Wow - that took quite a bit of time!
WotC Wants You To Help Shape D&D
Wow - that took quite a bit of time!
dave2008
Legend
No.
jmucchiello
Hero
Please don't talk to me like i'm an idiot. I did answer 1 for these questions because there was no other choice. Then, after I finished the survey, I came here toe kvetch about the lack of choices. Here in a place where we are not limited to radio buttons choices of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. I did not to have someone tell "the right way to answer the question." I'm not a child.
Rya.Reisender
Explorer
Seems the survey is more directed towards players than DMs. Nothing related to my non-existent PCs is important to me...
I heard about D&D from video games when I was a child... probably around 1988. But wasn't interested much in it because the video games were too hard for me. Years later I got interesting Pen&Paper but all the rulesets seemed too difficult to learn, so I just make up some simple rules myself. In 2015 I then watched the LPers I always watch play Pen&Paper and got motivated to try it again. I heard that there is now a 4th and a 5th edition of D&D which I never heard of before. Then I informed myself and learned that 5e is actually much easier to learn than the other editions and you can even get the basic rules for free. I downloaded the free basic rules... and ever since I'm a fan.
So it's basically 27 years from when I first heard about it to when I first played it.
Funny that the highest you can choose is "a few months later".
I heard about D&D from video games when I was a child... probably around 1988. But wasn't interested much in it because the video games were too hard for me. Years later I got interesting Pen&Paper but all the rulesets seemed too difficult to learn, so I just make up some simple rules myself. In 2015 I then watched the LPers I always watch play Pen&Paper and got motivated to try it again. I heard that there is now a 4th and a 5th edition of D&D which I never heard of before. Then I informed myself and learned that 5e is actually much easier to learn than the other editions and you can even get the basic rules for free. I downloaded the free basic rules... and ever since I'm a fan.
So it's basically 27 years from when I first heard about it to when I first played it.
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ad_hoc
(they/them)
Not understanding surveys is not the same as being an idiot or a child.
No one can be an expert in all fields.
jmucchiello
Hero
Assuming someone doesn't understand a freaking survey is insulting. You don't need to be an expert to understand "how interested are you in x?"
ad_hoc
(they/them)
This is insulting to people whose profession is data gathering like this.
You are demonstrating your lack of knowledge and understanding. That isn't an insult. All people don't have knowledge of most things.
pickin_grinnin
Explorer
I did the whole survey and answered all the questions honestly. One thing that really stood out is that I'm obviously NOT the audience they are going for. It is pretty obvious that they are trying to figure out how to expand the brand more, beyond the ttrpg books, and I was never interested in that, even back in the late 70s.
The repetitive questions are common in surveys, but they made it too obvious they were doing it by grouping them too closely together.
Some of the questions about why and how you like to play were a bit odd. I'm not sure what they were trying to get out of them.
The repetitive questions are common in surveys, but they made it too obvious they were doing it by grouping them too closely together.
Some of the questions about why and how you like to play were a bit odd. I'm not sure what they were trying to get out of them.
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Rya.Reisender
Explorer
Yeah I pretty much put "Not interested" everywhere too. Then selected "other" and mentioned that one thing I'd actually buy would be the rule books in PDF version so I can word search through them.
Salamandyr
Adventurer
If these survey questions are any indication, WOTC really hates my money.
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