D&D General Dmg previews up

[mamba]

Unfortunate IMO, as it ultimately makes all the books less useful for experienced players, who still need them but are getting less utility (and thus less bang for their buck) then they did before.

eh, having 5-10 pages of introduction is not going to matter to experienced players, esp since the page count went up too… you are getting more subclasses (and probably more spells) than in the 2014 PHB, it’s not like they cut anything in order to add that intro

 

[mamba]

Too bad. I considered the DMG a must-have since I started playing in 1985.

I bought them, but a must have… more like the least important of the core books to entirely optional

 

[Scribe]

Everything is competing for the same limited resource: money. Whether or not D&D should compete with movies, or books, or anything else is irrelevant. The fact is that it does compete with them.

I'd argue its time, more than anything. An RPG book is next to nothing in regards to entertainment dollars.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I bought them, but a must have… more like the least important of the core books to entirely optional

It was always a good read, at least.

 

[bedir than]

It was always a good read, at least.

insert joke about no one reading the DMG

and then point out that the 2014 DMG is one of the worst RPG books ever while the 1e book was tiny and mostly weird charts that didn't matter

 

[Micah Sweet]

insert joke about no one reading the DMG

and then point out that the 2014 DMG is one of the worst RPG books ever while the 1e book was tiny and mostly weird charts that didn't matter

I'm not joking. I got good use out of and a good read from all of them.

 

[dave2008]

no, it was not asking that at all, read the post…

I did

 

[dave2008]

I'd argue its time, more than anything. An RPG book is next to nothing in regards to entertainment dollars.

True - that was my point really. RPG books are a great value (which was my post that started this tangent)

 

[Guest 7037866]

So, I just watched the entire video and realized, that while I play D&D and love the game, I am by no means a "gamer".

Nothing in the new DMG holds much interest for me, and frankly speaking, the things which might I feel will not be done in a manner to my liking.

I just don't see how people can be this excited about it...

Ok... heading out to mow the lawn now so I can yell at the kids later.

 

[dave2008]

i mean, if you want to look at it that way, then you start needing to factor in how much time you need to invest in something to properly get the intended entertainment value out of it - which, even if you include prep time on the dm's part as part of the intended entertainment value (which some people definitely would), is still INFINITELY higher then almost any other medium just by virtue of having to schedule sessions with other people. having to just wait for the session time to come around. i can boot up a movie or video game whenever i want and just GO.

in short, they're very different mediums. i don't think they're easily comparable, and i think time per dollar is a very reductivist and not very useful metric to look at if it's the only thing you're looking at.

...unless you mean like. movies in theaters. then, yeah, fair enough.

I agree there are lots of ways to look at, but that is how I was looking at it, so that was my answer when I was asked.