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My first D&D experience was with a some friends in high school, run by a guy one grade ahead who'd been running games for a long time. My first TTRPG experience, though, was about a year earlier playing Earthdawn. A friend who'd never played or run anything similar bought the rulebook and we...

My thought exactly. The other two seem to be nobodies, though, and possibly to point out that the setting takes all comers now, so it's possible all three are new.

No Knight in any of the core novels ever cast a spell, and there is no reference anywhere to their ability to do so.

As I recall (from one of the books across several interpretations), there weren't druids technically, but priests of Chislev came very close. Similarly no paladins, though some Knights of Solamnia came very close. It always annoyed me, though, that the game mechanics differed so greatly from...

Once upon a time, there were explicitly no bards, druids, or paladins in Krynn. Sorcerers were introduced to Dragonlance after the Chaos War/Second Cataclysm/3rd Edition. Warlocks are such a great concept for a character that they can work around in most any situation.

Well, I asked what folks liked about them, and y'all delivered. They're still not for me, but needless to say my needs and preferences are not those of everyone. It's still a bummer when product that otherwise looks really good turns out to be a mini book, but as the French say, c'est la vie...

It might SEEM like a good marketing move, but for my part it simply means I won't buy any of them. Which is a bit of a shame, in a way, but I seriously do not understand the appeal of a product that takes up essentially the same horizontal space on a shelf but contains half the content of...

But then they're all out of order! I think the simpler solution is to simply not buy stuff that will cause such issues.

I guess I can see that on some level. Though for my part the one digest sized book I have (which I didn't realize was going to be tiny before I ordered it, especially since the previous book by the same author/publisher was full size) tends to just make any stack of books tip over if it isn't...

Seriously. I just backed a Kickstarter for an adventure module that I thought looked great. It has an interesting plot, great artwork, and promised to be a bucket of fun. But then I noticed that the book was digest-sized, or at least not full-size, and I pulled out. I just don't understand...

I've backed 73 Kickstarter campaigns since 2013 (including the 5e Primeval Thule book from Sasquatch). Of the projects I've backed, a few are delayed - some by over a year. Welcome to Tikor is WAY overdue as others have mentioned, but aside from that one all the other outstanding projects look...

My favorite zero prep game at the moment is Dungeon Crawl Classics. While not every part of every module can be run smoothly without reading it first, they're all close enough that I can coast by when I need to. I've been running a regular campaign consistently meeting every Sunday since June...

I think the fact that there are groups still playing 1st Edition AD&D and other older editions answers this question better than any speculation possibly could.

City's cats joined the quest.

That may be true. I'm still not really happy that I had to be the one to cover it. But please don't misunderstand me - the map was worth the price. I couldn't have made the product I made without it, and even now, years later and with much more mapmaking experience, there's no way I could do as...

Again, I understood the terms when I commissioned the map. $200 if the cartographer could sell it themselves (non-exclusive), and much more - I can't remember exactly but I think it was over $500 - for an exclusive version. I didn't have $500 or whatever, so I took the less expensive option - I...

No. I couldn't afford it as an exclusive, and it wasn't a surprise. I knew the terms when I commissioned the map. But the fact that it wasn't a surprise made me no happier that I paid $200 for a map that would cost you $5 if you bought it.

After paying $200 to commission a map, which the cartographer then turned around and sold commercially as a $5 download, I decided to buy some mapmaking software and learn to use it myself. Are my maps as good as those made by Dyson Logos or any of the fulltime professional cartographers? Not...

This bit is pretty much what I came here to say, and it's put better than I could have. Sure, you can just start at 3rd level (or whatever), but that approach seems to only confirm the idea that you should get the subclass you want from the start. So why not have it at 1st? Folks bring up...