Why is Beucephalus the Nightmare the way it is?

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Had a TPK, any ideas how to introduce a whole new party to an existing campaign?

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Behind the scenes #PAXWest #AcqInc !

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Tortles as a playable race, confirmed!

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HEROEs!
Time ago there was a funny discussion here about tortles in D&D. Chris Perkins and D&D Team have created tortles as a playable race plus adventure location and few monsters for the ExtraLife event in November 4 ! Here the article from Master Bart Carroll

THE TORTLE PACKAGE

As a further bonus, this year we’re working feverishly to create a special downloadable at the Dungeon Masters Guild. Chris Perkins and the rest of the D&D team have specially created tortles as a playable race that will be made available in the coming days, with all proceeds directing benefiting Extra Life/Children’s Hospitals. (If you are unfamiliar with tortles, they are a race of anthropomorphic turtles that have appeared in previous editions of the game.) This material will also include an adventure location and a few added monsters as well!

It seems like Pathfinder development is much more transparent than D&D

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It seems like Pathfinder development is much more transparent than D&D. They have active Facebook and web blogs. They frequently visit their forums. Further, major releases all have a beta period, they release PDFs of all their sourcebooks and they have open submissions for writers. In contrast D&D doesn’t seem to have a face or much of a community liaison. I believe the last Reddit AMA was a year ago. What structure is in place that causes D&D to be so opaque and mired in paper publishing?
Bonus points for mentioning licensing character creation software rights to HeroLab.I don’t agree with your premise – we opened up the development of our core system to an audience that is larger than the audience playing any other RPG on the market.
We have over 600,000 followers on our Facebook page and post there regularly.
The core team is active on Twitter and answers rules questions.
Honestly, I think the better question is why do people think we’re opaque after we spent two years conducting an incredibly open test driven by rigorously collected and analyzed data? I’m really not sure what else we can do.
IMO, a big drawback we face is that when we say we’ll do something, people hold us to it. D&D is an order of magnitude larger than any other tabletop RPG. If we say we’re going to do X and then don’t deliver, we catch far more grief than any other publisher.Comment from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, Co-Designer of D&D 5, Head of D&D R&D.