, I’d consider them big and strong by their description. Anyway, I think the changes in the ‘species’ is swings and roundabouts really. Half-Elves and Half-Orcs are being replaced as far as I am aware - and Half-Elves aren’t ‘big and strong’ particularly. There are dozens to choose from...

Are Dragonborn not ‘big and strong’ or have they been ommitted?

Probably true. I’m in two minds about the 2024 updates, in all honesty. While it would be nice to see some tweaks - like fixing the Ranger (is that happening?) - some of the other changes (like introducing psionic fighters and rogues as core) leave me a bit cold. At the moment, because I am...

Slightly askew question, but with the new, snazzy, updated D&D5E (Not A New Edition!) coming out soon, will WotC make the old 5E (2014) core books available as purchasable PDFs on drivethrurpg to go along with all the other previous D&D editions?

I do think that the whole need to ‘balance’ magical and non magical classes is a bit overstated too really. Not everyone wants to play a super-powered character. Wasn’t it the case that some poll showed the most popular character Class is still the Champion-style Fighter? I would just prefer the...

Not me. I would just prefer if the game stopped escalating the power at all levels generally with every new publication.

I’m not certain that D&D is contending with video games as much as people assume. D&D should set it own standards on such things as its own tabletop medium. I guess it depends on how inclusive and generic a fantasy RPG you want to make D&D. Other fantasy RPGs - including alternative forms of...

Compared to the number of magic wedding character types, that is a minuscule fraction that don’t use some sort of magic (and it looks like the Assassin will be removed). It isn’t reflective of the type of fantasy we see in fantasy books or even movies. It just feels like fantasy superheroes to me.

Thanks. Not really keen on the Psi Knight or the Soul Knife then, but this is the same issue for me as the Eldritch Knight and the Arcane Trickster. That is, I’d have preferred they included more non-magical, non-psychic, and generally non- super-powered archetypes for these traditionally...

I’m not sure if I really like the addition of Psi-SubClasses as of yet. Can somebody remind me how psionic powers work in D&D? Are they significantly different from the normal magic systems?