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if anything, they accelerate 6e, but there is no going back to 2014

Bookscan sales, in comparsion to earlier adventures https://alphastream.org/index.php/2023/10/09/are-dd-sales-declining/

would have been cheaper to chip in for that than make every player buy the PHB

not really, those books were generally not selling as well to begin with, so at best you delayed a further decline, but the goal is to revitalize / grow sales yep, and that is kinda the worst case scenario for the 2024 core books

I don’t know which ones they are, the two examples SF mentioned are in the SRD. Would have been nice if the book pointed that out though, esp since not everyone uses the digital version

you can look them up if you have them, they are not all in the 2014 MM, that was the point

but looking at it from the perspective of any other launch is misleading, no other TTRPG had anywhere near 5e numbers. That is like saying the latest MCU movie would have done great if you looked at it from the perspective of low budget indie movies

not sure where this promise is from, but the OP makes it sound like there was one, at least for this book and again, I have no problem with it being intentionally incompatible with 2014, but then say so on the back

except when you do not have them, as the book does not contain any, just the monster names

the difference is that here Diamond is trying to steal the products in their warehouse that they do not actually own

chances are the person you are replying to has them blocked or vice versa

they are completely in the wrong, regardless of what the court decides. The court does not decide right or wrong / ethical or not, it only decides whether it is legal or not. Those two are not necessarily the same. Big business is much better protected than consumers or small businesses, unlike...

the video is 2 months old, so not based on any new data