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You're conveniently forgetting the adventures that are very setting specific. And whether or not you count the FR iconic character titled books...

What I'm saying is that WotC did something new, and imho it wasn't the runaway success everyone expected. Two editions later it's just a core book and a future class expansion book. Compare to all the FR books that have been released, the old rehashed stuff that's most certainly not new. And D&D...

How well was Ebberon received? Sure it got a book in 5e, but so did certain podcasts... The next Ebberon book was pushed back to be released sometime after the new FR books... I own most if not all 3e/4e Ebberon RPG books, and I was never really inspired to run anything in there. The idea is...

During the AD&D2e age we didn't do very high levels, don't know exactly, but I doubt we went beyond level 12 before starting a new party. During the 3(.5e) age we did get to very high levels, 18th level if I remember correctly. But besides having a huge challenge with creating encounters, it...

While I still prefer the 2e/3e Forgotten Realms over what 5e brings, WotC was able to succinctly explain each region beyond the Swordcoast of Faerun. This makes it easier for new players and DMs to grasp the different regions of the Realms and how to play in each one. I think that's a huge...

Asmodee bought/merged with FFG on November 17th 2014. The RPG forums were still up and being posted to in 2020. Or do you mean FFG stopping with RPGs and Asmodee moving the RPGs over to Edge Studios? That's 2020, at least 5 years after the merger with Asmodee. And about two years after FFG...

Nice illustrations!

From Asia we have things like Romance of the Three Kingdoms (written somewhere between 1300-1400), but that also has written predecessors. I also wonder if something similar to inns and taverns shows up in other old Asian tales. Someone mentioned the Bible, but what about other old religious...

I'm a tablet fanboy! Before that it was PDAs and those where not good with PDFs. But one of the folks in my group just prefers physical books, so they buy them themselves. I just buy the Foundry VTT (digital) version that we all can use (we currently mostly play online as one is on the other...

It's theme: one is based on magic, the other on science. That's why we call one fantasy and the other science fiction.

I wouldn't call Spelljammer or pocket realms with mechanical societies sci-fi, I call that space fantasy and steampunk... Something like Dragonstar or Starfinder have sci-fi elements with tons of space fantasy. Especially Spelljammer is the more fantastical version of nautical adventures.

While I find $40 for a dice set also quite steep, these are resin liquid core dice and these types of dice are expensive. I'm seeing that they normally start at $30 for a set of 7, add in a $10 dice tray and I can see that price being 'reasonable' for what you're getting. Especially because it's...

Honestly, I'm hesitant to advise to buy a 5th edition, I would say wait for it at least (unless you want to play a game now or soon), and wait for the reviews to come out. And if you play in FVTT to see how the VTT version is implemented. And then decide if you want to go WFRP4e or WFRP5e. I've...

The Dragon can do the same Circle Casting with a bunch of Kobold Scale Sorcerers... People need to realize that this requires spellcasting, be that in a class, a subclass or in a monster/NPC statblock... So what the PCs can do, the monsters/NPCs can do as well... The question becomes, is...

'Dungeons' are often in our games, be it a cultist hideout in an abandoned tomb, an actively occupied tomb, a cavern, a wizards hideout or something huge like our current track through Undermountain. I suspect that it's somewhere in every adventure, whether it's labeled as a dungeon or not...

With core books I mean PHB/DMG/MM, and as far as I remember there were no Psionics in any edition in those core books. They were always optional books that were often related to a specific setting like Dark Sun...

Because anything else has no place in the core D&D books. Something like that should be in an optional book like Unearthed Arcana, like it was in 3e but WotC dialed back book production so much that there just isn't any room in the schedule for such a book. It's just not worth the effort as the...

While it's named aptly, it has no panache! But it allows options like: Warrior of the Schroom... 🍄

Do you have links to the math for that? Not that I'm doubting you, but I really want to use that to 'upgrade' some 2014 monsters and NPCs to 2024.

Mearls is talking about the 2014 D&D 5e, because he can't be talking about the 2024 version, as he was laid off before that and was working on MtG for years at that point. And while Mearls might be dismissive of the 'Holy Cows' in D&D and having to resort to 'hacks' to make them work, someone...