Thiiiiiis. Six years into 5E and I’m relatively unimpressed with WotC’s stewardship of the game. I think it needs a revision now, not three years from now. I also think A5E looks like it’s got a ton of improvements over the current game.
You could have licensed the TSR brand...
I’m really excited for LevelUp, but am also very impressed with WotC stewardship of 5e. Rather than WotC completely revise / replace 5e I would much prefer small tweaks that are backwards compatible and compatible with LevelUp. Fortunately for me (not you apparently) that is what it appears they will do. I’ve been impressed with WotC ability to not constantly churn out splat books and supplements and instead leave it to the broader community to expand on the basic game.Thiiiiiis. Six years into 5E and I’m relatively unimpressed with WotC’s stewardship of the game. I think it needs a revision now, not three years from now. I also think A5E looks like it’s got a ton of improvements over the current game.
Plus I really liked WOIN and I’ve been an ENWorlder forever, so ENPublishing has a lot of goodwill from me.
This (is the gist of it).
My problem stems from the fact that we have gotten an average of 2-3 books a year and those books... really dont give you a lot. Most of it is player facing stuff and fluff text. They still have yet to give any sort for the exploration pillar support aside from traps and puzzles. Now, to be fair, its been a moment since I read the DMG, but I really dont remember it giving a lot of actually useful stuff in that area. (If im wrong, I welcome correction.)
Full respect. For me, my frustration is with how little what they print is crunchy, the crunch we do get tends to be broken, and the volume of fluff for 5E seems pretty sloppy with respect to lore (e.g.: Mordenkainen, Acererak, and Vecna are all part of Forgotten Realms now while FR’s own classic NPCs languish, for just a few examples). I’m fine with the release schedule, but the past few years WotC’s products seem to me just like amateurish crunch and fanfic-tier lore…which doesn’t excite me to purchase them.
I’m fine with the number of releases and could honestly use less. We are still just using mostly PHB stuff with a few house rules like we did from the beginning
Pretty much this. There's some cool ideas present in stuff like Ravenloft, but rollable tables does not a TTRPG make. Core Class design that leaves everything interesting about Classes (Except for Spells, of course) to Subclasses, and then Subclasses that try to fix the Class leaving old Subclasses to languish. They haven't even realized the best thing for Monk Subclasses is things that don't use Ki since very little could match Stunning Strike, and the best we have in that direction was Shadow Monk from the PHB. CR still has no mechanical backing which leaves it like everything else, functioning only with experienced DMs or DMs ignoring the rules of the rule system they're running. No real guidance on what Skills should do, leading them to be treated as mundane and easily outshined by Magic. Designers having chosen Fireball and Lightning Bolt were the 'Right' spells for people to take and making them intentionally overpowered despite Monsters ALSO getting the OP versions.
