D&D (2024) Wargamer Takes Shot At WotC for Not Respecting Forgotten Realms Canon.

[Zardnaar]

Fairly small recon and let's face it who cares about PDKs?

Has anyone ever played one in 3E or 5R. Did they exist in 2E?

In fiction it's pretty much any fighter or Paladin joing the order. Fiction your a Cormyr warrior with noble background.

Vs spell plague, second underling, time of troubles they're all worse RSE's.

2E to 3.0 kept the retcons fairly restrained.

 

[pemerton]

If Cormyr is not updated then the fiction has not changed. The existance of a class or subclass does not change the fiction.

This is an odd thing to say.

If a subclass is published that says such-and-such about some fictional elements (like an order of knights), that is a bit of fiction about those knights and their order.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Has anyone ever played one in 3E or 5R

5e I had one as a DMPC/stand in for a captured PC. The paladin in that party was a PDK squire, but obviously didn't have the subclass.

 

[Valetudo]

My problem with the pdk is that they took a really bad subclass and said here's a poopy warlord. Now instead of fixing it into a good warlord, they are making it a bad mount subclass. If you want to make a mount subclass, use the cavalier.

 

[Incenjucar]

It would be quite interesting to see what D&D would look life if, whenever possible, WotC carried lore forward and did their best to adapt the rules to fit, adding things instead of changing.

However, they have always made the lore fit the latest design ideas instead, with 4E being the most extreme example. It's especially visible with monsters, which have the most design flexibility yet still can dramatically change to the point of being different ideas with the same name, like the 4E lamia.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Fairly small recon and let's face it who cares about PDKs?

Has anyone ever played one in 3E or 5R. Did they exist in 2E?

In fiction it's pretty much any fighter or Paladin joing the order. Fiction your a Cormyr warrior with noble background.

Vs spell plague, second underling, time of troubles they're all worse RSE's.

2E to 3.0 kept the retcons fairly restrained.

Clearly alot of folks, more then enough to make Wargamer stand up and take notice.

 

[Parmandur]

DnD's newest playtest retcons Forgotten Realms lore, and fans are pissed

Alongside cool subclasses, the latest UA playtest doc for Dungeons and Dragons introduces lore changes that has Forgotten Realms fans concerned.

www.wargamer.com

I didn't expect this, shot across the bow by Wargamer, even video game journalists are sick of WotC not respecting canon.

"Journalists".

Click bait from a click bait site is not exactly all thwt interesting.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Clearly alot of folks, more then enough to make Wargamer stand up and take notice.

I think a little perspective is warranted here. The article you linked to was posted a month ago. Wargamer seems to produce a lot of articles each day. Two days ago they posted 12 articles in a single day. The author of that article has published 25 articles on Wargamer in the last week.

With all that context in mind, Wargamer seems to "take notice" of a lot of stuff every day. I doubt that a single article one month ago is really going to be making waves at WotC, or reflects much more than an opportunity for the site to get a few more clicks. It's not exactly investigative journalism.

 

[ECMO3]

Fairly small recon and let's face it who cares about PDKs?

Has anyone ever played one in 3E or 5R. Did they exist in 2E?

In fiction it's pretty much any fighter or Paladin joing the order. Fiction your a Cormyr warrior with noble background.

The Purple Dragons have existed since at least the novel Waterdeep which published in the 1980s.

The problem is using the title "Purple Dragon" for a Dragon riding subclass, especially since the Purple Dragons have an airial cavalry that rides Hippogrifs.

 

[ECMO3]

I think a little perspective is warranted here. The article you linked to was posted a month ago. Wargamer seems to produce a lot of articles each day. Two days ago they posted 12 articles in a single day. The author of that article has published 25 articles on Wargamer in the last week.

With all that context in mind, Wargamer seems to "take notice" of a lot of stuff every day. I doubt that a single article one month ago is really going to be making waves at WotC, or reflects much more than an opportunity for the site to get a few more clicks. It's not exactly investigative journalism.

Well people here on the board noticed and complained the first day the UA was published. This is the only breach of thematics/cannon related to a class name that I can even remember people complaining about here.

Plenty of people complained about the 5E PDK, but no one complained about it being called a Purple Dragon, because it thematically fit what they are.