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there are a lot more people playing 5e than there are people who played 1e to 4e combined. Add to this that grognards generally appear to not like online play, which makes me believe that the market for this is much too small for WotC to try, even if they would be ok with splitting their player base

I guess my question is which of these would be included in the upcoming Daleland books, or are they just in nearby regions. Do we have any idea?

not that I know anything about the Dalelands, but from what has been written in this thread it sounds like ‘all Shire’, is there a Mordor in it / near its border?

well, they have not made as radical changes since, so I guess they learned something from it ;)

yes, back then they did, maybe without realizing it. I assume the result of that changed their perspective on quite a few things though. Also, back then they had neither the 50% profit margin nor the huge sales numbers. As always, necessity is the mother of invention. As long as they manage to...

if anyone can afford to experiment it is the guys with the 50% profit margin and the most sales by an order of magnitude or so. That they aren’t shows that they are risk averse more than it shows an inability to, they simply do not need to given their position in the market

people can always draw their own conclusions, so it is never necessary to point something out directly? That premise is very flawed… If I retweet Andrew Tate and do not add a commentary of my own, what does that make my post? At a minimum an implicit endorsement of his views. This is not really...

eh, there were misogynists then, there are misogynists now. Times have not changed all that much, esp. since those guys are attempting to drag everyone back to the 1800s. It’s more about the individual than the times. Gygax knew he was sexist, not sure why pointing that out today gets backlash...

it’s not like the 5e Dragonlance did not step on the timeline already.

given the reaction to that foreword, I am not so sure about that… if everyone agreed with that, why was the reaction not just a shrug and a ‘yeah, we know’?

maybe, but maybe the number of books sold is not the only thing that is relevant so you do not see how staying silent on something for fear of creating a controversy or it negatively impacting sales is cowardly?

what level of acknowledgement would have been acceptable to you, or should it simply consider everything Gygax wrote as just great and beyond criticism?

it certainly helps that we have no idea what was actually said…

how short, these half-page adventure skeletons or 5-10 pages each?

there is a preview and eventually there should be an updated SRD https://pelgranepress.com/13th-age-preview-pdf/