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Granted, but in practicality I know Eberron is WotC's, not Keith's to do with.

Because the first time something doesn't go right, you abandon the concept entirely. We don't know why the Eberron book's cover bent. Bad materials, incorrect binding, misadjusted machinery, etc. They apparently have figured out how to FIX the issue as the new printing should be out in...

Eberron might be Keith's baby, but a.) He doesn't have control over it and b.) its actually a mixture of a lot of things that weren't Keith's, so this is a chance for him to make something he has a LOT more direct control over without as much interference. I don't think it will be Eberron-ish...

Keith's already making a new setting for Daggerheart. Eberron would be superfluous.

For what it's worth, the group only had one Monster Manual with us that day (and it wasn't common to have devices to use your SRD on at table) so when the first wizard summoned celestial elephants, he pretty much hogged the only MM. He was pretty much out of useful spells (remember, every buff...

I've heard it's legit from Spielberg in various interviews, but even in the pacing of the movie it worked because it comes so late into the film you can sense Indy going "I'm too tired for this". But if Indy did that every fight, the movie would have been boring.

Yes. D&D is about survival, not entertainment. What?? There's a joke to be made about love making here, but I'm pretty sure it's against ToS.

I'm reminded of the classic Indiana Jones saber fight where the sword duel was ended with a gunshot. It's a funny moment for the exact reason it's unexpected; Indy doesn't normally just shoot every bad guy and if he did, it would be a boring ass movie. Now imagine if Indy just walked in and...

Isn't that basically what 5e did? Xanathar introduced updated encounter, treasure, and downtime rules. Tasha's gave patches to the base classes and new species rules. Monsters of the Multiverse revised every species except a handful and redid two books worth of monsters. Every background since...

Case. In. Point.

The problem now is D&D players have become impatient. The 5e Kernel is over a decade and a half old if you go though the Next play test, 10 years of 5e, and the One D&D play test, it's one of the most playtested versions of D&D ever. And people are now looking for the All New, All Different D&D...

That's the balancing act. We want characters to get cool toys so we don't end up with 20 levels of "I attack" as your only meaningful option, but the more we feed the game limited resources, tactical abilities, weapon properties, bonus actions, reactions, and dozens of spell choices available...

The problem i see is that barring organized play, their is no enforcement mechanism for balance patches. If you introduce Wish the PHB and it's broken, there is no way to replace Wish with Fixed Wish except by DMs to be aware Fixed Wish exists and manually enforce it at their table. The "making...

I keep saying that you can only speed up combat by severe restrictions on available actions. You would have to cut bonus actions, reactions, pets and summons, and a large chunk of class features to make combat fast enough to finish a character turn quick. Unfortunately, that would also mean...

It exposed to me a whole bunch of issues I was only vaguely aware of. The disparity between good and bad save tracks. Disjunction as a bad spell, especially with 3.5 using magical items to prop up the math. The ability of control magic being able to take players out of whole sessions. The length...

In the final game of one of my DMs epic years long campaign, we fought the lich who was behind most of the campaigns machination. We were all 20th level (3.5) and the lich was built using the Epic Level Handbook. He also has a death knight bodyguard. It was supposed to be epic. It went like...

Marvel was laughing..Snowflame is a DC character.

Yes yes, combat as sport vs combat as war. The problem is that control can ruin both types of play. If the players figure out certain control methods are overwhelmingly viable, they will spam it at every encounter possible. Which leads to either PCs using the I win button every fight or the DM...

Having played one, the vibe I got was storms come in all different types. Thunderstorms, blizzards and of course...

I don't think that would work any better. I know from years of MMO play that boss fights with mechanics often end up relying on "invincibility phases" to stop players from burning past mechanics. I don't find that any better or worse than legendary resistance. And I think the vast majority of...