D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

[Micah Sweet]

So let's take a hypothetical. We have 10 DMs. Five DMs are new to D&D and don't use those rules. Two DMs aren't new, but still only use the default rules. Two DMs use one or two variant rules, and one DM goes whole hog and uses multiple non contradictory systems. Those 10 pages are useless to seven plays, mildly useful to two and important to one. Is that worth 10 pages of real estate?

Is the lore glossary worth the real estate it has in the book?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Part of the problem with being subservient to the needs of a larger publicly traded corporation.

That is in fact the real problem here.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

And yet they're still asking folks to drop $150 to buy their core books again.

So it were better if they reproduced everything?

 

[Remathilis]

Is the lore glossary worth the real estate it has in the book?

I mean, I'll probably get more use out of it than I would with the honor stat or spell points...

 

[mamba]

∆like when players decide they don't care and are just going to rest even if the world burns)

then the world burns, evil wins, the PCs die or get captured or whatever makes sense for the campaign, and in the next campaign maybe the players are less blase about the world and do not think that it revolves around them and that events wait until they are good and ready.

If you let them experience that early enough, then the consequences need not be as dire as the world burning either

 

[Micah Sweet]

No it wasn’t. There was nothing about this in OD&D or any early editions.

Casters have a lot fewer spell slots than they did in earlier editions, and short rests are a recent edition to the game.

And yet 5e is by far the most popular edition of the game, so clearly these “complaints” have not negatively impacted people’s enjoyment of the game.

Hypothesis: players LIKE feeling like badass superheroes.


As pointed out, very few people actually used these rules, and did not report problems. This would be more of a non-problem.

I believe EN World publishes something of that sort….

@Crimson Longinus is obviously referring to D&D 5e when he says, "the game", and you know it. And players and DMs seem to have differing opinions on how "awesome" it is for PCs to be superheroic badasses.

 

[Micah Sweet]

How many of those events require day to day tracking? If the Duke is going to be assassinated a month or 3 months from now, why not figure out after the fact how long the PCs spent on a particular adventure rather than track mornings and evenings? That seems like a lot of extra bookkeeping that doesn’t have relevance to the party. It’s more for your cognitive understanding of the world, and it seems there’s a less onerous way of doing it.

Because that's not the way time works?

 

[mamba]

The company that made it have called and are calling it the same game, but in a lot of ways that is misleading.

they called it the same edition and a revision of it. If it were the same game, what did get revised?

 

[Micah Sweet]

To a few people. But too bad. Use (general) your brain and figure it out. WotC does not treat to everybody like they are all idiots.

You think them insisting that 5.5 is still the same 5e is an example of them respecting the intelligence of their consumer base?

...Ok. Let's just say I strongly disagree with you on their intentions.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That's actually to WotC's advantage. Commerce is commerce, an a company's responsibility is to it's shareholders, not it's customers.

As I said, being beholden to public shareholders is the problem.