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That may be good for WotC but I disagree that that's what's best for the community. I think it's a bad idea for one company to control the content and the medium. I would rather see system-agnostic VTTs continue to grow. I don't agree that WotC has suffered from the existence of 3pp. The sheer...

I don't really care if it's personal or not. People aren't out here complaining that Hasbro hurt their feelings. I also don't really care whether they are "doing their best." I don't know what's in their hearts, I just know their actions. Whether or not corporations as a whole are bad isn't...

I've been watching the indie artists and homebrewers on my feeds scramble all week because it turns out that "the people who need to worry about this" extends far beyond the big players, and Wizards didn't think it was worth their time to give every freelancer and indie artist on instagram a...

I agree. But I think this is complicated by the fact that CR has gotten extremely cozy with WotC and has released official content through them. Exandria is now an "official" DnD setting. Given that their campaigns are always set in Exandria, would they be willing to extract it from DnD...

Well I can tell you what it was like starting with 5e alongside a group made up of other relative newbies: if I pick up a book called the Player's Handbook from the local gaming shop, because that's by far the most common book they would have on the shelf, I expect it to be a handbook that...

So getting back to OP's original question: this is a question I've thought quite a bit about because my current campaign is a homebrewed megadungeon using 5e, and all of my players are very much of the more modern character-focused mindset. When I decided I wanted to build a megadungeon, I...

That does make complete sense, and I can see how that would act as a hard limiter on magic in the world, particularly wizards (requiring both innate ability AND wealth). And depending on how rare you decide to make that spark, I feel like this question kind of answers itself: if magic is mostly...

I've always wondered about this from the opposite end: why isn't it more common in these settings for the average person to have access to these low-level spells that have niche use for an adventuring party but would be extremely useful for a farmer or peasant? Sure, becoming a wizard requires...

Witch hunts or inquisitions are a possible element that could definitely work, but I don't see why it would have to be a given. There are so many examples in fiction of demons showing up as a consequence of say, a curse that was allowed to fester, or ground that was desecrated by a battle, or...

I play with artists who would darn well notice and be mad if they thought I was stealing art because they wouldn't want that to happen to them, so no. I use official art or I credit or I've even commissioned things. If I like an artist enough to use their work regularly, I throw them a few bucks...

So my big question here is, why do they build their city-states in such inaccessible locations? Are they deliberately setting themselves apart from other people and trying to make themselves difficult to reach? Does something about their magical practice necessitate being far away from other...

If you do want to talk to the player, one approach you could take is: "I notice you're struggling with this. Is there anything we can do to make it easier for you?" It's a little less confrontational and makes it clear that your friend is still a friend, and you're willing to work with them to...

For me, it would fully depend upon the campaign itself, the themes and character motivations of the story we're playing, and the context of the TPK. Some stories are most poetic when they end with the heroes going down in a blaze of glory. Some stories feel wrong and unsatisfying if they end...

You know, one of the things that motivates me to purchase an expensive hardcover guide rather than simply looking up its contents online is the artwork. I see physical guides as sort of coffee table artbooks as much as they are guides. Why would I pay money for AI-generated artwork rather than...

Since my current campaign is focused on a giant library, I've mostly thought about the different races in terms of how they might have shaped the materials you can find in the library. For orcs, because they have existed as a nomadic people for thousands of years, they are the most reliable...

Just the once, when my group wanted to try Dragon Heist. It was fine for a setting, but my biggest complaint was that I felt like I was expected to recognize or get excited over every famous NPC cameo or reference to some other module. I imagine it's the kind of thing where you feel more...

Yes and no. I grew up in the Rocky Mountains, so I'm setting my current campaign in a mountain valley out of nostalgia, but I've been drawing on other places like Iceland and the Andes to give it more flavor. I'm the only one in my player group who's lived in rural areas, so I definitely bring a...

Speaking for myself, I picked "I'm ok with those changes, even if my ideal setting has a different aesthetics" because... my ideal aesthetics wouldn't really match most DnD art, new or old. That doesn't mean I think the current art, if it is particularly different from older art, is bad at all...

Having actually come from the internet circles where CR is very big, I would definitely agree that it's a factor in 5e's success but not the sole reason for it. There was a lot of hype for 5e among new players when it first released because we all heard how accessible it was. CR just happened to...

This is where we differ, because I see that pink/purple/blue art mostly showing up in either alt art or on products that aren't necessarily meant to have universal appeal. I see that art as less generic because it's made to appeal to more particular audiences. I don't think you're the only...