I have my reservations about any "inhouse" games. I mean all they had to do was dark alliance 3. Instead we got a very ugly and poorly developed dark alliance with drizzle and friends.
I'm glad to see a couple psi subclasses put in core. Did the fireside chat quell some of the hate? Are they ever gonna give us a taste of the updated monsters?
I would ask what the base class gets before I look at the subclasses. How much healing should base class get? Some people like to suggest using hitdice as a pool, but I don't like that. I'm looking at shouts and warcrys. I would also like to see int vs cha at 1st lvl.
I for one would love a plethora of dnd video games, if they are good. I'm not even talking bg3 level good. But after they ruined the dark alliance game, I have my doubts that we will get another good game anytime soon.
So I owned the og book and the 1st edition heros book or whatever it was called back when I was a pup. My brother ran one session and it wasn't great. You have a random character rolling system and I ended up rolling a Thor type dude. Axe that shoots fireballs, magic armor and flight. So we in...
I think the "it's still 5e" had to come from wizards marketing. It will be compatible in that you will be able to steal pieces you like from 5.5ed. I think in the end if you run 2 different fighters, one using 5e and one using 5.5, one of those players is going to be falling behind
I think dnd will be fine as long as the new books are not total trash. If I like them I'll probably buy a bundle of the three books and an extra phb. And I'm kinda guessing I will at this point. The real thing I want to see is what they changed with monsters
I used to own a bunch of FR booklets(?) from 1st edition that filled in info that the box set missed. Honestly they kinda nuked the realm needlessly three times. I personally think the time skip wasn't bad, R A just wasn't done having drizzle beat a dead horse. 3rd edition ravenloft was the best...
Hasbro ain't gonna shut down anything wotc is doing by choice wotc is not losing money, hasbro is. Where they messed up with their stock holders is not understanding the the pandemic boom had a peak and ofcourse they failed their predictions for their stock holders.
I think all this talk wotcs demise is a little premature. Are they in a patch of rough water sure. But people still seem to be interested in the new books and hopefully the hasbro execs won't mess things up again. Yeah...