So they need mechanics to fit a concept? Never been an issue for us. If you have a concept for a character, we just roleplay that concept. Maybe we are different in how we approach character's since we started with 1e (and skipped 3e)? Thank you for the explanation!
Yep. Often if the mechanics don't fit the concept, then the concept or parts of the concept fail in the fiction. For instance if part of the player vision for the PC was growing into one of the best archers the world has ever seen and 3e had no archery feats or classes/subclasses focused on archery, the concept would fail because every Tom, Dick and Harry with the same class and level could pick up a bow and be as good or better than the PC.
Because in 3.x and 4e they learned that they don't sell. They have increasing diminishing returns on each book after an initial spike. The 5e model shows each book continues to sell consistently in volumes to maintain profitability outside of the 1-3 month range. Players options don't sell on their own.
I member when it was 2 a month.
They were saying physical books were done for years in favor of ebooks and now ebooks sales are way down and physical bookstores are on the way up. VTT isn't the future but like pdfs, it is part of the market and here to stay. Catering to it only makes sense but it will not replace a book in hand.It's an idea that made sense back in 2012-14. It looked like D&D had struck out big time, from Hasbro's corporate point of view, and there was a legitimate fear it would be withdrawn, possibly for decades (which, for some of us, would be, like, the rest of our lives), that 5e was a last shoestring attempt to keep it on the shelves.
Then boom, 80s come-back, D&D flies off the shelves, boom, pandemic, VTTs finally take off - sky's the limit.
It's only in context of the idea that, maybe, print books will be falling by the wayside in favor of a subscription VTT model, now that VTTs actually work and have acceptance, that it makes any sense at all, today.
I remember when it was more than 6 a month.
When fid they go bankrupt....?
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TSR started mass layoffs in October 1996 and they last shipped D&D products in December 1996. Most probably they were technically bankrupt before then, but they didn't officially close their doors until 1997.
