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Fate is a good example here: Create an Advantage is an action, and because of the open ended nature of Fate, what that advantage is could just as easily be "disarm" as "trip" or whatever.

Compatibility was only ever promised for the existing adventure library.

There is no evidence of this claim. The idea that they don't intend people to buy the new books if they already have the 2014 books is laughable.

[This is part of my ongoing effort to get a solid conceptual foundation for my own RPG design, so the goal is to get a sense of what other folks like and don't like in the domain of the subject.] When it comes to mechanical options available to players, it seems there are two poles: options...

How high does the current starter set go? Maybe it is a follow up for that?

Maybe, but they just did a "high level adventure" and I wouldn't think they would follow up immediately with another.

But it is compatible! But it isn't a new edition!

I bet it is a tier 2 adventure: start at 5, go to 10.

This is a good point. I wonder how many campaigns open with an assumed "end state" versus those that are open ended. My current campaign has a clear goal, with no predefined path to it: the PCs are a BBEG revenge squad. But this campaign has been "artificial" from the perspective that we have...

I have certainly run campaigns that collapsed before completing. More often, I rush a failing campaign to finish earlier than expected. I think failure is usually a result of having too much of a plan ahead of time -- like running an Adventure Path or campaign length Adventure. If you you play...

Too bad WotC does not follow Paizo's examples and release everything as OPEN and actually let folks decide what they wish to buy.

My real point was: it's magic. Who cares?

Canonically, isn't Cthulhu actually a sort of high priest of the Elder Gods?

The magic lady can probably make herself have whatever skin tone she desires.

So is the Ravenloft book the first thing for the year? Is it usual for nothing to be published until June? Or does it look like, for some reason, things got delayed this year by a quarter or so?

Or the Duffer brothers just talked to WotC/Hasbro. Both "demogorgon" and "mind flayer" aren't really protectable (especially since they don't actually look like the things with the same names in D&D) but Vecna certainly is. I am sure WotC realized how much they benefited from ST, and they...

Stranger Things Vecna has nothing to do with actual Vecna, so it would actually probably be more confusing than anything to use the name in Vox Machina (even if the VM Vecana is much closer to D&D Vecna).

I'm all for the idea. I might even pick one or both up based on reviews. I wonder if the December release might be something similar, with a "martial" focused book and an associated adventure (even potentially one in Dark Sun gladitorial pits or whatever).

I just want to highlight this piece. This is a great, evocative, very D&D adventure piece and reminds me of some of the best of the old Dragon Magazine covers.

Maybe this signals a shift to Tier scale adventures, rather than whole campaign ones.