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I will never stop laughing at "I'm a monster! Grr!" for gnomes.

That is a change in 5.5E. For me, it makes basic magic weapons even less interesting.

I haven't heard anything. I expect Matt will be having the hype train up and running well before that happens. I still have a copy of the beta rules.

Oh, I know that won't happen. Just thought it was appropriate to say. I have no illusions that WotC will make a change, but there are new people working with the product, perhaps one of them might try and make the sale. I mean, the choice in my case is PDF sales or nothing, and I'm not the only one.

The core three books in PDF are things I'd like to legally purchase.

It depends on the system I'm running. I'm currently running a PF2 game and the assumption there is that you will be able to heal to full HP between each combat barring time crunches. I'm running Abomination Vaults, so there are some of those elements, but they are currently at a point where they...

So the implication is these adventures will be in several world settings and not one overarching campaign. Is that correct?

I'll be honest, I initially thought this was going to be about WotC doing an update and not telling anyone about it. Not actual updates to the stealth mechanics.

I think this is very well said, and very important to the hobby. I grew up in the 70s and 80s playing, and there were a lot of social outcasts and odd people who were welcomed into the game. Nowadays, I realize that they were neurodivergent, but we didn't know it back then. Other social circles...

To me, this is the best example of rules that my group and I just work around. I think it's the equivalent of the "attack versus attack action" from 5.0. Exactly how hiding and attacking works is something we've had to work out via compromise so that it works at our table.

To me, this is the only way to be successful as a GM. I'm going on a trip and going to play some OSR D&D on it. That is ... not my favorite flavor of RPG at all. And yet, my friend who runs the game could run any game system and it would be fun. With my friends when I run a game, I have...

Indeed. They definitely listed the PHB as the fastest-selling product ever, and called the PHB the fastest-selling book in a call to investors. But that was last quarter. Nothing was mentioned at all in the latest report, which tells me things must have slowed. Having been involved with many of...

I'd strongly agree with this. I was thinking about 2024 in terms of innovations, and I see it as much more a cleaning up/errata edition. That's why I call it 5.5. In thinking about what 5.5E did innovate, I think there was options in the play test but they didn't see the light of day. I see the...

It's been my experience that products that are a labor of love are just better than those that are by rote. That doesn't mean that they will necessarily be good, mind you, but something that's made by love tends to read better than something that's not. I am one of the mods for a game design...

I find that interesting. I’m wondering what you are thinking of in particular. I’m not a fan of OSR (I was playing when a lot of those traditions were much more default play) and I think of Dungeon World as, well, very PbTA but with some rules nods to D&D to make the game familiar to those...

It's kind of funny that you mention this because I was just going to fire it up and start over with a new build. Outside of that text, there's nothing that says Dungeons and Dragons when you launch the game and start a new game. It does list Wizards of the Coast as copyright holder, but you...

Using the same Ability Scores and keeping hit points (although on a much compressed scale) was what made the game for me. There are a bunch of other fantasy PbtA games (and I own Chasing Adventure, so that's an example). This change takes Dungeon World from a game you can show to D&D players and...

I pretty much agree Daggerheart is really not a D&D adjacent game. It is very different. I think people who just want a "D&D done right" game won't be happy with it. And I don't know anything much about DC20 but have some friends who've met the author and described him as a super nice and...

I can definitely see where you're coming from, but I don't know if you can make that broad of a statement. I still play with some young players (sons and daughters of my friends and their friends) and greedy play is very much on the table for them. Getting all the stuff is very exciting. And...

I just looked and the PDF release is scheduled for May 20th. So that's when I'll be looking at it, outside of previews and unboxings. I don't know that there's anything that could "spoil" it for me, but then I am not trying to plan a release for a huge product line, so what do I know?