D&D 5E Am I no longer WoTC's target audience?

[BrokenTwin]

Main point is you have non magical healing full stop.

Original DS 1d3 points per day. 3 was with a skilled healer and bed rest.

DS was designed to be gritty and maybe fatal. It's why you had character trees.

So yeah the brutality is kinda key to the setting.

Oh, I'm not pretending that 4E as a whole was conducive to Dark Sun's grittiness. It (along with 5E and arguably 3.x) was a system designed to play Heroic Adventures, and they all require a certain amount of mangling to play anything else. I'm just annoyed at how many people I see misunderstand the purpose of the Healing Surge mechanic, which wasn't to be a source of free healing (it was the various class abilities that did that), but to be a hard limit on the total amount of healing your character could handle in a certain span of time. Even magical healing flat out didn't work if your healing surges were out, which to me is way grittier than other editions' "if you've still got magic, you're fine" attitude.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

There were two UA articles about modern setting. If WotC wants modern/sci-fi settin within D&D OK for me, but it is a challenge about balance of power with different playable factions and theses with different level of magic and tech. Firearms are as the cheaper version of expensive magic item you are saving until the final fight agaisnt the supreme dungeon boss monster.

I dare to say Ravenloft will be before Dark Sun. And the first books will neither the player handbook nor the tourist guide of the region but the modules of the grand conjuction and maybe also the module of the house of the gryphon hill.

* I wonder about DM Guild allowing to seel DS tiles neither fluff nor crunch, but only sketchs and concept art, not only for DS but also Mystara Hollow Earth and Jakandor.

 

[jasper]

5E Modern would be keen.

oh oh oh Mr. Kotter um Reynard can I be a 10th level Cobol programmer with one level of Army cook?

 

[Oofta]

oh oh oh Mr. Kotter um Reynard can I be a 10th level Cobol programmer with one level of Army cook?

COBOL? Talk about ancient psuedo medieval technology.

 

[oriaxx77]

It is like the last Star Wars movies. Old timers can die. The new generation needs different heroes. But you can still watch the old movies. Frozen in time.

 

[Zardnaar]

It is like the last Star Wars movies. Old timers can die. The new generation needs different heroes. But you can still watch the old movies. Frozen in time.

Old timers have the money and it's to early to see the retention rate for D&D. Eventually the buzz will wear off or some new fad will turn up.

 

[oriaxx77]

Old timers have the money and it's to early to see the retention rate for D&D. Eventually the buzz will wear off or some new dad will turn.

Let's hope the best!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Old timers have the money and it's to early to see the retention rate for D&D. Eventually the buzz will wear off or some new fad will turn up.

Old Timers die.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Old timers have the money and it's to early to see the retention rate for D&D. Eventually the buzz will wear off or some new fad will turn up.

The buzz wears off for old timers too. They move on, get different hobbies, complain it wasn't "the same as it was."

I remember walking out of the Force Awakens, and a middle-aged man was there. He told me that he was hoping he'd get the same reaction to watching it that he got when watching the first Star Wars as a kid. He told me he didn't get it.

The sad thing was that it probably didn't matter how good/nostalgic the movie actually was. That guy is never going to have the same reaction to a Star Wars movie that is the same as when he was a kid (neither am I sadly).

Same for D&D. Some people just drift away, and you need to replace those people.

 

[ad_hoc]

Same for D&D. Some people just drift away, and you need to replace those people.

You're right in general but for me 5e is the best edition I've played. By far. It rekindled my love of the game. My memory is hazy but I feel like I'm more enthusiastic about it now than I was as a 12 year old.