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You’re absolutely right, Ezekiel. About everything. I no longer have the time, inclination, or spoons to deal with your essay-length broadsides that fill any thread where someone mentions 4e, let alone criticizes any one of its possible shortcomings. You’ve made another forum unbearable for me...

I can see where Chris Perkins is coming from. Classic D&D, 1e, 3e, and 4e all take rather strict positions on what kind of game they are. Classic D&D and 1e are exploration games. 3e is simulationist: the rules describe the world. 4e offers heroic, high fantasy, with combat expected. In...

Not really. The one dating the Lovecraftian abominations is a high school boy, not girl.

They say SAN-chi pinchi! (SAN-stat in trouble!) about 13 times before the main verses even begin.

Here's the ENWorld thread on it, which you were a part of! Here's a post wherein @Ondath detailed what was in that initial release into CC. Basically, everything except character classes, subclasses, races, spells, and monsters.

Much obliged, I will edit accordingly.

I may be pissing in the wind here, but here's a summary of the OGL timeline, for posterity and reference, if nothing else. I have endeavored to include just the facts, without speculation or interpretation. Late in 2022 (Riggs suggests August in the video), WotC met with third party publishers...

I do monster knowledge checks like this: Applicable skills: Arcana (for non-natural monsters), History, Nature, Religion (for undead), and Survival If the PCs clear the following DCs, they know... DC 5 - the name of the monster DC 10 - how it typically attacks DC 15 - some special resistances...

It is certainly true that in the parlance of the time, Mearls was on the "development team" rather than the "design team" for 4e, but for our purposes, that's a distinction without a difference. The job of the development team was to implement the ideas of the design team. So they would need to...

Hmmmm… Chargen tiles sounds a lot like how chargen is done in the Sword World 2.5 RPG Building Box.

I just wanted to say that I really appreciated this discussion, and all its participants, for 474 enlightening replies of diverse perspectives, civil disagreement, and debate. If only every thread could be like this!

Thanks for the reply and insight. I figured there had to be reasons.

They certainly hit the technical definition of a 2024 release. But don’t you feel it could have been…more? In 2014, it was a year long celebration of 40 years that included releasing new printings of the 1e, 2e, and 3e core books, the renewal of PDF sales for out-of-print products, and the...

Ray, given the above, do you have any insight as to the Starter Set situation? I.e., why a new starter set was released 2 years before the new rules, and yet another one planned for release a year after the new rules, rather than having one primed and ready to release with the new rules?

I’m sure there reasons internally that made some kind of sense, but from the outside the timing just looks weird. Stormwreck Isle released in 2022, the same year they made the OneD&D announcement. Had sales of Lost Mines plummeted so much that a new starter set had to be put out then? But then...

Holy crap, that was my exact same reaction.

I'm just going to take this opportunity to note that, IMO, the on-ramp that Mike Mearls and his team built for 5e is tremendously underrated as a factor to 5e's sustained growth and success. Even if interest in D&D was given an adrenaline shot by Critical Role and Stranger Things, that's not...

1000% agreed, and I’m someone who loves and advocates for “old style” play.

I was just looking through an old, unfinished Let's Read I did of the D&D Next playtest, and I would say the following were throughlines for the whole of the playtest: -d20+modifiers vs. DC, with Advantage/Disadvantage -Bounded accuracy -"Chunking" of character generation, and in a wider sense...

@mearls talked about it in his Legends & Lore column back in 2011, before 5e was even announced. Unfortunately, the Legends & Lore articles are lost to the ether, taken offline when WotC rebuilt the D&D webpage a few years back. In 2015, I did a retrospective thread on Mearls' articles, found...