Recent content by Micah Sweet

Sure, but it can be very hard to ignore when the balance between they make stuff you like and they make stuff you don't really starts to shift mostly or entirely into the negative. Quite frankly, not everyone is as strong as you.

Not to everyone, and the jury's out on where AI stands on that issue (literally, kinda). Why else is everyone arguing?

Digital piracy is certainly theft from a legal point of view.

Some nod to creativity and not just profit would be nice.

Unfortunately, the story is actually really important.

It does leave the question unanswered though. If you feel that WotC isn't making good adventures, what can you point to as the reason? Not the people who made it, apparently. The publisher? Yourself?

I think the standards aren't too high for the prices they're charging.

I don't think that's true for all of us. Some of us like D&D and even 5e just fine without WotC.

More evidence that WotC simply does not care about experienced/veteran fans beyond throwing a few nostalgia bones at them to get their $$$ (more this time, obviously). It's all about getting new sources of sales through the door.

Gamer culture has expanded. The old ways are still out there and viable, they've just been joined by other ways.

But doesn't that mean that people are saying we should shy away from the Western culture holy knight, and the class should focus on everything except that version? Ignoring an archetype that is still quite visible in pop culture today and is the narrative core of the class throughout most of...

None of that sounds great for anything except WotC's pocketbook. Of course, that's clearly the important thing.

I expect you're correct in principle, but at this point I would be quite surprised if they mention Athas at all. I'm sure WotC would be very happy if everyone forgot Dark Sun exists.

I still love this series. Sorry I haven't been posting more, but really you do amazing work. I was wondering if you intended to keep going with the 3e monsters in later issues of Dragon, or maybe branching out into the TSR stuff that hasn't been updated to 5e (let alone A5e), like much of the...

Yup. I really miss that priority, which came up a good bit in 2e as well.