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It's not that the idea came from nowhere. I fully believe that WOTC had no plans for Dark Sun when that interview was given. But now that the people who expressed the resistance to Dark Sun are no longer working on D&D and the recent UAs strongly suggest it's in the pipeline. There's good...

1. Core classes: Artificer, Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Monk, Paladin, Psion, Ranger, Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Warlord 2. Core species: Aasimar, Beastfolk, Bugbear, Dragonborn, Goblin, Gnome, Hobgoblin, Kobold, Tiefling, Reborn Lore: The traditional four classes and the Tolkien races were all but...

Also "they've made it easier to optimize your character" isn't a bad thing. Optimization being hard is why there can be such disparity between good and bad builds in some systems and why the difficulty curve of 3.X-based video games looks like it was plotted by the Tazmanian devil.

I think I'd be torn between "Time to take a photo of this statistical unlikely outcome for 4d6k3." and "Oh crap, this bodes poorly."

Good job passing the "tell me you haven't read the thread without telling me you haven't read the thread" challenge.

Am I the only one who prefers late tier 2/early tier 3? Some of the coolest encounters I've run were levels 9 to 12.

True, but we're talking about a CR 4 NPC whose stats resemble those of a level 10 PC martial (having 10 hit dice, two attacks, and 18 STR). Obviously, NPC and PC stats don't translate 1 to 1 but unless a creature has spell slots (which isn't really a thing in 5E since MPMM) then hit dice are...

It looks like the Guard Captain is a 10th level character judging by its hit dice. It's perfectly reasonable for a 10th level of any class to have an 18 in their primary attack stat.

The guard captain has STR 18, not 21.also it's CR4 not 10.

Yeah, I was gonna bring up 69ing with Minthara as the most explicit but even that requires an evil playthrough IIRC so it's very avoidable.

I say knee-jerk because they specifically described their reaction to reading the 2024 PHB rather than actual play with the 2024 rules as a whole. A lot of people thought the PCs were overtuned when the PHB came out, but the new monster guidelines, in my (admittedly limited) experience seems to...

Honestly I kind of expected a more.... thoughtful take from a storied blog like this rather than knee jerk gloom and doom about how PCs are invincible and the game is all about superheroes now. It just feels like such an edition change cliche at this point.

I'm... so confused as to what you're trying to say. The sexual encounters in BG3 aren't 5 to 10 minutes long. Few movies have explicit scenes that long, aside from actual porn. I recall the french film Blue is the Warmest Color has one 7-minute long sexual scene and that was considered extreme...

I mean I don't think customers were ever the issue with Dark Sun. It was always internal resistance to the setting as expressed by Kyle Brink or whoever he was speaking on behalf of. Which, to be fair to him... the setting has thoughtlessly presented some very thorny topics in the 2E and 4E...

If the sexual scenes in BG3 were mandatory I might be inclined to agree but... they're not? You can romance nobody and you don't have to sleep with Haarlep to progress that plot (which is optional anyway).

I don't think I'd call Ravenloft in 5E watered down. Certainly the nature of some of the domains of dread have changed, but they're still broadly horrific. That said, I do think there's a risk that, in the interest of making a safer product, some of the edge will be sanded off Dark Sun... no...

well, we think Dark sun is coming.

i guess it's more of a millennial thing.

To be fair, none of the above are gonna be a perfect fit for every table. TOV left a lot of problem spells untouched (Conjure Animalls for instance), A5E is super dense and this forum has exhaustively discussed the missed opportunities of 5.24

I still cannot believe they didn't rewrite Find Traps after ten years of it not finding traps.