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

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Look, some of us cut our teeth on Twitter, where D&D is crap and people who play D&D are stupid sheeple and if you don't play Pathfinder instead you're an ignorant phillistine; this barely registers on the Richter scale.

Man, Twitter at its height had so many communities. I literally never saw any of that, since I was in completely different bubbles.

 

[Gradine]

Man, Twitter at its height had so many communities. I literally never saw any of that, since I was in completely different bubbles.

I made the "mistake" of liking some posts about the OSL debacle and my algo became a one-stop shop for every "D&D sucks" take under the sun

 

[mamba]

And I think we can be almost guaranteed that 99% of the missing 2014 subclasses (not you, twilight cleric) will be reappearing in 2025 and 2026. And I wouldn't count on Monsters of the Multiverse not getting stripped for parts, either.

for that matter Volos and Tome of Foes already got recycled into MotM…

yes, I am expecting at least the races from MotM to be revisited, along with most missing subclasses from the PHB, Xanathar and Tasha. A new compatible core is a great way to recycle content without needing a lot of effort

 

[mamba]

Yes, it's me speculating based

just so long as we are clear that it is pure speculation, not something like a 90% probability until proven otherwise

 

[W'rkncacnter]

i mean, this would be one thing coming from a reviewer or something, but coming from...the company whose product is being compared favourably...it just comes across as kind of goofy and self-aggrandizing.

 

[Imaro]

I'd love to hear a similar sentiment from someone who hasn't and isn't planning to purchase the 5.5 DMG, or who has but isn't over the moon about it.

Why?

 

[mamba]

I'd love to hear a similar sentiment from someone who hasn't and isn't planning to purchase the 5.5 DMG, or who has but isn't over the moon about it.

or a defense from those guys that always defend any WotC action, but somehow if they are here they all find fault in this Kobold article…

 

[Micah Sweet]

According to the article, the Midgard world information is contained in a separate book, not in their DMG (with a convenient link to buy it for just $50). Which I'm sure is an approach that WotC could've followed without anyone accusing them of spreading out content in order to milk more money out consumers... sometimes you're damned if you do, damned if you don't

WotC could have fit a lot of stuff in their new DMG if the Greyhawk material was in a separate book.

Just saying.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Why?

Because otherwise arguments feel more partisan.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Because otherwise arguments feel more partisan.

...i don't plan to to get the 2024 DMG...