D&D General Is DnD being mothballed?

[Charlaquin]

Not sure when the poll was. He repeated it in 2022.

Huh. Wild. I guess maybe because of the Commanderification of magic?

 

[Cadence]

Huh. Wild. I guess maybe because of the Commanderification of magic?

I think his claim has always been that most MtG players are just random folks playing at home.

 

[Scribe]

What year was that?

This is what I found with google, but my google skills are trash.

https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/698554485033893888/when-you-say-75-players-dont-know-what-a

 

[Charlaquin]

This is what I found with google, but my google skills are trash.

https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/698554485033893888/when-you-say-75-players-dont-know-what-a

Oh, ok. So the “average magic player” he’s referring to is someone who has a pile cards in a drawer somewhere that they got for Christmas six years ago or something, not what I think of when I hear “magic player.” Yeah, that makes sense.

 

[Scribe]

Oh, ok. So the “average magic player” he’s referring to is someone who has a pile cards in a drawer somewhere that they got on a lark or as a Christmas present or something, not what I think of when I hear “magic player.” Yeah, that makes sense.

I mean maybe. Back when I was hopelessly into the game, I believe he had said that the focus groups are when they bring in people who identify as players of Magic.

Now, is that the same kind of 'Magic Player' as me or anyone of the rest of the terminally online who absorbed and decried every word he posted for years on end?

Well clearly not, but its 'people who play Magic' and based on their polling and definitions, its 'a majority'.

The MtG side of the house, I used to trust had this kind of stuff pretty dialed in. They were making bank long before D&D got itself sorted, and between Maro and Forsythe (are either still around?) I felt they really know what they were doing.

Until F.I.R.E, and this, which was when I knew they had lost the battle with Hasbro for the soul of the game.

 

[Cadence]

Oh, ok. So the “average magic player” he’s referring to is someone who has a pile cards in a drawer somewhere that they got for Christmas six years ago or something, not what I think of when I hear “magic player.” Yeah, that makes sense.

In another post it sounds like a question they ask to define the group is "Do you play magic?"


Would most people with cards stuck in a drawer for six years say they play magic? (I wonder what questions they have for teasing that out). Another said fewer than 10% had ever played in a tournament (including pre release).

 

[LordEntrails]

More corporations assuming their customers are idiots.

Most customers are idiots.

 

[Charlaquin]

In another post it sounds like a question they ask to define the group is "Do you play magic?"


Would most people with cards stuck in a drawer for six years say they play magic? (I wonder what questions they have for teasing that out). Another said fewer than 10% had ever played in a tournament (including pre release).

I was being a bit hyperbolic. What I mean to say is, he’s talking about people who play magic, not, like, magic hobbyists, which is who my mind initially went to.

 

[Maxperson]

"D&D books are coming out too slowly" was 2015's conversation; I've no idea why it's suddenly an issue yet again today and I don't think a professional publisher like Matt Colville would suddenly come to this opinion 10 years after everybody else. Can we go back to "are hit points meat?" or something?

I see threads every few months here where the release rate is talked about. It's usually not the topic, but conversation often turns that way.

 

[Scribe]

I see threads every few months here where the release rate is talked about. It's usually not the topic, but conversation often turns that way.

"You see if they just would release more content, I could get Dark Sun, and a Conan adventure, and a mature setting, and a Warlord, and a pony."