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It's okay to not like things. It's doesn't mean you have to act a certain way about it. Some people get so mad about anything to do with Critical Role!

I disagree that stakes have to be fundamentally different at high levels, and indeed I feel that this often leads TTRPGs into trouble (not to mention stories in general, MCU). Opponents need to be stronger, but the stakes should always feel personal. For example, a threat to a loved one or...

I think that there's an important distinction between creativity and innovation. Creativity often involves iterating on an idea, perhaps offering a new perspective, an expansion, an interesting synthesis, etc. Innovation is creative, for sure, but also suggests significant, even disruptive...

As far as "Rule 0" goes, it's never left D&D. The current DMG explicitly endorses house rules and interpretations. You're expected to do what works best for your group. So you can adapt circle magic to assuage any concerns. Personally, I think that if players can work out a way to launch a...

My issue with it has nothing to do with players trying to figure out how to use it combat. It's that it substantially changes wilderness adventuring to make it less...adventuring.

I agree - it's a feature, not a flaw! When a setting is too idiosyncratic, I don't want to run it - it feels like the property of the creator. I might think it is totally cool and admire the heck out of the creativity, but I want a campaign world where I can impose my own vision. Exandria gives...

It'll feel so good when you are done, though!

For the past few years, WotC's communications on the game's future have been strikingly anti-innovative. They don't exactly frame it that way, but that's what they are doing by declaring that 5e is the system going forward, except now it is just "D&D", and any changes will be small and...

Exandria is my favourite campaign setting, by far, and a worthy successor to Greyhawk, while also incorporating most of the classic tropes of other D&D settings, particularly the Forgotten Realms. It's essentially an 21st century version of the classic high fantasy setting. Much like Greyhawk...

I don't want D&D to wildly innovate. I think its inertia is a feature - there's a lot of value in having a common denominator for the hobby. It brings people in, and gives smaller, nimbler creators something to innovate from. One of my favourite aspects of 5e is that it felt familiar to someone...

Got around to the Elder Brain from a D&L stretch goals:

Well, maybe not Wizkids, but what about Enworld???? Can we expect the Big Book of Forum Posts, coming soon?

This is correct. Their unpainted miniatures used to be around half the price (or less) of the painted ones (example: I bought the current gargantuan WK Kraken, unpainted, for $29.99 CAD, maybe five years ago). Given the poor quality of the painting, I would still recommend unpainted, but in...

No. You just do not know the facts. I don’t think you understand what Medieval Romance is. A tale like Sir Gawain was completely understood to be fantastical and set in the legendary past by its contemporary audience. Gawain stories had been around for centuries. Nobody actually expected to meet...

WotC did swoop in and gobble up a big part of the VTT market. With Maps as a feature on DDB they likely have a much larger user base than all other VTTs combined. Why would they be interested in Roll20?

No, it's the progenitor for fantasy. You are just completely wrong. Not only did Tolkien not "despise medieval romance," he taught it and worked on it. I am looking at my copy of his esteemed translation of Sir Gawain, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo on my shelf right now. He was an acclaimed expert on...

WotC does partner with both of those VTTs!

I think people definitely want a VTT, because Maps has been a huge hit. They just don't want a VTT that they need a high end computer to run and that takes significant time and effort to learn and apply. I mean, a few do, and they're a niche that is well served by products like Foundry. But Maps...

House of the Dragon is scripted. Each episode is about an hour. Each season is, what, 8 episodes? Ten? In the entire amount of time that House of the Dragon spent on a full season, Campaign 4 got through little more than a funeral. Campaign 4 is already almost as long as all of HotD. If...