D&D (2024) Kobold Press posts 2024 DMG Hit Piece

[Eubani]

KP has a bad habit of reprinting material from past books. The amount of duplicated materials in the Deep magic, Tome of heroes and various Midgard books makes for poor value.

 

[mamba]

KP has a bad habit of reprinting material from past books. The amount of duplicated materials in the Deep magic, Tome of heroes and various Midgard books makes for poor value.

only if you have all those other books… WotC is joining that club now, Shattered Obelisk included LMoP, the FR Guide will include Ten Towns from RotFM

If you count using updated material based on older material then there is a lot more to list…

 

[Minigiant]

I simply prefer it. WotC abandoned all the good ideas they had and instead gave us this lukewarm rehash that is just treading water

Death at the Alter of Backwards Compatibility.

WOTC was never going to reprint and redo every subclass in the PHB so people rather had the bad old system that supported every subclass or a better one that would require DM conversions.

 

[humble minion]

only if you have all those other books… WotC is joining that club now, Shattered Obelisk included LMoP, the FR Guide will include Ten Towns from RotFM

If you count using updated material based on older material then there is a lot more to list…

WotC doesn't even do this with a fraction of the regularity that KP does. I love the Midgard setting and I'll buy anything that KP puts out for it ... but jeez, I do NOT need to pay for the damn minotaur race yet again, just to pick one example. Pretty sure I have it in five different books now, and I'm a relative latecomer to Midgard. And big chunks of the Midgard setting book is near copy-pasted into the Southlands book too.

I backed the ToV kickstarter in the angry days of WotCs OGL scumbaggery, but i haven't actually got around to reading it yet. I think a lot of the wind got taken out of its sails by WotCs backdown and committment to ongoing licencing.

 

[Eubani]

I think I have at least 4 appearances of the Hunter Domain.

 

[mamba]

Death at the Alter of Backwards Compatibility.

well, the end result means I can stay fully backwards compatible by ignoring 2024 altogether since it failed to be an improvement

While some subclasses would have been left behind for the time being, I expect many of them to show up in the first ‘of Everything’ book.

Yes, it is less compatible, but for the most part that would be an issue for 3pp material, and WotC providing some guidelines might help with that

 

[mamba]

I backed the ToV kickstarter in the angry days of WotCs OGL scumbaggery, but i haven't actually got around to reading it yet. I think a lot of the wind got taken out of its sails by WotCs backdown and committment to ongoing licencing.

pretty sure of that too, releasing the SRD under CC certainly affected things for all the alternatives people were migrating to, but the new 5e variants the most… whatever happened to C7D20

 

[Parmandur]

whatever happened to C7D20

They are still releasing a lot of big systematic books though honestly it feels like theybpivoted to be modular systems to plug into D&D than a new alternative system as such.

 

[mamba]

They are still releasing a lot of big systematic books though honestly it feels like theybpivoted to be modular systems to plug into D&D than a new alternative system as such.

yes, they did their lifepath or something and now some crafting books, but 5e supplements are a far cry from a 5e alternative like ToV that it was supposed to be.

I assume it was silently cancelled / redirected rather than something they are still working on and that we will see core books for in 2025, and I do expect that the CC SRD is the reason for that

 

[Sulicius]

@Morrus Celeste Conowitch responds to questions about the article via Discord:

Long story short: I didn't write this article as its presented and have asked my name to be removed.

Wish I had before getting hateful personal messages. Morning officially ruined by seeing the post for the first time

This screenshot was shared with me via Discord, but I haven't found the source yet. Make of it what you will.

EDIT: It's via the Venture Maidens Discord server