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Literally, at no point, did I assert or even imply that. It seems you may have conflated what I said with regards to "selling out arenas" (as in filling to capacity) with "selling out" (compromising authenticity for personal gain).

C2 saw a significant increase in viewers due to Covid lockdowns, so when those were lifted, they naturally dropped as people no longer had the free time to dedicate. C3 saw viewership continuously fall off due a variety of stated reasons: players meandering and being non-committal to any action...

There are certainly people like that, but there is also a substantially different vibe between sitting in the nosebleed seats of a sold out 100k capacity stadium compared to being stood in front of the stage at your local basement club, and it's perfectly valid for a person to prefer one feeling...

Indeed. BLeeM mentioned that Perkins and Crawford would be working on Aramán (the new world), and noted particularly about running homebrew mechanics by Crawford. Presumably both, but especially Perkins, would be helping with worldbuilding.

I'm sure there will be a moment of adjustment, but I don't think this should be much of a concern. Luis Carazo: We've seen how he interacts with most of the original group in ExU: Calamity, and in the fireside chat, Matt mentioned that Luis was a player in the home game he ran before the one...

Since the system has been confirmed, the D&D vs Daggerheart debate is redundant (and it was already worn out) so, in a bid to move beyond it, I thought I'd engage in a different form speculation on campaign 4, based on the information revealed in the announcement. The cast has been expanded...

For those interested and haven't watched the fireside chat, one of the questions asked was why D&D2024? Brennan's answer was essentially that it was about player comfort - there was a long conversion in which Crawford & Perkins (accurately in Brennan's view) made the case that it's the...

I've actually made the comparison with friends that what's happened with CR does feel a lot like what happens with some bands, where they start out small and unknown and gigs feel intimate, before eventually making it big and selling out arenas. More like My Chemical Romance than Metallica, though.

Well, CR are now a multimillion dollar multimedia empire. Not exactly the plucky little stream that relied on viewers donating pizza anymore.

This isn't all that silly given during C2 and C3, Matt would use things that seemed to correlate to things that would later appear in published books, rather like he was playtesting them.

I'd rather they stay separate, myself. Eberron is becoming increasingly less distinct as WotC continue to port elements that originated there into core D&D.

I jumped down to the description previously and totally missed those icons listing the options.

Presumably, Gith would be one species, so maybe: Astral elf Autognome Giff Gith Hadozee Plasmoid Thri-kreen

Almost everything added to D&D gets ported into FR, and that was before WotC went all in on their multiverse nonsense (Eberron is remaining its own cosmology in my games, thank you very much). I have clearly missed where there was another 7 species confirmed. I double-checked and don't see it...

Neverwinter Nights was technically the first cRPG I ever played, so I have major nostalgia for it. I know people tend to consider it inferior to Baldur's Gate, but teenage me loved it while BG failed to capture my interest.

Both Astarion's Book of Hungers and Fall of Netheril are clearly tangentially related to things that were touched on in BG3, and WotC seem keen to milk the game's popularity for all it's worth, so with that in mind, a few possibilities: Gale's Guide to Working the Weave: New spells, and...

Ah, yes, Minthara's Manual of Menzoberranzan - 5e's answer to the Book of Erotic Fantasy.

If the other "Champions of" books are anything to go by, there will certainly be more archetypes than what's depicted on the cover. Given they added draconith in Era of the Beast, I would hope they'd add sphiranx. If they don't...well, blood for the blood god!

Two creatures spring to mind. First, the Qilin: a benevolent creature which was sometimes depicted as walking on clouds to avoid harming even a single blade of grass, and said to appear at the birth or death of a wise and benevolent individual (as was alleged with Confucius). Second, the Xiezhi...

I think the "edgy evil is dramatic, good is boring" tone, as you put, is fine - appropriate even - for the Baldur's Gate series. I've always had the impression of the city being rather noir-esque in it's level of corruption and inability to improve. Contrast to Neverwinter where I generally get...