doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I think for me, part of why I don’t feel 5e has peaked is that the books that annoy some of y’all are bringing 5e closer to what it might have been if they hadn’t had to steer clear of obvious 4e influence, or “progressive” lore.
Like the orc thing in Volos. That wouldn’t have happened in a 5e that carried on from 4e. All this progress lately is just…catching back up to 2010.
So, D&D moving away from a direction I never wanted it to go doesn’t exactly bother me.
Combine that with preferring cursory lore, or lore that is part of player options and monsters and such rather than long-winded exposition text, and generally seeing the game as more balanced and more fun now than it was in 2014, and yeah, 5e might be peaking right now, depending on how 1DnD goes, but it certainly hasn’t yet.
Like the orc thing in Volos. That wouldn’t have happened in a 5e that carried on from 4e. All this progress lately is just…catching back up to 2010.
So, D&D moving away from a direction I never wanted it to go doesn’t exactly bother me.
Combine that with preferring cursory lore, or lore that is part of player options and monsters and such rather than long-winded exposition text, and generally seeing the game as more balanced and more fun now than it was in 2014, and yeah, 5e might be peaking right now, depending on how 1DnD goes, but it certainly hasn’t yet.