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I also did 2d10 for ability checks in my two CoS games in order to get the bell curve and make the modifiers have a little more impact on results. (Kept the d20 for combat just due to ease of use and for the criticals on Nat 20s). After going with the 2d10 for a long time, we came to the...

I suspect that for most people who have never actually trained in improvisation, the term 'Yes, And' has become merely a shorthand for what it means to improvise, even though (as you say), it's really only one specific use-case in the improvisor's toolbox. The same way people who aren't full...

Based on the hundreds of thread pages in hundreds of threads of people caterwauling about the most ridiculous things regarding this game... I can only say that that'd probably be a good thing. You can only read a "Psionics shouldn't have components!" thread or a thread arguing about the...

People should stop wasting their own time if you ask me, LOL! One either likes the brand or they don't. Hoping for, or trying to change a brand into what one likes is silly.

Ding! Which is why I have no idea why people are so dead-set on wanting D&D to be this singular, tightly-focused game of theirs. Why D&D and not any other game? What's wrong with all the other hundreds of RPGs out there? Why does it have to be D&D? Because it's the ubiquitous one? The one...

Well, then they don't have to bother after all then!

Sure! Just gotta hope that whatever Luke ends up writing gets through the editorial process without getting things changed to a more modern paradigm. One can hope, right? :D

Yeah... or the few people who are tied to having these settings exactly as they were the first time can just use the old books they already own, rather than worrying about the new version that gets released that changed a few things. Either or. :)

I suspect their desire to change pre-existing settings is because a lot of the stuff in those settings is 1970s and early 80s cultural design baggage and baloney. :)

A starting area is not a campaign setting (at least not as I expect Reynard is thinking it as.) Making a generic starting area is one thing and certainly doable... but a whole entire world is something much different.

I feel that a new setting is one of the most time and labor-intensive design projects there is. Having to design an entirely new world and make it a cohesive whole is not something you can just pass off casually to a bunch of other freelance writers like you can an adventure anthology. You need...

I voted for two (5E and FATE), as my third choice would have been the Roll & Keep system from AEG's 7th Sea and the Legend of the Five Rings.

Fine (general person). Don't do anything. But don't then complain (general person) that WotC isn't doing anything either. If you (general person) can't be bothered... there's no reason to think WotC should be. (I realize of course, @Artamo, that you weren't one of the people complaining that...

People have been hooked on rage clicks since the very beginning. And apparently your YouTube algorithm has decided you are one of those rage clickers and that's why they are linking those videos to you. From the minor bits of YouTube futzing I have heard over the years... if you write a couple...

If we don't put DMs Guild sales being an indicator of demand, then what do we use? WotC's not going to just produce an anthology of Eberron-specific or Ravenloft-specific modules in a hardcover "Candlekeep Mysteries" type of book just on a whim. Just in the hopes that there are enough Eberron...

How are Eberron modules on DMs Guild selling? I would no doubt expect WotC knows how sales are for Eberron products made by 3rd parties are doing there. And if so-called "fans of Eberron" aren't supporting Eberron products on DMs Guild in any appreciable number... it would not be surprising at...

When Ed and Keith make DMs Guild products for Faerun and Eberron, they can do whatever they want with them and write and design them to their own desires. When Penny Arcade moved their Acq Inc. product and Critical Role moved their two Exandria products over to be published by WotC... they most...

Is the book an actual WotC-published setting book, or is it going to be a DMs Guild publication for Luke (like the Bandit Kingdoms and upcoming Dalelands products were/are for Ed?)

True, but my real point is that if you build a character to the scenario and background of the campaign, the class and species will sort themselves out. If the scenario given by the DM for the game is "guards protecting a caravan heading to an elven enclave"... it won't do a whole lot of good...