None.DMG 2? What book is supposed to be that?
Xanathar's Guide to Everything, then Tasha's is DMG 3. They also pull double duty as PHB 2 & 3. The closest they will ever come to either, at any rate.
Yes. They were supposed to do a DMG3 in 4e as well. They were designed to cover the 3 tiers of play. The 3.5 DMG2 was more general advice and such than a continuation. They also had a PHB2 in 3.5 and I think that it sold well enough that it “justified” the model for 4e.There was a DMG 2 for 3rd edition as I remember, was there one for 4e?
Hasbro risk averse in storylines? Have you looked at transformers in the last 20 years? Decepticons are portrayed as socialists who rose to up lift the downtrodden and lost their way and Autobots are the fascists who oppressed the Decepticons and are now reaping the fruits of that dynamic in the war for Cybertron. While true that the recent Bumblebee animated series were less risky the core lore for modern transformers has been generated in the comic books from IDW and it’s definitely not sanitized. Same with GI Joe. They’re risk averse in their animation but the rest of the product line not so much. Not even the WFC animated series is that risk averse.
Yeah but what I am referencing is a poster saying Hasbro is risk averse. I am addressing Hasbro specifically not WOTC, in that regard. WOTC is gun shy about a lot.If you look at the Dev Blog, Winninger says that Hasbro has essentially no influence on what WotC publishes. What Transformers does has zero meaning on what D&D will do.
Well, they've specifically disavowed doing books aimed specifically at either players or DMs, and that has worked out for them. The content that would be in a DMG 2/3 and PHB 2/3 is in Xanathar's and Tasha's, however, so it is as close as they will ever be to that specifically.Oh... I don't own Tasha's yet so won't speak on it, but I definitely don't feel Xanathar's is a DMG 2. I know one of the three chapters is for DMs, but a 1/3 of a book doesn't really make it a "DM book" to me. Comparatively, those setting books (or monster books) are more DM-useful.