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The thing is: Mearls not only defended Zak S but also (from what I've heard) transferred confidential messages he received from Zak's victims to Zak himself. This is what he's glossing over when he says Mearls was fired over a Twitter mob. As much as I love Mearls's design (and I actually agree...

Thing is, Justin is giving the appropriate credit to Jennell only in the online articles. From what I understand (I don't have his book but this is what people who bought the book are saying), he removed all of the references to Jennell and how he only operationalised a way to build dungeons...

I'm assuming you mean money that they'd get from selling the 2014 core rulebooks. But again, those will be obselete by the end of the year, and you probably need a couple of months of development time to implement everything properly. So while yes, they are not getting any of the potential 2014...

Alright. I do think that's a silly opinion since you can actually sell months' worth of books with the free SRD + any adventure released until the 2024 core books are out with the current model, and why should you leave money on the table? It looks like WotC and FoundryVTT also made the same...

I think one point that's often missed with Tiny Hut is its 200 GP cost for each casting. So yes, a 2nd level ritual spell does provide safe haven, but it requires you to spend 200 gold for every night you use it. Assuming a 4-man party, that means you're getting safe haven for 50 GP per night...

I kinda missed the last 3 pages of discussion, but doesn't the announcement make it clear that they didn't want to sink development time on 2014 core rulebooks that will be obselete later this year? This probably means the 2024 rulebooks will be available quite soon after their release. Would...

Why did Gale sacrifice himself? I couldn't get him on the party for the final fight, and he seemed to be fine afterwards.

I had that impression from the start, but yeah, some of the decisions are just bad unrelated to access to ruleset (like having a chapter set in Thay but giving the GM no materials on how to present Thay besides some rules for adjudicating the social interaction with the Thayan diplomat).

Yup. Alexandrian can stuff his self-congratulating nomenclature for all I care. Jaquaysing it is.

Except Jennell was saying she was pretty honoured to have the term named after her in several social media posts, and only explicitly asked Justin to add the "s" as a correction, dating back a very, very long time. The blog post documents that Jennell was okay with having the term be named after...

Finally finished the game with my Dark Urge Wizard. No notes. I'll wait until the Enhanced/Expanded/GOTY Edition release (when hopefully they'll add the Upper City and expand on a few hanging plot threads), but I was really satisfied with the game's ending. I'm also very happy that I finished...

A new blog post posted by a trans person essentially argues that it's Xandering the dungeon that should be avoided. Honestly, I felt uneasy about the whole renaming, and seeing how Alexander has approached the issue really eroded my trust in him. Now that Jennell is gone and we can never really...

I am truly saddened to hear this. May she rest in peace, and may her design inspire many more hobbyists to come.

I know, but firing a senior designer for two of your mainline games still seems like a big thing.

Holy crap, I was not expecting to see Mearls's name among those let go. I feel like this will disrupt their future plans massively. And I think it's high time I divested myself from WotC to play D&D.

Oh yeah, my interpretation is definitely a stretch! But we are trying to salvage a runaway line from a story arc that aired 37 years ago and belongs to an era of the show that is grealy maligned for its writing, so any workable version of the Valeyard will definitely take a loooot of creative...

Technically the line goes "Somewhere between the Doctor's twelth and final incarnation", IIRC - you could interpret that as being anywhere between 12 and the ones that come after him.

This would be the only way with which I'd be okay with this, but I don't think any sane writer wants to truly tackle the Valeyard. It's got more Continuity Snarl to deal with than it's worth.

There were so many other ways they could do this without adding this much twist to the continuity (for instance, couldn't 15 intervene and then say "You sit there and rest now, eventually you'll become me and I'll take the mantle). I feel like this causes the whole series to be overshadowed by...

Hm. I'm not sure if we all heard the same rumours. Here's what I heard (obviously big spoilers for the Giggle if they prove to be correct):