D&D General Dmg previews up

[Mistwell]

I also tend to respond to comments far past when it would be good for me, so I feel your pain.

Me three.

I don't want to be impolite to people in a conversation. I also have not perfected the "We don't seem to be going anywhere in this conversation" after all these years without being impolite.

It's a work in progress.

 

[Azzy]

This looks accurate. I still think 4e dmg2 is the best written ever. And I wish we were getting Nentir Vale and not GH, but that's fine, I can always use it w/o WotC updating it.

I honestly hope that WotC does a proper setting book for Nentir Vale for all 5 fans of it (I kid, I kid).

 

[Mistwell]

I honestly hope that WotC does a proper setting book for Nentir Vale for all 5 fans of it (I kid, I kid).

It was good. Genuinely good, thought out, interesting, left me wanting more.

 

[Zaukrie]

Apropos of nothing, have you heard the Good Word of the "Ignore" feature? It helps, it really does!

Truth.

 

[Zaukrie]

I honestly hope that WotC does a proper setting book for Nentir Vale for all 5 fans of it (I kid, I kid).

I laughed. Then cried.

 

[AnotherGuy]

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".

In what context are you using gamer.
The rest of your post I understand.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I don't understand this. You want a clean break so you don't have to buy it? Why should your preference factor into their design decisions when you yourself say that you are no longer want to be their customer? Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me you've made it very clear you want nothing to do with Wizards or their products. And you already have your preferred game. Are you just concerned that your preferred games will evolve slightly to mirror Wizards' D&D more? And if so, how is adapting a 5.24 book any different than adapting a 5.14 book to A5E, which everyone crows is still compatible with 5E and its variants?

There are many actual 5E customers who don't want a clean break that invalidates their recent purchases, and do want to buy a refined set of books that learns from the last 10 years. The sales prove that at the bare minimum.

I want a clean break so the community can move on to 6e (which they inevitably would) and all the 5e talk, much of which remains relevant to my interests as a 5e player, would continue on separately (albeit probably with a smaller base). As it is, every conversation about the 5e system, unless explicitly labeled otherwise) will assume WotC's current version of the 5e ruleset as a baseline, and I find that messy and annoying.

I know there's nothing I can do about it. I understand it's a selfish desire. It's still what I want. Feel free to judge me over it.

 

[Mistwell]

I want a clean break so the community can move on to 6e (which they inevitably would) and all the 5e talk, much of which remains relevant to my interests as a 5e player, would continue on separately (albeit probably with a smaller base). As it is, every conversation about the 5e system, unless explicitly labeled otherwise) will assume WotC's current version of the 5e ruleset as a baseline, and I find that messy and annoying.

I know there's nothing I can do about it. I understand it's a selfish desire. It's still what I want. Feel free to judge me over it.

I remember this happening with some for the 3e to 3.5e changeover. Nothing wrong with feeling that way.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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.

Having stuff in the book that you don't need doesn't make the book "less useful" if the rest of the stuff in the book is worthwhile.

I'm about as experienced as an experienced player can get (multiple games a week for 38 years, no breaks) and I welcome the very brief sections on "how to play". For one, I like the game being accessible to new players, and for another, it can be, as Perkins put it in the video, "validating".

And I'm not even speaking as a retailer - I feel this way wholly as a player of the game.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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

I'm pretty sure that I haven't looked at the 2014 DMG since 2014. Unlike a LOT of people, I DID read it. But that was a long, long time ago....