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Such a Cormyr-ass thing to do! Always with the bureaucracy, always with the charters! smdh (I kid but goddamn, I swear if 3E hadn't come out one of my 2E campaigns would probably have involved with the very high level PCs overthrowing the Obarskyr dynasty out of sheer annoyance with them...

I don't think so personally, I think it's much more likely it was the result of the particular risk-averse corporate leadership being worried that it wouldn't fit with D&D's ultrasafe image. I don't think the social media climate is overall more positive re: the particular issues Dark Sun...

I'm not sure why competence would be an issue. Changes of corporate leadership are almost always accompanied by some changes of direction. It's incredibly unusual for them to not be, in a corporate environment, frankly. So I doubt it's "can't follow it", what's much more likely is "have a...

MorningLightMountain remains one of the greatest antagonists in SF I swear. Also probably one of the most frequently-referenced fictional characters between my wife and I lol.

Well, too bad I'll never get to see that lol because the digressions in book 3 were just a step too far (but I did finish the book, I'll give him that!). When he put out the first book I had six RL friends reading it. The last gave up after book 4. Maybe he can do an experiment in condensing...

I don't think that is a common definition of "clickbait", I'm afraid. Not saying it's an impossible or unreasonable one, but the word "common" has a meaning. Especially with "extremely" attached to it. I looked it up to see if this was just me having a big blindspot or out-of-touch with how a...

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...