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Heroic Fantasy vs Epic Fantasy vs Mythic Fantasy vs Bright Fantasy - ok someone help me out with some definitions here

The first bullet is a very subjective question, it depends heavily on what you think the Artificer "class fantasy" is. If your definition of the Artificer class fantasy is that they are the party's primary crafter, buffing the entire party via downtime crafting of magic items, then yeah this...

I've never done that before, or even heard of anyone attempting it, but it does seems like this could work REALLY well if everyone was on board with the concept that the entire first session (or maybe more!) is dedicated to taking however much time is required to create characters and party...

There are so many DMs in my area looking for players but unable to find any stable groups of people who want to play. I just want players to show up over half the time, give a warning ahead of time when they'll miss a session, and have fun when they do show up. Almost everyone I ever meet who...

Seems like that would make sense to for the War Bond weapon(s) be usable as an Arcane Focus, but Arcane Tricksters also have no method to use a weapon as a focus so I guess the logic is Primary Casters = Yes; Tertiary Casters = No. Does anyone actually keep track of Spellcasting Focuses? I'd...

This is definitely true online but in my experience the exact opposite is true for in-person groups. There is a huuuuuuge number of people who have never played DnD before and say they want to try it (but don't remotely understand the time commitment required for a successful group), and then...

You're misinterpreting the claim here. No geneticist would ever assert that offspring are born with ONLY the traits of one parent with zero genetic influence from the other parent, which is how the DnD playtest mechanics worked. I still think the playtest mechanics were a great compromise...

Ok yeah then that doesn't sound much different than what I'm used to seeing. Gold just doesn't really matter anymore, for all the reasons you described above. In my experience, DMs still hand out gold occasionally but it's pretty rare. Treasure awards are almost entirely magic items and...

What does "off the treasure treadmill" mean? I'm envisioning you mean there is no money, no purchases, no magic items - just focus on adventuring for the sake of the story with base equipment? I'm sure that would still work pretty well but I'd definitely miss having magic items.

It absolutely is. But this piggy looks better with lipstick than without!

"Rejected" as in players rated it poorly or as in WotC decided it was easier to just avoid taking any stance on the matter and let DMs figure it out on their own? I've always figured it was the latter but I have no evidence on that obviously I use the playtest half-species mechanics and so far...

Milestones are generally always unknown to the players (I suppose some DMs may outright tell the players but I've never heard of anyone doing this). Personally I wouldn't call the milestones DM fiat since they're known ahead of time by the DM but just aren't known by the players. At some...

As a couple examples from Sly Flourish's webpage: 2018 poll of 2444 respondents found 56% use Milestone vs 26% use XP (and 18% other) 2020 poll of 6009 respondents found 66% prefer Milestone vs 21% prefer XP (and 13% other) 2022 poll of 6008 respondents found 83% use Milestones defined by the...

I'd assume they mean that most people don't use XP anymore, as indicated by the aggregate opinions across DnD forum threads and Youtube videos on the internet, not necessarily that it was proven by this particular poll. Milestone leveling is definitely much more common than XP leveling...

In my experience it's ~4-6 sessions per level, with Level 1 always skipped or maybe played as a tutorial during Session Zero. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower though, depends when the players hit the story milestones

I wouldn't want to commit to a full-length campaign that is highly restrictive on what character concepts are allowed, but for a one shot or short campaign, yeah that sounds super fun

So, what was the explanation for why Elon Musk "needs DnD to be racist"? Those excerpts don't seem to have anything to do with the premise I highly doubt that Elon Musk needs DnD to be anything whatsoever, I'm pretty sure he's doing just fine no matter what DnD does

Not "things" plural, just Elven Accuracy. That is the single most overpowered Feat in the game while the rest of the Racial Feats are all completely useless

All of that was totally fine, and I think the correct move. Where they flubbed was not playtesting the tweaks and getting feedback that this version of Banneret has a great theme going but is just way too weak to ever be useful. Taking what already existed and tweaking a few things was the...

Eyeballing the data it seems like for recent releases (so 5.5e and tail end of 5e) you tend to sell way more of the Exclusive / Alternate covers, while for the earlier 5e releases it doesn't seem to follow this trend as much I'm wondering if that indicates DnD Beyond direct orders starting to...