Recent content by Juomari Veren

When it first came out I remember it being extremely underwhelming. I don't know how much they've iterated on it since but the fact that it didn't seem like it did much as a baseline whole being built around a mechanic that can be hard to balance without just making it bad was a big turn-off.

It's almost certainly a matter of sensitivity; Martial arts that mimic drunken swaying are often a little over-stylized in media and it often reduces the character in question to an alcoholic, which some tables do not want to have that vibe if anybody in the group has traumatic correlations to...

I don't know, some settings don't have enough to say on certain subjects I feel, or we'd get something like Spelljammer where they let it cook a little too long with too few ingredients. Maybe if some of the releases are priced like Forge of the Artificer but come in two installments that'd...

The implication from the blurb is that this is Eddie's unfinished campaign, which means that the in-universe explanation is probably that Mike and the gang wrote an ending themselves, and thus could reasonably inject the upside down as an element to the story.

Yeah but I don't know the hire date of the person who went on the press circuit about the franchise model, or how quickly and effectively they're working, or that there's even a way to improve performance in that regard. My gut says we won't see any meaningful difference through 2026, maybe at...

I appreciate the vote of confidence for market synergy, but historically the sourcebooks that coincide with Magic sets (Ravnica, Theros, Strixhaven) have taken 6 months minimum from the associated set release to come out. Lorwyn is probably the Q3 book you're pondering over.

They can and they should. It worked to buy microfiction with some Eberron character options slapped on (at least with Forge of the Artificer we're also getting some meaty DM content this time too), there's no reason to repeat the formula since it was so successful. Also, with all due respect...

I think it's better but still not good. Monks don't want to spend more than 2 ki points for a single feature and they definitely want something cooler than a spell for it if they do. The Beholder tattoo is laughably bad, 4d12 force damage is pathetic and they need to at least increase the...

No way the turnaround can be that quick in a market that has a keen eye from hobbyists and collectors, 99% of products need to be announced at least a fiscal quarter or season ahead of their actual release regardless of how long it takes to produce and whether or not it happens beforehand; A...

New BECMI would be cool, especially if they decided to make epic levels and put them out this way (in addition to eventually putting it into a book obviously).

I'm about to start playing in my first 3.5 game in more than a decade and was pondering quietly to myself what, if any, merit there would be to something like this (Including a number crunch like Payn also wanted to fit within the realms of bounded accuracy) but honestly, I just don't think it's...

Chris Perkins sums up my feelings on humans in fantasy extremely well; Once, when asked by a fan what his favorite type of creature to use as villains in a D&D campaign was, he simply answered, "Humans." And they're a necessary evil; They're the devil you know, because fact of the matter is...

If I may make one recommendation, even if this is a one-off instance of transcribing; Put this in a spoiler so that way it doesn't make one post that's several paragraphs long?

They don't have one for the game as a whole, but the Commander group went through a whole bunch of drama and ultimately got absorbed into Wizards when before it was an independently run committee. And with all due respect, Commander is their most popular format, they've admitted as such, so it's...

I find it interesting that both of WoTC's major products (Magic and D&D) now have their own individual community advisory groups for the game now. I wonder if that was part of the onus that lead to them making this decision?