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Nobody is saying you're wrong that it COULD have been better managed. If it had WotC never would have been able to buy TSR in 1997. Gary and Lorraine Williams both screwed up managing the company during the 90's. This isn't exactly a hot take or a new one. What YOU are missing is the fact that...

MUD's where the first MMO's, Everquest started development in 1996, Runescape, and the first ever graphical MMO Neverwinter Nights...which was literally D&D online from 1991-1997 You were hardly the first one to come up with the basic idea of MMO's lol.

There's no way that anything could have done what WoW did. WoW had multiple things going for it 1) Built in fanbase 2) broad appeal 3) easy access to game play 4) devs that wanted to get thing right from a company people trusted to GET right because of their history 5) easily accessible lore 6)...

You're correct that D&D is the grandpappy, many universes wouldn't exist without it and most modern fantasy can trace it's roots directly to the influence of D&D, including Warcraft. But what you're missing is TSR DID develop PC and console games, a LOT of them over the years and some sold...

The house was sold sometime in the past year and the museum moved to another location in Lake Geneva last I heard

Even going off of that, there are some mark and significant changes that either streamline some things, are better experience overall (Warlock, Ranger) or are just brand new (Mechanist, Lineage/heritage/talents) or are significantly better than w/e WotC wrote (subclasses, backgrounds, Luck...

Highest level adventure at the moment is like level 8 with the Labyrinth Adventure

Hate to say it but you're going on some really old information. Yes it's very similar to 5e at it's core, but just in the last year has added a significant amount of additional books that have made the game feel and play differently. There's more movement, Subclasses are much less "generic" and...

There isn't anything specific for adjusting cleric but the split at level one where Manifestation of Faith gives you more spells, no heavy armor or martial weapons, and Manifestation of Might gives you those things. Brigandine armor is also a thing in ToV which is 13+DEX but noisy armor (I...

In the Labyrinth World Book there is the Celestial Warlock and PG 2 is bringing the Sacred Sorcerer which would effectively give you what you're looking for with the Cloistered Cleric feel.

Tales of the Valiant 100%. I'd love to play some of the other games but generally don't have the time, but all my games are moving towards ToV

Keep in mind that Steamforge Games created the Starter Set, while KP hand a hand in writing the rules and adventure, it is SFG's product.

Oh, yeah ToV is far tighter than DM spells. The Theurge and Witch are being redone for ToV as well for Players Guide 2

What is considered "bad design"?

ToV has a number of things going for it that make it ideal upgrade for anyone looking to move away from WotC but still wanting to continue to use their 5e stuff with minimal adjustments...it's the system for you. The best parts of ToV Lineage/heritage/backgrounds - This was my biggest concern...