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one page each should be enough for most of them, incidentally gets you to around 45 pages too ;)

that is just magical without using that word for it. I don’t see why in DS! you cannot say that is what your Fury character does instead of pretending that it is ‘classic magic’

unified subclass progression across classes, half-caster warlock, druid wild shape templates When all the good ideas were scrapped and only the nitpicky minor stuff was still in the running, I lost all interest in the UA, and I am not impressed with the end result either

a better clue than us, sure, certainty, no

no, you did not, but it sure sounds like they interpreted it correctly… oh, I agree, there should have been an upgrade, my problem is that I do not see 2024 as much of an upgrade and worse in some parts The big upgrades were all thrown away halfway through the playtest

it certainly is a small fraction of all players, but I doubt that the general adoption rate is that far away from the 50% mark. Not everyone that will switch has already switched and not everyone playing 2014 will switch to 2024 either

good luck with that, not sure how you think you can pressure them…

D&D, not Hasbro, and I feel they have exceeded that for most of the past 10 years, so maybe not that impressive after all. Certainly not out of reach for one new book no, but then D&D’s revenue is not 1 Billion, so I have no idea how you arrived there

ok, I agree that that one is hard to reach, but you wrote that ‘2.5-5% increase would be considered a phenomenal success’ and I very much doubt that one Heck, that low a bar is something the FR DLCs could accomplish, and they fill half a book

huh, you wrote 2.5 to 5%, not 50

what do you base that on? Having one extra book should pretty easily accomplish that Also, it is below their growth rate the last 10 years even without extra books

finally, we have identified what makes something a JRPG ;)

that are the IFs, agreed, they did not manage that with me. Pretty sure if they had released a somewhat different version it would not have had much impact on either of your criteria, for that they have to really screw up - and as bad as the playtest is, it lets them identify those cases at...

eh, didn’t work for me, I do not like 2024, I prefer 2014. Maybe that is the consequence of an evergreen strategy, I certainly wanted more change, but it is not evergreen if people do not stick with it as a consequence of stagnation My point was more that how they collect feedback and how they...

can it be both, sure. Do I think their approach is awful at getting meaningful results, absolutely. I said a few times that their testing is only decent at identifying the real misfires, not at identifying improvements over the current version. It helps them to not create a new 4e, but it does...

the way WotC does it yes, it’s at least as much marketing as it is playtesting

Modern to me is more focused on narrativist and/or gamist elements while ‘old’ is more simulationist. fail forward, multiple levels of success, clocks, playbooks, metacurrencies there are both old and modern games released today, so no clear line in time at least Not sure if I would say PbtA...

Flashbacks to TSR buying a needlework company... As a licensed product fine, why not, apparently anything goes anyway (it's certainly no worse than beer or gambling, ...). As an actual WotC product it would show a distinct lack of ideas to add to whatever their release schedule is

If this is a real release for 2026, then maybe they really shouldn't make more ;)