WotC WotC reported 50% growth over 2020!

[overgeeked]

I am in complete agreement on this.

But it would involve two changes to D&D:

1: No Hit Point Bloat. The game would have to go to a E6 play model at the least. A E3 play model would be better.

I agree. But probably 5th or 6th as the cap. Let the players get neat things like fireball and lightning bolt.

The D&D player base likes their D&D the way they like it.

It's really weird. 5E is the most popular and profitable and it's designed around the idea of fantasy superheroes, but it's incredibly bad at delivering on fantasy superheroes. It's way too restrictive with abilities and magic. A looser system would be a much better job, but then it wouldn't be D&D.

They don't want a new edition, or any kind of 0.x revision. Yes, the current edition has a few issues that could use a fix. But if you fix it; don't change anything! Just make it better than it was before...

That's the curse of being on top. The only direction they can go is down.

 

[Lyxen]

What I can say is that I bought the MtG settings for D&D to get ideas from them (but also, honestly, a bit out of collectorship), but I certainly will never run them.

And I don't think I've ever seen a DM on these forums or others who actually ran a game of D&D in a MtG setting. Should I start a poll ? Do some of you actually run games in those settings ?

 

[TwoSix]

What I can say is that I bought the MtG settings for D&D to get ideas from them (but also, honestly, a bit out of collectorship), but I certainly will never run them.

And I don't think I've ever seen a DM on these forums or others who actually ran a game of D&D in a MtG setting. Should I start a poll ? Do some of you actually run games in those settings ?

<raises hand>
Ran an 18 month campaign in Ravnica. Lots of fun.

 

[darjr]

What I can say is that I bought the MtG settings for D&D to get ideas from them (but also, honestly, a bit out of collectorship), but I certainly will never run them.

And I don't think I've ever seen a DM on these forums or others who actually ran a game of D&D in a MtG setting. Should I start a poll ? Do some of you actually run games in those settings ?

Ran a theros game where the players had an encounter with a blinded cyclops that lived in a swamp surrounded by his cattle. They were cattleblepas gifted to him by Medusa.

 

[bedir than]

That's the curse of being on top. The only direction they can go is down.

Except that it keeps going up as it drifts further away from the zeroes to heroes of the original

 

[Older Beholder]

What I can say is that I bought the MtG settings for D&D to get ideas from them (but also, honestly, a bit out of collectorship), but I certainly will never run them.

And I don't think I've ever seen a DM on these forums or others who actually ran a game of D&D in a MtG setting. Should I start a poll ? Do some of you actually run games in those settings ?

I think the aim with the MtG books was to have something more useful than a setting book, sure they can be used as a settings, but for home brewers they're a toolbox of guilds / gods

I haven't run a game in Ravnica as a setting, but I used the guilds from it all the time in my games.

 

[BookTenTiger]

It always cracks me up how these threads about how well WotC and D&D are doing inevitably get hijacked by a few folks who always foresee doom-and-gloom.

It's like looking out at a sunny day and saying, "If this continues, it will never rain again!" or "It's sunny today, which means it will be rainy and stormy tomorrow."

D&D is doing well. WotC is doing well. Our hobby is thriving, and there are more ways to play than ever before.

I see this reflected in my own experience of playing D&D. I have more access to friends who play and ways to play. I just had a baby, but I don't have to leave my group when it's my night to take care of him because we play online! We might be moving soon, but I know I'll be able to find people who play D&D wherever we go (unless it's Uganda, which is a possibility).

I'm excited to see where D&D goes next. If it doesn't fit my current D&D mood, I know I can be patient and it'll swing back around. 3.5 and 4e didn't fit my D&D mood, and 5e does. Maybe 5.5 or 6th won't, but I can keep on playing what I like to play.

 

[overgeeked]

Except that it keeps going up as it drifts further away from the zeroes to heroes of the original

Until it doesn’t.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

WotC finally hits the billion dollar mark with time still on the clock (the rest of Autumn and December).

AFR as the best selling Summer product is interesting news given the shear hate it gets from certain quarters. Universes Beyond critics will only hate AFR more given its success is being used to justify Universes Beyond.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

What I can say is that I bought the MtG settings for D&D to get ideas from them (but also, honestly, a bit out of collectorship), but I certainly will never run them.

And I don't think I've ever seen a DM on these forums or others who actually ran a game of D&D in a MtG setting. Should I start a poll ? Do some of you actually run games in those settings ?

I ran a short Ravnica campaign with two of my players, but it didn't last long. They just weren't really interested in the world. I also tried a Theros PbP, but that died down after a few months and after not much action happening (as PbPs tend to be slow).

I imagine that Strixhaven will be a better suit for my table than the other campaign settings. We've actually tried to run a Hogwarts campaign that took place in the 1940s, but that one died after lasting about half a year, though. A D&D setting more suited and designed towards that style of play would probably work better.