WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

[BookTenTiger]

A perspective that a majority of the votes indicates Hasbro/Wizards influences the voters view of D&D, sure, the opposite of what you said.

Everyone interprets results through their own bias.

What if we didn't say anyone is wrong for their views, and instead understand that different people approach the hobby differently?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What if we didn't say anyone is wrong for their views, and instead understand that different people approach the hobby differently?

I think that sort of thing gets you kicked off the internet.

 

[Blue]

I don't know how to answer this. Basically, is the choice to keep 5e "evergreen" and not turn the crank to a new edition inherent into D&D, or is it because of Wizards/Hasbro.

Not that Wizards/Hasbro would be a 1, all of their shenanigans would be at least a 2. But I have a big beef right now, and I'm not buying the new edition, and I can't answer your poll without knowing where to lay that beef.

So, is the choice that there will be no new edition of D&D for years from this point Wizards/Hasbro's fault? Then a 5 in hot pink flashing bold.

Otherwise, a 2.

 

[Scribe]

What if we didn't say anyone is wrong for their views, and instead understand that different people approach the hobby differently?

Thats a given. People can have and obviously do have different views.

2 > 1 however, and 43% (as of this second) is anything but a 'majority'.

 

[TheSword]

A perspective that a majority of the votes indicates Hasbro/Wizards influences the voters view of D&D, sure, the opposite of what you said.

Everyone interprets results through their own bias.

Lol, clearly.

 

[TheSword]

I don't know how to answer this. Basically, is the choice to keep 5e "evergreen" and not turn the crank to a new edition inherent into D&D, or is it because of Wizards/Hasbro.

Not that Wizards/Hasbro would be a 1, all of their shenanigans would be at least a 2. But I have a big beef right now, and I'm not buying the new edition, and I can't answer your poll without knowing where to lay that beef.

So, is the choice that there will be no new edition of D&D for years from this point Wizards/Hasbro's fault? Then a 5 in hot pink flashing bold.

Otherwise, a 2.

If there's one thing I take from the 2024 book is that there are a LOT of changes. Clearly not evergreen. Maybe the chasis is evergreen but the fittings and fixtures and even some of the more controversial parts are definitely upgraded.

Regardless of what its called.

 

[KYRON45]

Some will identify with the company or disassociate from it to different degrees. For some it is just a job. For some they take pride in the good the company does and feel bad about being associated with the bad. Some will identify more with the good and disassociate from the bad and some vice versa.

When people condemn WotC's poor treatment of its employees though I think some of the employees might not primarily identify as the company but as the subject of sympathy.

I'm not qualified to assume who identifies in which way. I know that I don't want the sympathy (which could easily read as pity) of the customers that my company serves.
I don't take any of this as serious as my little diatribe might suggest.
I buy a book, I read a book. That is my relationship with any publisher.
If that book were about something...deeper...then i might care about the background or operations of the company.
Were talking about a game. The content of which doesn't preset me with any ethical conundrums. Roll high good, roll low bad. You can't even win so the ethics of the outcome aren't even in question.

I am by no means suggesting that my outlook is superior to anyone else's (even though my language might suggest that). Like the game itself the conversations are what we make them. The OP said themselves that the poll was designed to spark conversation. It could have been as simple as 0: i just like spending money on things i don't really need or 5: this companies behavior will cause the downfall of civilization. So like everyone else....I'm just here to see what there is to see and do a little mindless rambling.

 

[Blue]

If there's one thing I take from the 2024 book is that there are a LOT of changes. Clearly not evergreen. Maybe the chasis is evergreen but the fittings and fixtures and even some of the more controversial parts are definitely upgraded.

Regardless of what its called.

Maybe evergreen was the wrong word choice, but it was their word.

Basically, they made no fundamental, low-level changes to the game, and that's where the issue I have are. High level play. Number of encounters per day needed for class balance. Things like that.

They could. If they across the board halved the number of spell slots, and for some classes daily uses, they would be a lot closer on one of them.

But they didn't. They couldn't and have the "backward compatibility" as describing in the UA (which is more limited than the normal definition of backward compatibility).

Basically, I'm talking about how long before they start fresh and have a new RPG inspired by D&D that they wish to make the new brand lead, like happened from AD&D -> AD&D 2nd -> D&D 3ed -> 4e -> 5e.

 

[TheSword]

Maybe evergreen was the wrong word choice, but it was their word.

Basically, they made no fundamental, low-level changes to the game, and that's where the issue I have are. High level play. Number of encounters per day needed for class balance. Things like that.

They could. If they across the board halved the number of spell slots, and for some classes daily uses, they would be a lot closer on one of them.

But they didn't. They couldn't and have the "backward compatibility" as describing in the UA (which is more limited than the normal definition of backward compatibility).

Basically, I'm talking about how long before they start fresh and have a new RPG inspired by D&D that they wish to make the new brand lead, like happened from AD&D -> AD&D 2nd -> D&D 3ed -> 4e -> 5e.

Would you start fresh? If you had millions of dollars invested, you had thousands of employees relying on you and the current edition was exponentially more popular than any edition before? Would you throw it out for the sake of change.

I think reducing spells slots and uses per day would have been wildly unpopular. There is no saying that the wholesale change you want is what you would get.

For most of us, the devil you know is better. But there are still a hundred tiny detail changes - tweaks if you like - that overall add up to quite a few differences.

Nobody has knocked a wall through, but I feel like the whole house has been repainted.

 

[Voadam]

Basically, I'm talking about how long before they start fresh and have a new RPG inspired by D&D that they wish to make the new brand lead, like happened from AD&D -> AD&D 2nd

I don't know, 1e - 2e and 3e to 3.5 and 4e to essentials all seem backwards compatible a lot like 5e to 5e 2024.