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Give them the treasure really early in the campaign, and base the campaign about the complications that result - the PCs are suddenly thrown into a tank of sharks and have to quickly learn how to bite back. Maybe. But no more than once.

The older I get, the more I think that's true of every revision to the game ever.

Not at all. Honestly, I'm more interested in arguing over whether this is or is not a new edition than the content itself. And, for the avoidance of doubt, I have no interest in debating that either.

The fans.

The group I'm currently with meet at work in the office. And, for good and sensible reasons, my employers have locked down access to a lot of the internet, and especially games. So anything that requires a connection to DDB, and anything that requires any sort of custom software to view it is...

Are they player characters? And how many XP is the poor person worth? :)

Inflation has been pretty wild these last few years! It's interesting that the cost of the core game has remained relatively static, adjusted for inflation, across all these years, even as production quality has gone up. And it's also good, despite the sticker shock of the new price, that WotC...

I'm pretty much only interested in adventures at this point. But in terms of the vote, the closest would be Locations, then Monsters, then Magic Items.

I backed the Kickstarter for Kobold's Gamemaster's Guide, and bought the Phandelver campaign book when I saw a really good offer on Amazon. I see there's a GM Day sale on over at DM's Guild, which will be my cue to pick up some more Dark Sun PDFs. That's my only planned expenditure in this...

In terms of product, Lost Mine of Phandelver is the only one. But it's a really playable version of the game, and while it's probably not my favourite, its simple popularity is a major boon.

Provided you only ever buy the core rulebooks of the game you're actually playing, it's incredibly good value for money. Every book beyond that shifts the dial in the opposite direction though, since so many of them end up on the shelf unused... or get used and make your game actively worse.

For any game other than D&D (and near-D&D games like Pathfinder and A5E), I'd argue that if you can't fit it in to a single 250ish-page book, you're probably doing something wrong. Actually, the same is true of D&D, but I give that a pass for tradition. That said, almost every additional book...

No. I'm running what is almost certainly my final campaign with my current group, and I have neither the time nor, honestly, the inclination to go find another group. So it may well be my final campaign ever. And with no game running, nor any prospect of one, there's no reason to buy (and so no...

Possibly. Although in the cases of the 81 and 83 Basic sets the designers knew that there was an Expert set coming to expand the roster. That being the case, they would* have cut down on the number of high-level monsters in the Basic set to those they felt they just couldn't live without. (I...

What sticks out to me is the inclusion of the three sets of Basic rules - that limits the list really sharply to the low end. Either adding the corresponding Expert rules, or omitting those from the requirements, but surely significantly expand the set? That said, I'm only surprised by one of...

I'm under no illusions that what I want from the game is what the market wants from the game. And I absolutely am not going to make a game other than the one I want. So I'd start by questioning the sanity of the person who hired me, and then I guess I'd clear my desk. :)

Sorry, I misspoke - I didn't mean to imply that the two should match (!), only that an increase in searches should lead to some sort of increase in sales.

Yes, but it did lead to a massive increase in searches for D&D. Which we were led to believe would lead to a corresponding increase in sales. But, yes, given the hopes pinned on the movie for growing the IP, it may well be considered a middling to huge disappointment within WotC, regardless of...

On the other hand, it was the year when the movie came out and when there was a runaway success in video games. You'd expect the inevitable not-a-new-edition dip to be countered by the corresponding bumps from those two, at least partly. 2024 looks like it's going to be a much more interesting...

We watched this the other night, and I'm also having a hard time understanding why it is such a comparative flop - we thoroughly enjoyed it. And, yes, I agree that Kamala Khan was the best thing in it, and that her series was very enjoyable.