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You forgot Minthara. Currently running for 29 players across 4 campaigns, plus one-shots like one per month or so. Players range in age from 20s-50s; most are in their 30s. I haven't seen any instances of this. I'd say maybe 25%-30% of them have played BG3.

Sort of? But WotC owns and derives royalties from everything on DMsGuild so it's questionable whether those are "3rd party" in the way that Mearls means? Plus, I guess that's not exciting enough for him? I'm not pretending I know what he's talking about, hence my confusion.

But Mearls seems specifically to be asking "If 2024 D&D is so exciting, where are all the great 3rd party products supporting 2024 D&D like we had with 3.0?" There are loads of 3rd party 5E products coming out. Nobody can specifically create a 3rd party product that uses/celebrates the 2024...

Yeah that's a bizarre take. I agree we've passed the current peak, but D&D is a permanent thing in our culture. It'll have another peak years in the future, and then another valley. The brand will be bought and sold again. But there isn't a post-D&D anymore than there is a post-Spider-man or...

I do think the modern cultural D&D boom probably peaked in 2022. However, what does he mean "where are the 3rd party products?" How can there be 3rd party 5.5 products without a 5.5 OGL?

A AAA might - MIGHT - license it only because of the extreme success of Baldur’s Gate 3. Of course, a AAA also might realize, as the Solasta team does, that they can effectively make a D&D game without WotC due to the 5.1 SRD being in Creative Commons.

Video games do. Baldur's Gate 3 had a budget of $100M and that was considered p reasonable since Larian isn't/wasn't a AAA company. A D&D game made by a AAA studio might have a budget of $200M or more (for example, Bethesda spent $300M-$400M on Starfield).

Oh God please not another thread about whether Honor Among Thieves was profitable. I have PTSD.

I enjoy the campaign books too, but there has been an undeniable drop in their quality over the past 4 years and for that reason alone I'm glad to see them pumping the breaks for a year. I hope when they do release another one it'll be more coherent than recent stuff like Turn of Fortune's...

Realistically, due to how expensive print has become, that sort of product only makes sense to do digitally. Even print-on-demand single-adventure paperbacks would be quite pricy.

I loved the movie, but I was really surprised that it was so long, which no doubt ballooned the budget. To me it's clear that a D&D movie should be a tight 90-95 minutes, 100 tops. 134 minutes is crazy to me, but I guess a blockbuster movie has to be that long now? 90-95 movie gets more...

I don't know that they feel it's important that each class have the same number of subclasses, apart from the PHB. They certainly haven't worried about that for the past decade. I expect we'll see books like Bigby Presents, Van Richten's, and Fizban's, and the MTG sourcebooks that add only 1-2...

It was Candlekeep Mysteries. Specifically, the Book of Cylinders adventure - there was an author vs editor meltdown over various elements, mostly about grippli.

If the October book isn't a campaign-length hardcover adventure book, it'll be the first year for more than a decade that there isn't one.

Baldman Games had/has exclusive permission to use the Moonshaes for their Adventurer's League releases. In the 5E era, they released tons of Moonshae adventures and some supplements for years. It's all on DMsGuild: New on the Dungeon Master’s Guild – Baldman Games

Reading Keith's actual post at the time, it doesn't seem like he was angry at WotC with regard to Eberron at all, nor did it really seem like he was tired of working on Eberron. The main issue seemed to be that the DMsGuild model (which was the only way he could release Eberron content & get...

I really like the eclectic art style for Dragon Delves. However, I'm not enthusiastic about the adventures in this book being done in the style of the ones in the new DMG. Those are perfect examples of the amount of info you actually need to write down if you're just running a homebrew...

Early release for PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon Part 24. To Deephall Point and onward to the Desolation. Available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: To Slay a Dragon Part 24

Loran the Elk leads the party to the lair of the spider queen. Episode 14 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and E.N. Publishing, is now available on YouTube!

I do think that what your DM, and others, have done is essential to making DoMM work. As published, the book falls short on this. It's a great location, or series of locations. There are some suggested "missions" but they're paper thin. I realize it's an enormous book already, but a chapter...