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I have mixed feelings on MotRD. I love it in concept, but it really needs its own version of D&D with appropriate classes and gear and such. I've seen several attempts to make it work and none have ever scratches my itch right. I'm more tempted to do with something like Stokerverse than try to...

Not sure if they need two books, but a companion piece to Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft would be appreciated. We already have horror subclasses, and the Ravenloft lineages to reprint. Add some feats and backgrounds and the PC side is done. Then they can either expand a few domains (Lamordia...

The other thing is that they may already have a second project in the works and despite the issues with FotA, they may have to follow through with it. It's not like they can magically create an additional 190 pages of material and art with the snap of their fingers. The other alternative is to...

It reminds me of Pathfinder and how conditions can have X severity, where X is the penalty for the condition (like skip x actions or -X to saves). In theory, you could have boss monsters reduce the penalty severity (bosses only take half or quarter of X) but it is still going to be the kind of...

It will depend on sales figures for a book that isn't for sale yet. Unless you got those in your crystal ball Nostradamus, let's see how well this plays out.

Granted, but in practicality I know Eberron is WotC's, not Keith's to do with.

Because the first time something doesn't go right, you abandon the concept entirely. We don't know why the Eberron book's cover bent. Bad materials, incorrect binding, misadjusted machinery, etc. They apparently have figured out how to FIX the issue as the new printing should be out in...

Eberron might be Keith's baby, but a.) He doesn't have control over it and b.) its actually a mixture of a lot of things that weren't Keith's, so this is a chance for him to make something he has a LOT more direct control over without as much interference. I don't think it will be Eberron-ish...

Keith's already making a new setting for Daggerheart. Eberron would be superfluous.

For what it's worth, the group only had one Monster Manual with us that day (and it wasn't common to have devices to use your SRD on at table) so when the first wizard summoned celestial elephants, he pretty much hogged the only MM. He was pretty much out of useful spells (remember, every buff...

I've heard it's legit from Spielberg in various interviews, but even in the pacing of the movie it worked because it comes so late into the film you can sense Indy going "I'm too tired for this". But if Indy did that every fight, the movie would have been boring.

Yes. D&D is about survival, not entertainment. What?? There's a joke to be made about love making here, but I'm pretty sure it's against ToS.

I'm reminded of the classic Indiana Jones saber fight where the sword duel was ended with a gunshot. It's a funny moment for the exact reason it's unexpected; Indy doesn't normally just shoot every bad guy and if he did, it would be a boring ass movie. Now imagine if Indy just walked in and...

Isn't that basically what 5e did? Xanathar introduced updated encounter, treasure, and downtime rules. Tasha's gave patches to the base classes and new species rules. Monsters of the Multiverse revised every species except a handful and redid two books worth of monsters. Every background since...

Case. In. Point.

The problem now is D&D players have become impatient. The 5e Kernel is over a decade and a half old if you go though the Next play test, 10 years of 5e, and the One D&D play test, it's one of the most playtested versions of D&D ever. And people are now looking for the All New, All Different D&D...

That's the balancing act. We want characters to get cool toys so we don't end up with 20 levels of "I attack" as your only meaningful option, but the more we feed the game limited resources, tactical abilities, weapon properties, bonus actions, reactions, and dozens of spell choices available...

The problem i see is that barring organized play, their is no enforcement mechanism for balance patches. If you introduce Wish the PHB and it's broken, there is no way to replace Wish with Fixed Wish except by DMs to be aware Fixed Wish exists and manually enforce it at their table. The "making...

I keep saying that you can only speed up combat by severe restrictions on available actions. You would have to cut bonus actions, reactions, pets and summons, and a large chunk of class features to make combat fast enough to finish a character turn quick. Unfortunately, that would also mean...

It exposed to me a whole bunch of issues I was only vaguely aware of. The disparity between good and bad save tracks. Disjunction as a bad spell, especially with 3.5 using magical items to prop up the math. The ability of control magic being able to take players out of whole sessions. The length...