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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...

Yeah really putting the 3 in CON is absolutely the smart play here if the DM won't allow you to re-roll it for some reason.

My experience is that nice (i.e. almost all) adult players will always act like a rising tide lifts all ships, but on close observation, it's pretty obvious that significantly poor balance of any kind results in people have more/less fun, barring truly unusual individuals (in either direction)...

Power-tripping DMs/GMs/Storytellers etc. are a real thing, and sometimes that power-tripping manifests as being a "killer DM", especially if the person has already had the idea that a good DM is a killer DM inculcated in them. I'm not sure that antisocial behaviour is reliably curbed by...

That you have to phrase it like that demonstrates that the stretch is definitely not on my part! Nor really yours! But on the blogger. "Single-class" and "not incorrect" and "raised" is very different from: That's a lot! That's a wild and prima facie untrue claim to make. We can argue that in...

Yeah it's a shockingly shallow and rather unevidenced take from this blog. The idea that 5E14 was "internally consistent" but 5E24 isn't, is frankly, well it's kinda dim as a take. There's no really any clever or generous way to describe it. That's at best a silly and rather vapid claim. Also...

Treating this separately, I think the issue is that Swen (not Sven, but I assume that's autocorrect's devilish hand at work) has promoted Larian specifically on that basis! You seem to be writing here as if people had merely assumed Larian were a "gaming paradise" (whatever that means -...

As I said, the sex assault guy appears to be based in Warsaw. No idea how that could be confusing and it's certainly not "speculation" in the same sense as "Right-wing views may not be fireable offence there, or at least could require a significant paper trail". That's the least-informed...

You know, you could just... not speculate wildly about Europe as it if was Mars or Faerun. I can tell you, you can absolutely fire someone in any country Larian has offices in*, for expressing fascist/racist views - they're not a protected characteristic (insanely, bigoted anti-trans views...