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Total aside but wife switched from Motorola to Google Pixel and has had way more issues with autocorrect since. Maybe Motorola has the least-offensive autocorrect on Android?

Yeah that tracks honestly. Every time I've rewatched it's been more and more noticeable how messed-up the pacing is. And I will credit Sanderson with this - whilst I think he's messed up pacing plenty of times, he has managed, even in 1200-page behemoths which should have been edited to like 400...

It is. I could mean absolutely nothing beyond "videogames are tough to direct, I've had enough man!" (I think most likely) or it could be pre-emptively moving Ohlen off a ship he expects to sink (less likely I suspect).

Sadly the novel is pretty bad. I actually gave up on it, which is not normal for me and Hamilton. I think the poor guy got given an absolute metric buttload of worldbuilding info and told to integrate it all, and struggled a bit because it wasn't his creation (despite a brave effort). The...

What is your definition of "usual", Fitz? Because "something someone typically does" is to me, the definition of "usual". And you seem to be saying exactly that WotC typically does this thing you're saying is not usual? Am I going insane? "They didn't always do it" is fine but that's different...

Yeah I think the problem is when people start getting overzealous or knee-jerking, or start bringing in extraneous political/cultural stuff, which we saw a lot with the SW sequels (prior to TRoS I would have rated them overall better than the PT, post-TRoS I can't really say that lol, though...

Autocorrect strikes again! I had a friend complaining about a weak performance from Taliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest yesterday for similar reasons.

That's clearly not "wild speculation". In fact, the "low hanging fruit" claim directly contradicts your "wild speculation" claim. It can't be both. As for "unsubstantiated", this isn't the NYT of yesteryear my dude (the often low-rent NYT of the present day is another matter), this is a normal...

I mean, is it "WotC's direction", or is it that 5E has simply run its course? Or some combination thereof? Or is there even no difference, is the decision to continue 5E rather than doing a 6E the directional issue? Because for me, I find nothing hugely wrong with WotC's direction re...

It is not. It's surprisingly well-written, and quite bad behaviour to mischaracterize it so badly. Especially the era of AI-slop articles which literally are algorithm-bait. If it was bait, it'd sensationalistic or controversial. It's neither of those things. If anything, it shuts down more OTT...

I tend to agree yeah - 192 pages is crazy, especially when 64 are adventure and 64 are bestiary, so everything about the setting (that isn't conveyed in the adventure or bestiary) and all the player-facing rules have to be in the remaining 64! Pain! But they've course-corrected and I hope they...

It sure can be yeah! Especially when they suddenly decide they're "enjoying the ride" but actually, I'm really wanting them to make some decisions and drive the story. This is part of why I much prefer scenario-type adventures to any kind of more directed story with or without decision points...

Oh I'm sure that's true. I don't think we'd have got here if not, and I don't think it's any accident the GMing advice in virtually every game that wasn't D&D was much more modern from the very early 1990s onwards (though still not as modern as what I got from my second cousin, I didn't see...

Thank you. I'm not trying to point this out to be mean or w/e, but I think it's pretty important to separate out what the actual D&D team members might want and what their skills might be from what WotC and Hasbro want and require from them. Especially as most of those designers will likely...

That's a kind of massive win really because you're invalidating your 3 CON by making it so the DM is determined to keep you alive lol. If they let you die, you win, if they won't let you die, you win. There's no legit way out of it for them lol.

Could you even name the "current writers" of D&D? I feel like you probably could not, which, if true, rather undermines this claim. You think that's because of the writers? It isn't. We know it isn't. You've mislocated the problem. It's like you keep tripping over your undone laces, and you...

Is this is a serious response or a parody of how people respond to stuff like that? It's literally impossible to tell but it sure reads like the latter!

I think maybe more than you would expect disliked that because it was kind of a multi-group crossover "hell nah" point for both lore purists/lore conservatives, people who do like Cormyr (who usually want it unchanged and dull as hell - they'd probably still have Azoun IV on the throne if they...

Also if you look at D&D players under like, 35, especially D&D players who started with 5E, it's much, much smaller proportion than ENworld who roll for stats.

Yeah exactly. There's always been this odd judgemental streak where people, in what seems to me is a very false and fake way (but might not be!) act like they're fine with bad stats because one time in 1997 (or worse, 1979), they played a PC with a 6 (but also a 17, which they never mention...