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Clearly they did, but it is also not just them being a complete outlier, I have looked at dozens of kickstarters per year, and 3 years or so ago x 2.5 the first two days was a good approximation of the end result. This factor has been gradually decreasing and is now basically x 2 to x 2.1. This...

They definitely mimic the TSR style, whether that is a good thing is another matter. One could argue that it is intentionally ignoring 40 or so years of progress in usability

yeah, the Kobolds also had (/have ?) that issue, probably esp. in the long adventures rather than their adventure collections. Good thing they only have two long ones :D

it is only somewhat ahead of a trend that has been going on for years. As I said, I now use 2x the first two days, this one did 55% in them, so not too far off in relative terms.

I have no problem with it being on a per case basis, but at a minimum I see it as a universal approach, not one subclass for defilers, one for preservers, and all the others do whatever they also do in FR and Eberron

So, Critical Role on Amazon?

The flow may be better, but finding the thing you need in the moment while running the game, not so much.. That is the advantage Ben saw in the OSE approach, that it presents the information in a way that is easy to look up rather than as a novel with interspersed stat blocks I agree that...

neither am I My understanding is you either preserve or you defile, there is no third choice, and that is true for all casters, so not just one subclass each. If the new DS breaks with this and has one subclass for each, then to me it is a failure just for that

the trend of ever stronger frontloading has been going on for a while, I started at 2.5 times the first two days and am now at 2 times the first two days, ands this one still was more frontloaded than that

I certainly see a benefit in having some kind of visual divider over everything just flowing together in one long text. The monsters do not really stand out much either, which was one of Ben's complaints, along with having the same stat block four times on about as many consecutive pages. He...

correct, that still makes the UA one a failure

Ben used Winter’s Daughter as an example https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/270795/winter-s-daughter

one is the GM, the other a player. It makes perfect sense that they have different interests / goals sounds like you should have no trouble getting that from @Remathilis approach

yeah, it’s time that WotC announces their 2026 D&D lineup, we clearly have a lack of topics to discuss ;)

it’s one thing to take their word at face value, but if the ‘accused party’ stays silent rather than rebuts things, it is starting to become more than just one guy’s claim

not sure how it was presented there, did not take much of a look. What stuck with me is that preserver / defiler should not be subclasses and that the preserver was not actually preserving anything. Doing literally anything else to help the planet would be time better spent than what the...

yeah, Vader, the Emperor, and the other Sith all were paragons of virtue and looking out for the greater good… I think the comparison is accurate, I just do not arrive at the same destination.

automatic upcast maybe

he doesn’t like their ‘walls of text’ approach to adventures and wishes they were more like the OSE (Necrotic Gnome) ones. According to some polls he must have done only 50% of people that buy GG adventures do so to play them, the others just to read them, while for OSE that ratio is 70% play...