D&D General The Double-Edged Sword: Is The New D&D Edition a Cash Grab in Disguise?

[Warpiglet-7]

But they do because newcomers naturally gravitate towards the latest edition, leaving veterans forced to adopt the rules if they want to play with them.

By this definition, you are messing people over any time you sell a new game.

To that end, my paying 40 bucks to play with a particular group for a decade is not a big deal.

People need to band together as little groups. Me and my pals laughed out loud when 3.5 was put out “no thanks.” Freedom.

 

[CleverNickName]

Eventually everyone is strong-armed into buying a new core rulebook, monster manual, and setting guide just to continue to play with new player and adopters as the community as a whole shifts.

I don't understand this problem. I'm still playing the old BECM game, with my old buddies from high school, over Roll20 (we live across three timezones now). We reconnected overr the pandemic and we've been logging in for games ever since, along with Bob's 14-year old daughter and John's 13-year old son.

Nobody was forced to buy anything...our old books still work just fine.

So my advice to anyone who doesn't like the newer editions of D&D: get your old books out and start sending emails. You won't be able to turn the clock back 30 years, but you'll find a group.

 

[velkymx]

This is untrue and ignorant. CDs offered a very significant advance in audio fidelity over cassettes.

Ask any audio file how good CD audio quality is. Lol

 

[mamba]

See, and that's again going to be a problem, that makes your old books will be completely obsoleted as the rules would no longer apply to them. Why not keep both SRDs?

the old SRD does not suddenly disappear, so I am not sure what your point is

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Just wait until you have to "rent" the books from WotC and never own it.

I won’t wait to say no to that. I won’t rent anything. Solved

 

[mamba]

There has been a steady stream of updates. There's been something like 48 books released in that time frame.

adventures are not rules updates…

 

[payn]

Ask any audio file how good CD audio quality is. Lol

Any audiophile worth their salt will tell you that despite the quality of CDs sound, its superior to cassette tapes.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well, they seem to have started work on the new Core books after Tasha's, albeit while working on other projects, but still thwt will be nigh 4 years of work: rushed it was not, this time around, a d rushing out something with minimal thought and care is what I would define as central to "cash grab".

It's not thas I believe that this is "less than a .5 edition," so much as I don't believe ".5 editions" actually exist. Does the book have a new ISBN? Then it is a new edition. Simple as that. So by the nor.al use of words, this is obviously a new edition in my book, same as the 1995 black vooks for 2E and 3.5 were new new editio s. But it is not a "new D&D ruleset that invalidates prior rulesets" which is what the D&D community has come to mean by edition, the ".5" moniker is just a painful kludge.

I suspect the main issue is that 5E's designer have a somewhat idiosyncratic view of what the major issues with 5E are, based on what they presented to us and how much was rejected out of hand, which doesn't give the impression that they're rushing it (whereas 4E and 5E they basically stated outright that they did), but certainly doesn't gove the impression of focused work.

I rather hope I'll be blown away by the actual product though, so of course reserve judgement.

Interesting that they seem to have dropped the idea of MM or DMG public playtests despite surprising us by saying they were doing them fairly recently. Perhaps they are still to come through?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Any audiophile worth their salt will tell you that despite the quality of CDs sound, its superior to cassette tapes.

With audiophiles let's be real there is at least 40% chance any given one is a gold-plated wall plug type lunatic so I'm sure some of them swear on tapes over CDs.

 

[mamba]

Ask any audio file how good CD audio quality is. Lol

do you mean audiophile? It is good enough for all humans, bats might be able to notice differences, but we never asked them…

The issue is not the format, if there is one then it is the mastering

I am sure you can find some that tell you how vinyl is better, just like you can find people that tell you the Earth is flat…