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VTTs have existed for a good decade already, they're not going away anytime soon. Plus, given my last game was with people from other countries, playing in-person around a table ain't exactly feasible for everyone (unless you want to foot the living expenses and flight costs)

I'd honestly stick with the 5E paradigm. Not as confusing as THAC0's sheer presence, not as punishing for new players as 3E, not as requiring on other stuff as 4E, and 5E's solidly the "This is D&D" in pop culture. Plus, rather than doing the old 'PHB monster manual DM guide' you'd need to do...

The only game series I know that does the "One big franchise setter a year" is Pokemon, and they're stopping that due to the massive criticism on all of their recent games since the DS era. Seriously, when people are saying to ignore the recent games but go for the out of production one released...

The guy running the fighting tournament in Kartakass is Nym Pymplee, one of the fighters from the game

Also I just was reminded, there's a reference to Iron and Blood in VRGtR Y'know. Iron and Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft, the awful fighting game for the PS1? You don't include a reference that absolutely niche without caring a lot for something Hell, if anything you could easily argue simply...

People wanted Ravenloft back. Ravenloft, as previously presented, couldn't just be brought back due to multiple dated issues. Curse of Strahd alone got absolutely dragged over the Visanti thing. Its that simple. Either it gets changed, or it doesn't come back. Even Planescape was changed, its...

How did they butcher it? They reinvented it for a new audience that has different expectations of horror given its the 20s and not back in the 90s. That in of itself is enough reason to say why you're making radical changes, because times change. We've had 30 years of changes in the horror...

Based on the number of hard pulls they did and the fact Azalin's roaming around as a "Hey you can meet him" NPC while his realm cracks from whatever latest "Get the hell out of Ravenloft" plan he has cooked up, along with adding in a whole mini-domain for the "Cyre got sucked into Ravenloft"...

They really should just drag out the multiverse explanation because I also suspect most people just, don't care enough at this point. There's multiple Faeruns. Just go the Transformers/Marvel way on this and just say that. It'd solve the problem in one fell easy swoop and be any easy way to drag...

The problem is its one of those inheret problems of 3.5e, the fact you have to factor in that charop. It will always come up when you discuss 3E and 3.5E because its the system's lingering big problem. Same way you'd have to factor in "We need a grid" if you're playing 4E or all the various...

Core only 3.5E is asking for trouble though as that's three of the biggest problem classes in the whole game are just core. You want to start off banning Cleric, Druid and Wizard for anything remotely resembling balance in that game, after all I'd actually argue Warlocks are far more balanced...

I'd argue they weren't there. Streaming wasn't big, there were no big shows at the moment tapping into that particular right nostalgia boom to give it a big push, virtual tabletop technology was in its infancy and there wasn't a massive pandemic on the horizon to give a lot of people a lot of...

The runes were divine in origin in game lore, so it went into the Divine space Previous editions runes were more an arcane thing

Given that no other version of D&D has ever matched 5E's success, I don't thing this is much of a clarifier. AD&D didn't match the success of 5E, doesn't stop the OSR crowd. There's 4E clones and stuff like 13th Age that go off with some of its ideas on their own showing it does have that...

In 4E it functioned as a Divine Leader, so it fills a similar niche to cleric. Uses runes rather than worshipping the divine, the general idea being more of a 'seeking lost knowledge' type of caster so also fits the wizard-ish side of things. The runes in question were symbols left by the...

Yeah, while it may not be a 5E thing I'd absolutely say the wider pop culture image of trolls has them absolutely being able to be impossibly sneaky. They're the prototypical 'blends into nature so well it looks like its stones, or they turned into the stone' creature. Mind the pop culture...

Doesn't have a book version but MotB was considered the second well-written D&D video game, after Planescape Torment. And uh, let me tell you, most people who know Torment very much like the game being canon and not the novel version seriously the Planescape Torment novel ain't good. Like, just...

Kaelyn the dove, ex-Doomguide of Kelemvor, destroyed it along with the player character and a gaggle of other misc followers in MotB. There you go, not a retcon but "This was the original intent" that got cut in the game with so, so much cut content (seriously you do not know how much cut...

As an action figure fan, asking action figure fans won't get you useful information. The thing is the market that used to grab toys (IE: Kids) doesn't do toys as much any more, and there's a sliiight issue with "Main retailers just not buying the product in question and leaving it sitting in...

Y'know, I've got a random third party document (that I keep around in case anyone makes the mistake of asking the kaiju fan if there's kaiju stuff) that's got Circle of the Divine Moth. Y'know, Mothra. Not that it'd really help but the 'turn into a divine Thing' aspect could be interesting, if...