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I did not buy the physical version of the 5e Monster Manual 2024, I bought the digital version for Foundry VTT, so some of the things mentioned I have not experienced. Overall: Simplifying the monsters overall, but specifically the abilities and writing them down more efficiently is imho the...

Honestly, I can see the appeal, in certain cases. People can argue all they want, but the Traveller rules are a hurdle for folks that are primarily used to D&D, that's not even mentioning a particular Traveller setting. And compared to something like Mothership, Traveller is super crunchy. Our...

But does that role need to be with the DM specifically? In our group that's something someone else is better at, so they've got that job for the last 35 years... A lot of us feel spent after a morning/day/night of DMing. One of our group once explained it with extroverts get energy from being...

For me, the short of it, I enjoy DMing when I want to, I do not enjoy DMing when I feel I have to. And when I talk about DMing, it's not just the actual session, that is imho the easiest part, but all the prep work is imho the hardest part. Not everything is a pleasure, but satisfaction is also...

With a name like "Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition" that becomes kinda hard, especially when most short hand notes it as A5E, even the official Foundry VTT package is called a5e... I would even say that the D&D brand is essential for it's marketing, as the 'advanced' version of D&D5e, breaking...

You're right, they were 'clones', expansions, products WotC wouldn't or couldn't produce. You could plug something in anything else pretty much within the D&D/D20/OGL ecosystem. But with the shattering of the license and folks either made new incompatible licenses or dumped licenses all...

That is part of the 'problem', but the issue of adding stuff is not that you add one option, you add one thing that can interact with countless other things, the more you add, the worse it gets. This was my biggest issue with 3e where we as a group decided to allow everything officially...

There are a few folks that are pulling out very old cows out of a ditch. Yes, TSR was not very nice, but that particular chapter closed when WotC bought TSR in '97 and Hasbro bought WotC in '99. IF the TSR mentality was still in control at that time, this site would have never existed. Eric Noah...

You mean since 1976... Source: Dr. Dobb's Journal - Vol 1 : People's Computer Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Explanation: Copyleft - Wikipedia

While that might be what she said and/or how you interpreted, it might just be that she wants to learn D&D as the most played game, in the same way people want to learn Windows (vs. Linux or MacOS). Or she didn't like how Daggerheart played and hopes that the popular D&D she heard so much about...

From my perspective no one won, some just lost less then others. WotC stopped using the OGL, they now use CC and thsoe two are not exactly compatible with each other... The license field shattered with new ones popping up all over the place. Many publishers vowed support for some license (ORC)...

And this was VERY clear from the outset, a rollercoaster themepark, but not an issue if you knew what you were getting into. In our group we went through only a small part (Neverwinter and it's flip side), and other maps were reused when the situation changed (DM/players). But I would have...

Background: In January I played a two session heist (D&D) game as a player, two person party. A week ago I DMed a session in Undermountain where one of the player scouted a bit with their familiar, three person party. All were played in FVTT. While I understand where you're coming from, I think...

Ed Greenwood does not have eternal life... I hope he gets to be a 100+ and continues to write for FR, but WotC/Hasbro is an immortal corporation. And let's not forget, we don't know the exact details. It might be as little as a 32 page adventure for all we know or a map book (like the 2e one)...

From what I'm seeing on the technical side, we're hitting technical walls that can't be solved due to the nature of LLMs. And that would mean we would need something else AI that's not LLM to get over those walls. But we'll see. BG3 and Solasta I don't see as replacements for pnp RPGs, I see...

I think hamburgers vs. fries is the bad comparison. Think more of it of restaurant vs. drive-through, if the restaurants are mostly empty and most sales go through the drive-through. Would you build the next location with an as big restaurant? Or would you concentrate on the drive-through...

Do you have a source for that besides your gut? We have data that in 2024 60% of the D&D sales were digital... Care to explain that in context of your statement?

I've played around with a couple of different LLMs for this, including a specialized service for this (forgot the name). It was interesting, and I can see why people like it. But... I tend to see that people 'try' it and that's generally a short individual session, not a campaign. When we look...