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ok, guess there is an exception to every rule;) On the other hand those PHB1/DMG1/MM1 books were missing stuff from previous core books, eg for the PHB some core races (gnome, goliath, half-orc) and classes (barbarian, bard, druid, sorcerer) which came in PHB2. So it still ended up being kinda...

they did what? Revised Player's Handbook: Released on September 17, 2024. Revised Dungeon Master's Guide: Released on November 12, 2024. Revised Monster Manual: Released on February 18, 2025. that is 5 months until the MM, and nothing is 6 weeks apart, although the DMG is not that much later...

the staggered release was true for all editions of D&D. I do not think that all books were done by the time the first one went to print, that makes no sense when you know the print will take several printers and several months to complete. What do you have your team do in the meantime? Might as...

they just changed their summon spells to not have a pack of wolves or whatever, and they had a good reason for that. Seems they forgot that lesson already

then you should agree, because that is what gives you that, not 6 subclasses in a FR book, and ‘of Everything’ books that spend at least half their pages on other stuff

yes, WotC said as much

if the WotC and Joe’s print job are the same number of books, sure. If WotC’s is a factor of 500 or so more, that becomes difficult… there is a reason they staggered the release of the core books and had multiple printers for them in parallel

eh, those are 2014 books, maybe they do not port some stuff over to 2024, but that stuff then gets left behind

I was thinking of ones that 'cast spells' or otherwise trigger spell-like efects some way, like the Staff of The Python example, not things like +1 sword. Examples: Staff of Fire "Spells. The staff has 10 charges. While holding the staff, you can cast one of the spells..." Staff of Flowers...

4e sold a lot worse than 5e did, that this is true for the main supplements as well is not really a surprise. I assume most of the difference is due to that. As to confusion, Paizo and the Kobolds both have a Players Guide 2, no idea if that affects sales or causes confusion for them

do the items that require / mention the Magic action easily outnumber the ones that cast a spell? I doubt that, in which case ‘usually’ would be an odd choice of words for this unless it also covered the ones casting spells

it delays your actual action, the one it tells you to choose to actually perform. As I said, you could place its description in the other actions and things would be exactly the same, all that changed is that there is no stand-alone Ready paragraph. The only way in which it is like an action is...

It is listed under actions, I do not argue that it is not mentioned there. I am saying it is so different from the others that I cannot see it as one of them, but only as a summary for how to delay any of the other actions and not as an action in itself. Call it a should if you want to, I...

I have a different answer to your second question... to me it is sufficiently different to be its own thing, and just placed near the 'other' actions for convenience

on its own, probably not, but when you add the Hiding / Invisible rules... ;)

Each action but Ready does one thing instantly, Ready does 'all the actions' but at a later time. It has a lot less in common with the other actions than those have with each other. That they all do different things does not change that and is expected (why have two actions that do the same...

The adventure book is the same book for 5e and ToV, the world book with subclasses, monsters, etc. will be different for the two. That is why there are two bundles and the world book is available separately, in case you want both world books. there is a bundle, outside of that, no. That is the...

nailed it...

alright, not contradicted by the text then. I would have preferred them to say 'use the Magic action' rather than 'cast as normal', makes the whole thing clear and the issue go away..

yeah, small oversight that leads to all of this. At other places it does tell you that you cast spells with the duration of an action via the Magic action