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I know, but if you read the rest of the text, you should notice that it is only minimally streamlined rather than talking about 'how much they've simplified the system' as you put it

anything else would have been a surprise, given the growth 5e experienced over the 10 years

they are not talking about that... "We've been working on it for the last few years, just trying to find where are those bits where we can make it a little bit simpler without losing anything. Where the additional complexity doesn't really give the returns in terms of satisfaction of the...

I certainly hope for this as a tie-in to the show. Heck, I take it without a show too :D

yeah, they certainly are willing to spend on it, $250M for the license is not cheap, and apparently there are penalties if they make fewer seasons too...

no, 3e sold around 500k PHBs, the 1M is 3e and 3.5 combined, according to Ben Riggs’ numbers

that $400M is pretty suspect, I would not put much faith in it. Also, that is still below production cost apparently, of the first season only…

those are ProfDM numbers, aren’t they? He is off quite a bit for at least 5e, 1e, 2e and 3e we have a pretty good idea (and he lumped 3e and 3.5 together there…) because we have the actual TSR numbers and pretty good WotC number. The 5e number is Bookscan though and way too low, the actual...

Didn’t they reduce it from 30+ to 3 developers months ago? Development effectively ended then (yeah, they released a few minis and maybe fixed some issues in the meantime, but for all intents and purposes it was dead then), this just makes it official

take a look, it’s only 2 pages anyway… I see nothing innovative here, a mine map with two encounters and little else. Nothing clever, nothing unexpected, nothing interesting. Confirms everything I already didn’t like about the adventure stubs in the DMG. Was not interested in those, certainly...

yeah, you do not spend $250M on a license and $465M on the first season and then expect a show that is an ‘also ran’ that looses 60% of its viewers during season one (that is one metric Amazon cannot be happy with, whether they admit it or not). You could accomplish that for a lot less money…...

I am not calling them dishonest, I say they have their reasons for not telling everyone what their metrics are and whether they were met, and some of those reasons are about saving face Not telling me something does not make you dishonest, telling me something that you know isn’t true does

I disagree, and by that logic we would never know that anything failed or succeeded. There are metrics to go by, we do not need to speculate about what someone in charge may or may not consider acceptable. If you spend 3 times as much as a comparable show that gets 50% more audience (numbers...

sure it failed, bad reviews, drastically reduced viewer numbers. It hasn’t been cancelled but that is not the same as not failing

to me it wasn’t so much that they ended up where they did, as you wrote it has been foreshadowed for a while, but how abrupt it was. If they had given it two seasons rather than one rushed half-season things might have been different. It also didn’t help that in the last two seasons the...

maybe in the first month of release, in total sales it pretty much was the opposite until 5e came along

that was the gods saving the true believers from the by then unavoidable Cataclysm due to all the other people having abandoned the gods. I agree they are all jerks, lines up pretty well with stories about gods in plenty of (formerly) existing faiths though

it jumps your probability to succeed / fail dramatically, not the rolled result, as that is still bounded by 1-20. Looking at the crit chance is misleading, look at your probability of success

it is almost the entire growth of Hasbro Gaming... MtG grew by 347, Gaming without it grew by 24...

GoT did that with 5 books though, so a lot more per book, which probably translates into more readers as well