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I agree that a 6E should also have built in explicit modularity, with dials for low and high fantasy, heroism and horror, and so on.

Wishful thinking: A single 150-page hardcover with a light version of the game. I mean really simplified, not the usual 5e Basic reduced...

I would prefer if WotC looked forward with D&D but the fanbase tends to look backwards.

You said. What, then, do you think sustained 5E?

IMO that Law vs Chaos axis is most interesting and works best as a (meta)setting rule when those forces themselves are morally and...

The very 3.x rules regarding some spells and alignment the OP mentions is something I miss and wrote back into my 5e homebrew rules...

My point was that D&D is not inherently better than 80% of other games on the market and its brand does more to keep it dominant than...

Sure. but here, on EN World, a lot of people are talking about bringing back older stuff, from 3.x and 4E is TSR-isms. But you are...

Alignment started out simply as Faction. In AD&D it morphed into a moral and ethical description, which later got subsumed into an...

You are completely wrong here. Tolkien intended to publish the Silmarillion, but never managed to finish it. The material did not come...

I find it a little frustrating and a little sad that so much of this discussion is backward looking. But I suppose I should have guessed...

That is certainly one way to approach the situation. it is clear that you recognize the term to be a common shorthand and therefore...

Inertia is the most powerful force in industry dominance.

It seesm strange that you really, really want streaming to not have contributed to the rise in popularity of D&D. Why?

Here’s another: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5489813/dungeons-dragons-dimension-20-critical-role-madison-square-garden-stadium