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D&D shorts at least is entertaining and his mechanical insight is quite good. I dont really watch roll for combat.

I bailed in 2010 after Tarmogoyf and Jace the Mindsculptor. Buying house also contributed.

Yeah it was when my fighter player pointed out he had all these new options. But he was crap comparatively vs his 2E one. With worse magic items. That was the one who soloed the marilth, lich, dragon in 2E. In 3 rounds.

Hey I was a 3E player and I wanted fixed saves in a fixed 3.5. Hell started houseruling it near the end.

I played 2E this year and yeah. Main thing I've been tweaking over the years is high saves and a simple MR system similar to 2E (specifically 3.5 minis game). Bring back 3 saves and add elements of 4E (eg ref saves are dex or int) off you go.

Fix was in 4E and pre 3E. Scaling defenses. How in the 9 hells of Baator did they miss that one? I generally like what Mike writes about but sheesh. Probably cant remove them because tradition but have saves scale faster than DCs. Make spellcasters debuff to land them or revert to...

No one's interested. My super Bhaal-Marilith lasted 4 or 5 rounds at level 12.

Saw something like that posted elsewhere. My books are on pre-order. Located in NZ will probably get them around 6E.

Im noticing thus effect. Downside as such the new tougher monsters aren't realky much better than 2024 counterpoint.

I'm not the data was incomplete. I wouldn't bother reading to much into it for another year or two.

I dont put to much thought into WotC statement along those lines. I expected it and don't think theyre out right lying.

Make your own decisions. WotC themselves said Covid was the peak iirc. They made a new version there's one big obvious reason to do that. Hell you were a big offender on the old Amazon threads which is even less relevant than Bookscan which at least have hard numbers.

Not really. I used dispel magic on it this year and dropped darkness on the PCs. Sharrans who could see in the dark. They stopped casting it in silly places after that.

I dint use it for concrete numbers of overall sales. More for trends and big selling items.

Bookscan included Amazon data at one point?

They were publishing AD&D and OD&D. Its about half what Paizo was doing 2012+.

And you cant prove that either. Carry on.

Thats in the new book?

This. Eventually people get sick of a game and drift off. No World of Warcraft 2. D&D requires more effort so I expect peopke/DMs to drift off faster.

They probably woukd have. 1E lasted 12 years, 2E 11. Basic 17 but with at least 3 revisions maybe 5 or 6. Bookscan indicated sales were down. Iirc WotC said something like Covid was peak sales.