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[Cadence]

Eberron and what?

I cannot think of another setting book in 5e that is an actual setting book. SCAG?! I pulled that off the shelf the other day and was blown away by how tiny it is.

Unless you are counting Fizban/Bigby/Guide to Ravenloft?

How do you classify the MtG ones?

 

[Reynard]

Most gamers vastly overestimate their knowledge of and talent for game design and evaluating balance and gameplay.

 

[Micah Sweet]

One third of WotC’s 5e offerings are targeted at you. There is no preclusion at all. There is a lore/setting book on offer every single year. Sometimes more than one.

Please stop pretending they don’t exist. You might not like them, fair enough, but the setting/lore crowd is most certainly not being ignored.

Well, they're certainly putting less creative effort into it than they used to.

 

[Cadence]

Most gamers people vastly overestimate their knowledge of and talent for game design and evaluating balance and gameplay.

FTFY?

(Likely overestimate their humorousness too).

 

[overgeeked]

with a lot of AAA studios it isn't even a lack of game design focus - it's a focus on scummy marketing over the game itself. seriously, the monetization techniques in AAA games nowadays is disgusting.

Yeah. I just finished reading Level Up! a book about video game design. It had an entire chapter on monetization techniques. The author was taking the stance of it’s here, it can be terrible, so let’s try to be as ethical as we can with it. Even with that stance it was still gross.

 

[Reynard]

WotC shouldn't be bothering to playtest elements of the 5E update. Not enough people engage with the playtests for the opinions to represent even a fraction of the player base's preferences, and more importantly the player base doesn't actually care beyond whether it says D&D on the cover. Listening to "fans" will ultimately create a worse product.

ETA: Public playtest I mean. They should probably playtest things they change...

 

[Jd Smith1]

Yeah. I just finished reading Level Up! a book about video game design. It had an entire chapter on monetization techniques. The author was taking the stance of it’s here, it can be terrible, so let’s try to be as ethical as we can with it. Even with that stance it was still gross.

Companies exist to earn a return for their investors.

 

[MGibster]

oh, right, uh...AAA monetization tactics are good, actually. did i do it right?

If you like AAA monetization tactics and you like D&D, I've got some good news for you...

 

[Scribe]

How do you classify the MtG ones?

Crossing of the stream abominations that shouldnt exist.

 

[Thomas Shey]

They should keep making Batman movies but stop making sequels. That is, ever new Batman movie should be a different take on the character with a different cast by a different director. Give me a bronze age Denny O'Neil Batman movie, then a dark 80s take, then a Morrison Batgod film.

If I understand some of the plans, that might be closer to what you're going to see than you think; Gunn has talked about doing a fair number of, essentially, Elsewheres movies.