D&D (2024) Are you going to buy the new 2024 D&D Core Books

[Azzy]

Firm maybe. I have mixed opinions on the playtest so far, so it really depends on the final product. I'm not partial to most reviews because most reviewers seem to have, erm, "opinions" that I don't share. Of course, if I can get them cheap, I may just press "go" anyway.

 

[Azzy]

How do you feel about pineapple in tacos?

Pinapples are an abomination in the sight of the Lord and should never be put on anything.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'll wait to see what shocking swerve diverges from the playtest material this time.

Exactly.

I don't believe what we're seeing in the playtest is going to be particularly close to what WotC actually puts out, based on DND Next, where they just changed a wild number of things in wild ways, and most of them, now, after nearly a decade of play, we can say those changes both dumb and bad for the most part.

I suspect the monsters will be significantly better and more 4E-like (love it or loathe it) than most people are expecting. The MM will probably be just excellent, based on recent monsters.

But I expect the PHB and DMG to have bunch of stuff that takes a little while to dig out, but that's just absolutely nuts and changed for no good reason at all, and where the change seems bad/dumb.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Firm maybe. I have mixed opinions on the playtest so far, so it really depends on the final product. I'm not partial to most reviews because most reviewers seem to have, erm, "opinions" that I don't share. Of course, if I can get them cheap, I may just press "go" anyway.

Yeah, I dislike reviewers being lumped in on the "maybe" vote, because 80% of D&D "reviewers" are, frankly, going to give every D&D product a good review, at minimum, if not a glowing one. Like the absolute meanest thing 80% of D&D "reviewers" are going to say is "Well this product is good but not for everyone". Car crashes like Spelljammer got that kind of review.

There's another 20% who might be better but they're mostly either axe-grinders on a specific issue, and their entire review will actually be based on that issue (yes D&D does have the equivalent of "single issue voters"), or they're blatherers who just won't reach any kind of real conclusion, or they're exaggerators who are sometimes truth-tellers, but often just wildly hyperbolic about the rules (yes I'm looking at you, Youtuber with a hat and beard!).

What D&D is missing is anyone like, will give us a cold, level-headed assessment of the changes, by uncoloured fannish-ness, axe-grinding, hyperbole, and so on. I'm not saying I could either btw. I am not your man for this. I will get to wrapped up in some dumb element I find impossibly funny because I'm an idiot.

 

[John R Davis]

Pineapple by itself is awesome and tasty.
I won't be buying the new books.
Too many other things on the shelf of shame to occupy me and own stuff to create.

 

[Mistwell]

I voted for maybe, but the relevant factor for me is not so much reviews, but what else we see in the playtest. There’s still three packets to go on the PHB, and an unknown number to go on the other two core books. I think anyone making up their mind about it now is jumping the gun.

I've bought every edition of D&D since B/X and 1e AD&D. I know I am, in the very least, going to read it and very likely my group will play it and use DND Beyond for it. I don't think I am jumping the gun.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What D&D is missing is anyone like, will give us a cold, level-headed assessment of the changes, by uncoloured fannish-ness, axe-grinding, hyperbole, and so on. I'm not saying I could either btw. I am not your man for this. I will get to wrapped up in some dumb element I find impossibly funny because I'm an idiot.

The RPG space is desperately missing serious, professional journalism. We get occasional bright spots, but they're pretty brief.

 

[FrogReaver]

if the classes are a substantial improvement in my view, then i'll get the phb for them. Probably won't get the DMG. The MM is very up in the air and mostly depends on if the D&D 24 characters are stronger than the current and/or if the monsters become more interesting.

Honestly any rules changes outside the classes/feats/equipment that are changed are of little importance - as I've mostly ironed out how i like to run and play 5e. It's a small pro if rules changes align to what i'm currently doing or if somehow their new proposed way is a great idea (unlikely on both).

 

[Incenjucar]

So far they don't look much better than 2014, and I skipped that whole edition. Will be picking up the PS books because <3 Tony <3 but otherwise my only interest now is making 5E-compatible stuff that WotC would never make and then finding another game to invest in.

 

[Parmandur]

The RPG space is desperately missing serious, professional journalism. We get occasional bright spots, but they're pretty brief.

Journalism as a whole is running perilously short of serious, professional journalism. The historical window where that was commercially viable may have closed, unfortunately.