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Not only that, but I think the idea that eliminating the DM would be a "monetizing" move for WotC is bizarre. It would be the opposite. Designing adventures that can be run without a DM is WAY more work on the design side, and DMs spend WAY more than players do on the game. Honestly, I'd love...

Very likely Justine Jones, who also did the alt cover. https://www.enworld.org/attachments/480829153_1019549390208193_707160271979014580_n-jpg.397393/

Yeah, I totally agree BUT they did say they would do the update, so they really should follow through on the commitment, even if creators really don't "need" it. I'm not 100% sure they will, unless there is a public outcry that forces their hand. We certainly haven't heard a thing about it...

Just a quick note that 1-on-1 play (1 player/1 DM) for 5E was definitely advertised as a feature for the Essentials Kit boxed set with Dragon of Icespire Peak - it included Sidekick NPCs who could help a solo player. Like you, I assume that the "solo player" style they're talking about here...

They did make a commitment in a DNDBeyond posting to release an updated SRD "within weeks" of the release of the new Monster Manual. We're on week 8. I think if we get it in 2025, that's fine. It took 2-3 years between the release of 5E and the 5E SRD. However, if we don't get an update in...

It might be a metatextual history - like, the history of how that dragon type has been used in D&D, across various settings and editions?

I love the eclectic art. I am holding off on ordering this until we know whether the adventures really are written in the style of the ones from the 2024 DMG (in which case...I don't really need them I'm afraid).

Writing fewer words overall, including boxed text, was definitely something I had to learn as a designer. Area description from my first published adventure (2018): This is filled with excessive detail, irrelevancies, and the area in general has too many distractions/too many little things...

By contrast, here's a couple of solid, direct, useful ones from 5E hardcovers: Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Lost Spire of Netheril area description Keys from the Golden Vault, Tockworth's Clockworks area/event description

#1 is fine, just a little long and wordy. #2 is horrible in many ways. Just to call out a few: - "the temperature increases to 72 degrees" is there a thermometer on the wall? - the furniture is "lavish", "finely-carved", "in the same style" - all empty descriptors which take up time and...

I agree this is very good - Infernal Machine Rebuild is a kind of prequel to it, and is also quite good.

My group actually TPKed against Acererak in that fight. Like you, we took out the hags, and then without resting (we thought we couldn't, though in retrospect with the hags dead we probably could have) entered the final fight and managed to trigger Acererak showing up BEFORE we killed the...

There is good read aloud text, and there is bad read aloud text. There are also people who read text aloud well, and people who don’t.

This is extremely impressive.

This is how I feel about them. If they hadn't reversed course on the OGL, they'd have lost me. But they did. In the grand scheme of corporations doing evil things, Hasbro doesn't even move the evil needle. They sure do find a way to shoot themselves in the foot every six months, though.

Sentences like this are pretty dire: "When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can make it as part of the Attack action instead of as a Bonus Action. You can make this extra attack only once per turn." So romantic.

The account of the Pinkertons incident by the people it happened to seemed at least extreme enough that the guy's wife was reduced to tears by it: Magic publishers sent Pinkerton agents to a YouTuber’s house to retrieve leaked cards

According to their own guidelines, this would not have been an accepted use of the IP. Fan Content Policy | Wizards of the Coast Don’t use Wizards’ IP in other games. This includes your own or other people’s games or game components (e.g., rule books, tokens, figures), regardless of whether...

I don't want to derail the thread, so I'm just gonna direct you to Mastering Dungeons with Teos Abadia and Shawn Merwin; they express my feelings about this adventure more eloquently than I could:

Streaming games using WotC IP is actually expressly permissible under WotC’s fan content policy: https://company.wizards.com/en/legal/fancontentpolicy You’re even allowed to derive passive/sponsor income doing it, and you can even ask the audience to tip you. You just can’t put it behind a...