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You're misinterpreting the claim here. No geneticist would ever assert that offspring are born with ONLY the traits of one parent with zero genetic influence from the other parent, which is how the DnD playtest mechanics worked. I still think the playtest mechanics were a great compromise...

Ok yeah then that doesn't sound much different than what I'm used to seeing. Gold just doesn't really matter anymore, for all the reasons you described above. In my experience, DMs still hand out gold occasionally but it's pretty rare. Treasure awards are almost entirely magic items and...

What does "off the treasure treadmill" mean? I'm envisioning you mean there is no money, no purchases, no magic items - just focus on adventuring for the sake of the story with base equipment? I'm sure that would still work pretty well but I'd definitely miss having magic items.

It absolutely is. But this piggy looks better with lipstick than without!

"Rejected" as in players rated it poorly or as in WotC decided it was easier to just avoid taking any stance on the matter and let DMs figure it out on their own? I've always figured it was the latter but I have no evidence on that obviously I use the playtest half-species mechanics and so far...

Milestones are generally always unknown to the players (I suppose some DMs may outright tell the players but I've never heard of anyone doing this). Personally I wouldn't call the milestones DM fiat since they're known ahead of time by the DM but just aren't known by the players. At some...

As a couple examples from Sly Flourish's webpage: 2018 poll of 2444 respondents found 56% use Milestone vs 26% use XP (and 18% other) 2020 poll of 6009 respondents found 66% prefer Milestone vs 21% prefer XP (and 13% other) 2022 poll of 6008 respondents found 83% use Milestones defined by the...

I'd assume they mean that most people don't use XP anymore, as indicated by the aggregate opinions across DnD forum threads and Youtube videos on the internet, not necessarily that it was proven by this particular poll. Milestone leveling is definitely much more common than XP leveling...

In my experience it's ~4-6 sessions per level, with Level 1 always skipped or maybe played as a tutorial during Session Zero. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower though, depends when the players hit the story milestones

I wouldn't want to commit to a full-length campaign that is highly restrictive on what character concepts are allowed, but for a one shot or short campaign, yeah that sounds super fun

So, what was the explanation for why Elon Musk "needs DnD to be racist"? Those excerpts don't seem to have anything to do with the premise I highly doubt that Elon Musk needs DnD to be anything whatsoever, I'm pretty sure he's doing just fine no matter what DnD does

Not "things" plural, just Elven Accuracy. That is the single most overpowered Feat in the game while the rest of the Racial Feats are all completely useless

All of that was totally fine, and I think the correct move. Where they flubbed was not playtesting the tweaks and getting feedback that this version of Banneret has a great theme going but is just way too weak to ever be useful. Taking what already existed and tweaking a few things was the...

Eyeballing the data it seems like for recent releases (so 5.5e and tail end of 5e) you tend to sell way more of the Exclusive / Alternate covers, while for the earlier 5e releases it doesn't seem to follow this trend as much I'm wondering if that indicates DnD Beyond direct orders starting to...

I get what you mean here and I agree that 5e is much more "video-gamey" than previous editions. You can clearly see the influence of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft in the way modern DnD is played. It's also still totally a TTRPG and so on the surface level it's absolutely nothing like a video...

You had a great description of why so many people love 5th edition, except from your perspective the key attractions were phrased as being downsides. Characters gain power quickly rather than being stuck as boring nobodies. Action economy isn't particularly great but it's a decent balance...

I find it rather amazing that this isn't the default attitude. For all that people complain about DnD rules needing to be revised, the instant WotC changes or adds anything to the rules, the prevailing consensus amongst the fanbase tends to leap towards wanting to ban all new content rather...

I've seen a couple third party content creators publish "Mythic" monsters that worked this way and looked really well designed, but I never bought those PDFs and can't seem to remember for the life of me what they were called

This honestly is a great idea and I'm going to remember to use this some time when we know enemies are nearby and need to set up a diversion

As others have already noted, the spell is specifically written such that this is not true. You get 5 options for what the spell does, and the PHB defines exactly what they do. There is zero interpretation involved from the target. If the PHB was worded such that the target has to interpret...