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1983. Sure, Gammorians are in there somewhere. I find it interesting that for the Lord of the Rings movies, Jackson went with a very traditional goblin look for Moria orcs, but not the "D&D orc" for the rest.

You are talking about a core mechanic. Not quite the same thing, as @dbm articulated.

But they don't. Convincing s shop keeper and disarming a trap maybe, but combat does not look like that. You can't make a skill check to defeat the goblin.

The Astral Plane is the Worst Plane. I treat it like space, except you can breath. You need a ship, or a dreadnaut to ride. I really dislike the whole psychadelic Dr. Strange astral plane thing and lean much more toward the Astral Sea and you navigate it like using spelljammers.

It is my recollection that the looks of Warcraft orcs was a pretty distinct evolution of the Warhammer orc rather than the D&D one. If you look at the FR novel covers of the same time, the D&D orc or goblin does not really look like the Warcraft equivalent. There is, of course, a reciprocal...

I have not experienced what your table seems to have trouble with. I don't find the different categories of actions to be difficult for folks to grasp. But counting them is a pain, especially when what you are counting changes over time or between classes. This is true, and granular can be...

Wasteland is not Fallout.

I don't know. i think 5.5 which will eventually ask you to buy everything again is more of a cash grab.

Were industrious gnomes first popularized in Dragonlance? I don't even know. Did WoW take them from D&D?

That is interesting. I see them as very different. Sure, they use the same resolution system, but combat has a ridiculous amount of granular resources pointed at it, exploration very few, and social next to none. The challenge resolution in each is entirely different, for example.

The 2024 rules changes are not upgrades. They are just different, built to convince you to buy them, not that they are better. The "playtest" was just more marketing BS. They could have just issued anniversary editions of the core books incorporating with new art and on created a rift, but some...

My brain keeps reading "Kobold Night Hunters" and I would back THAT game.

For this tangent, I am deeply ashamed. The point is the customer base is much larger than it has ever been, and that should mean we actually get a greater variety of products because no single product has to sell to everyone to maintain profitability. But we aren't getting that.

From a GM's perspective, I like when mode shifts occur. It helps me reset my brain to the new thing that is happening. That probably has a lot to do with me being a trad gamer for my whole life.

One thing that I find interesting is how different TTRPGs handle the shift from one mode of playing (talking to the Baron) to another mode of play (combat against the Baron's guards) based on the things happening in play. Some games try and minimize the mode shift such that the mechanics are the...

I started playing Inquisitor: Martyr on my PS5 tonight because I need relaxing violence.

Look at you cherry picking.

Look, i.am just saying that I, personally, want something innovative in D&D and the last innovative thing they did was advantage/disadvantage. Everything else for 5E has been playing it safe, 5E 2024 most egregious of all. Everybody is excited to get yet another dusty setting in Dark Sun and I...

What do you think was innovative in 5E led by oldies?

I reject this notion. The whole classic era of D&D was driven by people new to it (because it was new) and many of them VERY young. D&D veterans tend to make things that look like the D&D they grew up with -- which we have overwhelming evidence for. Note again that I am talking about...