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Umm... multiple news reports released simultaneously with direct hands-on experience.... you do realize that “Fred and Jake”* are the ones who actually made this into a story, right? They choose this time and this method to let the public know about their product, so it’d be kinda weird if...

You are relying on two premises which I’m pretty sure are false. One, from all descriptions of the Reader, I can’t see this costing “a ton of money” to build - and I say that from decades of experience building these sorts of things. D&D Beyond, Fantasy Grounds, Roll20 - those all took massive...

Back in *whose* day? I’ve been playing this since back in the day, and the DMs were just as generous then as now. There’s no right or wrong way to play the game as long as you’re having fun, and in my experience no two groups ever really play it the same way anyway. :)

We don't know the arrangement between Dialect and WotC, but this doesn't seem like a giant money sink (and if it's anything like their other projects recently, largely funded by the 3rd party - not WotC). Of course, we can't tell until we see the app, but from seeing Dragon+ and from what has...

Looking around some more, Polygon has a slightly better article on it, with details including it being built by Dialect that does Dragon+ and that the Polygon author tried a (buggy) beta. So, you get: - You can swipe to turn pages (so actually doesn't flow like Kindle) - You can bookmark stuff...

"Yup. Beyond is more activity-oriented, so it can handle stuff like dice rolls. Reader is basically Kindle, with good, clear chapter divides." is actually completely wrong. A) D&D Beyond actually does not handle any dice rolling. At all. Someone even went ahead and made a Chrome extension to do...

Also, this is one of those times that I have to do the math and then be shocked that 20 years of experience would barely include the 90’s and TSR at all. Zoinks!! Definitely helps me feel old remembering that the majority of gamers I know weren’t even alive until after 3.0 was released. ;)

I think the issue with people finding them bland is not "there's no flavor text." It seems to me that it is more of an issue of: "Do you think these racial traits are balanced?" The answer may be yes for most people. however "Do you think these racial traits best capture how this race should...

Selective quoting can be annoying, but I don't think this is an issue worth elevating the spite-o-meter over. ;) It's tangential to the thread anyways, so... uh... back to the topic, anyone start actually playing Tomb of Annihilation yet? Sadly my group voted to do Out of the Abyss instead...

It's not a big deal. :) Either DDB is worth it for you or not, but just to clarify what I said... Galendril said: And then you replied: Sure, Galendril didn't elaborate on how they thought it was easier, but the flow of it sort of felt like this: You were calling them out for saying DDB...

As others have said, the D&D outer planes are FAR much more than a Christian Heaven and Hell. It sounds like you might have had some bad experiences with planar gaming and only experienced a slight fraction of it. It's like starting to read Tolkien and thinking "This Shire place is boring. I...

Yes, these look like a lot of fan conversions - aka "What were their abilities before? Now, convert to 5e." I know it's a fine line between changing things too much and fans complaining and just doing a bland x-to-x conversion. The conversions I enjoy are typically more like looking at the...

To be fair, you did edit out where they said it's better. :) And in my experience with it so far, when first reading an adventure, I did flip back and forth with the index a lot, but that flipping was far easier with DDB than a physical book because I could jump straight to the section I want...

Being creative types, it could also be common to feel that after spearheading the launch of a major new line (keeping in mind that even if it's just coming out now, they have been working on it for a long time already), they have reached a peak there and want to explore new options.

That's what I get for going from memory. ;) Either way, he's a great addition to Paizo! Keep in mind that "shelf space at a couple local FLGS" isn't exactly solid data. Even if 5e is doing great, that could go either way for Paizo. On the one hand, they are competitors, so one can easily pull...

I don't recall him running D&D, but I know he was in charge of a lot of the outreach when 3.0 launched. He headed up the Official Fan Site program. Also, I remember him running the initial "scanning the old books to make PDFs" effort. Awesome to see him involved! He's a great guy and knows this...

Sorry, didn't realize it was behind the login. But, yes you get the full text of the books (although I didn't see the disclaimer) :( as web pages. Typically a page for each chapter, I think. There's a left navigation for jumping between sections, and everything that they can link into the tools...

At D&D Beyond all adventures are $24.99. This should take you to it, I think. Edit: Oh, ninja'ed!! :)

Just quick clarification because it could easily be misconstrued, but it's "epic" in being expansive and dealing with grand ideas, not "epic" as in 3.0-style Epic Level 21+. Wasn't sure if that's what you meant, but just in case, I'd hate to see that misunderstanding spread. :) I'm not involved...

I have backed quite a few with various results. But in addition to those mentioned above that went well, I have been VERY impressed with Justin Andrew Mason's Kickstarter for BigBookOfMaps.com. He's still in fulfillment, but is currently 152 days AHEAD of schedule. Of the many RPG Kickstarters...