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The OGL is huge here, in my opinion, (not that I always held it) but it created an ecosystem where semi pro designers get to gain a foothold and identify and serve niches that are not being served by the main producer and this made the D&D ecosystem more diverse and attractive to more and more...

Totally agree with you, it could have been something else. Being a first mover is part of what got D&D to this point. But if it never changed or adapted something else would have replaced it now.

I am not convinced of that, I think it has close to the right amount of complexity, it gives the more mechanically minded players enough levers without getting too much in the way of the players that want to work out of the box. It will be very interesting to watch the future trajectory of...

Out of curiosity what was the party size? I am not going to deny your experience and the only TPKs I have had was with low level parties right at the beginning of my experience of 5e but I think you have been very unfortunate. Particularly with TPK's at fifth level. At that level 5e parties are...

This may be true, but I think that mechanically it is in the sweet spot for a lot of players and GMs

On the animated shows side, being actors and where they are the have more insider knowledge and contacts than Hasbro or Wizards, which I reckon helps.

They almost certainly printed too few books

I there is a way to track it, I could see a huge surge in VPN usage in the US.

We don't really know, at least I have not seen anything like real hard data on the matter. What I have seen is Google trends showing increased search activity relating to D&D coinciding with Stranger Things and CR. It is a plausible theory but no proven. I am sure Wizards has the sales data that...

I never said anything about suddenly. In fact, I would expect the player base to experience a contraction as Wizard was no longer putting out material. But the committed hard core would settle on a clone, it might be ToV or one that Jermery Crawford and Chris Perkins or Mike Mearls knocks out...

I am inclined to agree, which is why, if WoTC D&D was to cease, it would be replaced by the closest clone game.

If WoTC D&D vanished in the morning, I think new player acquisition would slow, but I could see one of the near clones (Tales of the Valiant, or Level UP) would probably see an increase in sales. It would take some time though for one of them to ramp up to WoTC's level.

I enjoyed it, the early seasons are a bit mixed, season 2 was poor but I thought the show got better, I enjoyed it and Atlantis but did not watch the end for real life reasons at the time.

Yup ;)

That inspires the thought of reskinning the Illithid as the Gou'ald from Stargate.

I think he envisions more a gray goo scenario but we are screwed either way. And I do not think a world government will help if he is right since I do not believe that assembling massive amounts of compute and training data is the only path to AI. I suspect that there are other ways that we have...

If this guy is correct we really are doomed and there is nothing that can be done. There is no way, that what he wants will be agreed to, or if agreed to, be made stick. Aside form the people with a religious belief that they have a duty to incarnate "Rocco's Basilisk" and the like. AI is the...

Nothing immediately, if they were TPK'ed probably what @Mort already wrote. It was my first ever (despite years of DMing ) having a campaign hold together to get into high levels as a DM or player and I will admit I made mistakes as to running it. I really found it difficult to make encounters...

Humans will be on the battle field as long as humans are fighting and directing the war. Armies are made of people and material. Losses in material almost never decide the outcome of a war. It is losses in people, unit cohesion and position that usually determines the outcome. A battle with no...

I think that this only happens when the DM is too bound by the text and does not tune the encounters or makes logical npc responses to pc actions. For example, when I ran Princes of the Apocalypse if a cult faction leader was killed, I had the faction collapse and flee the area.