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I am not sure all the planes and stuff are all that relevant to most players, and FR is mostly just 'generic fantasy', so not sure how much can attribute to simply the trademark name vs the IP itself. I tend to ascribe most of it to the trademark alone. I also read your 'shared world' as not...

They have brand recognition, that probably accounts for 90% of their sales / market share right there, it's not like 5e is so much better than the competition after all... They have their adventures etc., and obviously much of the PHB is not actually in the SRD, which contains only 1 subclass...

If you are the next Tolkien, you can restrict races to humans only for all I care...

I would assume that the better word would have been ‘announcements’ rather than ‘releases’. We know nothing about the upcoming releases

maybe because they are not important, which would suggest that this is just a holiday card without any deeper implications

maybe, it certainly does not hint at Dark Sun though ;)

yeah, pretty sure some did, I just don’t think it was anywhere near as ubiquitous as some make it sound… I basically went with ‘I would hate if this were done to me / my character’, and never did as a DM. YMMV of course

is it? to me it is about being less powerful characters, less hard rules and more actual descriptions of what you do vs rolling against a DC, not about the DM being adversarial yeah, some grognards were upset, by and large that was a tempest in a teapot however. Basically no one noticed and...

no one thinks they were not used at all, the question is how widespread they were. I started playing with 1e and I never took to that advice, if anything it made Gary look like a jerk as far as I was concerned. Still do not have a high opinion of him as a person

as far as the blog goes, it sounds more like the change is the issue rather than 5e getting long in the tooth. Not sure 6e would have helped if it were moving in the same direction while being less held back by compatibility not sure about 3 years ago vs now, the points you brought up are...

non-zero as in one, Dragonbane, or were you thinking of something else?

not a fan, I don’t need a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (1984) dressed up as a Tortle (1986) in my game

still exotic, that there are also other exotic species does not change that. If a species is played at, say, less than 10% of tables, I would consider it exotic, and I very much doubt the tortle clears that bar are tortles prominently featured in the rest, or are they basically not mentioned...

I know Rust monsters and flumphs are not playable species. Tortles are exotic in the sense that they are rarely being played, just because they apparently were invented in 1986 does not change that. Elves and dwarves are not exotic, tortles are. A setting / table not having eg elves is rare...

eh, they are still exotic and did not show up in almost anything until the Tortle Package for 5e. Just because a bad idea is old does not suddenly mean it is not a bad idea, calling it ‘legacy’ does not change that. Can you find a place for them if you want to, sure, doesn’t mean you have to.

oh well, I tell it how I see it, no need to defend or condemn everything 2014 or 2024, both are far from perfect ;) some might, you still should not expect this from everyone though

they certainly retread a path created in 2e, in a similar way to Hollywood reboots. They are more ‘inspired by’ than imitations. As to long term impact, who knows. On the one hand doing it first always will have some impact, on the other they have sold more for longer now than the 2e versions...

not sure why that is a problem to admit, do you expect everyone to either love 2024 or mindlessly defend 2014 as the ‘perfect edition’? That monsters do not hit hard enough, esp at higher levels has been pointed out for years, that ranged attacks and mobility actions should be available for...

nothing whatsoever, well maybe my idea of how good they are at their job ;) Mostly that I expect them to be qualified enough to achieve what they set out to do, ie the result is intentional and therefore allows me to infer their original goals and intentions. Apart from that, this is a matter...