As Matt Forbeck pointed out on Twitter, WotC has owned D&D for 24 years since it purchased TSR in 1997. TSR created D&D in 1974, 23 years before WotC bought it.
I'm not really fussed by them being spell casters - I like some of the thematic spells they have in 5e, in fact. But I will agree that it's rare that an edition of D&D after 1e got the ranger right on the first try. 2e didn't. 3.0 didn't. I don't think 5e is quite right. Pathfinder 1e and 4e come closest to not needing obvious revisions right off the bat. I'm still evaluating PF2e.I have never been satisfied with rangers in post-1E version - but after 2E was even worse because I don't like them becoming a spellcasting class so early.
STOP BEING YOUNGI have no memory of the Soviet Union even existing, though there was some overlap.
Modern Hasbro execs seem to think in terms of IP - they know that toys sell better with a story attached, and the big money is in movies/tv. A generic rpg not tied to a specific setting/IP would be a really tough sell to them.Do you think Hasbro will force WotC to combine all these different aspects into a new, ultimate version of D20 Modern? I wonder what you think about that sort of possibility, I haven't seen it discussed.
Given how bleak the D&D business situation was in 1996-1997, my then early 20s self would be relieved and surprised to see how popular and visible D&D is today. Back then I thought D&D had become an anachronism (of the 20th century) whose glory days were past. It was going to fade away.
Kind of puts to rest grognards complaining about the TSR days as WOTC has produced 3 editions that outsold AD&D 2e and maintained the profitability of D&D the whole time span (in spite of some edition warring)/
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I'm rapidly approaching more 5e than the B/A/2 history I had in basically that same era (my memories of starting are imprecise).I started playing AD&D 2nd edition in 1989 but pretty much stopped by around 1996. I've been playing 5th edition for just about as long as I played 2nd edition and it's likely I'll surpass it after this year.
I would like a D20 modern or a D20 Urban ArcanaDo you think Hasbro will force WotC to combine all these different aspects into a new, ultimate version of D20 Modern? I wonder what you think about that sort of possibility, I haven't seen it discussed.
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Two of those Hasbro licensed to Renegade Games. They're working on Transformers RPG using a 5e framework and GI Joe (which is essentially super&modern mashup).There are no know plans for a sci-fi, a post-apocalyptic or a modern version of 5e. I has been said Hasbro/WoTC doesn't want to slipt the consumer base into spin off 5e games.
Yeah, video games that seemed unfathomably ancient in, say, 1990, like Pong (1972) are less old than games I remember as "modern" now (like Hostile Waters: Anataeus Rising (2001)). Similar things happened with late '80s movies that I saw in the early 1990s. I mean, hell, Fellowship of the Ring is 2001, so 20 years old. When I was say 13, that would be like a movie from 1971.You reach certain milestones in your life and realize you're getting older.
The first time I heard Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" which appeared on 1987's Appetite for Destruction on a classic rock station was back around 2005. And I realized that in 1987 the oldies station in Dallas, 98.7 K-LUV, often played songs that weren't as old as "Welcome to the Jungle" was in 2005.
The original Star Trek series was cancelled in 1969. I remember celebrating the 25th anniversary of Star Trek in 1992. The 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation was in 2019.
I started playing AD&D 2nd edition in 1989 but pretty much stopped by around 1996. I've been playing 5th edition for just about as long as I played 2nd edition and it's likely I'll surpass it after this year.