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D&D takes that off the table in a number of ways - Leomund’s Tiny Hut is just a 3rd level spell but it makes it completely possible for a party to get a good night’s sleep while an F5 drops rolls right over them. D&D is its own genre, and does not play nicely with other types of story beats...

Unless they are creating some new set of rules to improve on something and make it work better, largely no. That’s not to say they aren’t good, or popular or fun. Those all brought new technology used in new ways. But even with smart phones, and televisions, and computers, there comes a point...

You’re arguing to yourself now. This has turned into a rant. You keep ignoring the actual words I’ve written to make whatever point you want and I’m not reading all of that.

Yes. Sorry, I don’t know what time frame you’re referring to and you’re being very non-specific. We don’t know what the impact of 2024 rule set is yet. You may want to go back and re-read from the start, maybe with a little less anger. I’m being serious and I don’t know what your point is...

D&D is not the same thing as WotC. Two separate things with two different standards and scales for measuring innovation. The game can improve but that’s not the same as innovation at the company level. You said WotC was an innovator and I’m saying no, they haven’t been in a long time - not that...

Well, yes and no. But if it does bother me, I just change it or I find something else to play.

If this was a one off, I’d agree, but this has been a pattern going back across all the editions put out by WotC. From a business standpoint, it’s not innovative. Within an edition, there are changes but to me that’s just fiddling with the dials. I mean…they’re just more settings. I don’t...

It’s not really clear what that promotion entailed if anything and they didn’t stick around anyways.

Honestly, their best stab at doing something that could’ve been innovative would’ve been Sigil, but it wasn’t technically feasible and they didn’t have the time/money/resources to commit to it. Expecting everyone to have a powerhouse PC to run it wasn’t going to get far. We’ll see what Exodus...

That’s an iteration of the existing game. That’s not innovation.

WotC hasn’t been an innovator for a long time. They’re taking care of a brand now. Innovation is something that’s going to happen outside of Wizards. What’s the last new game that came out of WotC? Why did guys like Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, and Rob Heinsoo leave just to go start making games...

This. If the product is truly just AI produced, the only thing being offered by WotC is the binding and finished product, there’s little preventing me from using the same tools to create something similar as a digital product without paying WotC. Regardless, I’m not predisposed to supporting...

Yes, let’s scrutinize the financial statements of a company that does not explicitly break out D&D sales and profit yet again, and make concrete claims about the state of the industry. 🙄

What am I missing here? I click the link and heard no mention of either Jeffro Johnson or BROSR. The only person she name drops is Ben Robbins who created or coined the phrase West Marches, and she’s talking about mechanics.

True but generally I look to see if it’s a newspaper or not if it’s an older movie, which for Dances with Wolves and Goodfellas, both predated the typical Internet review site. Again, it’s not exact but just for a general sense of where reviewers landed at the time.

Does Rotten Tomatoes “Tomatometer” not suffice for a general idea of reviews? Most of those are taken from the time the movie was released, and whoever is asking (I don’t see their exact post but I get the gist) can look up the individual reviews from their or simply accept the aggregate.

True but it also implies there’s a ceiling at WotC. Once you’ve reached lead designer for D&D, there’s nowhere else to go, no way to move up in any creative space at the company.

Yeah, I can enjoy Gygax’s writing as a historical document or essay but not as a set of rules.

Wyatt has been there a long time and has decades of experience. Schneider worked with Paizo for a number of years. It's a changing of the guard for sure, but there are people to fill those shoes.

I guess the thing about terming something genre entertainment is most films can fit this definition. Gangster crime dramas is a genre with its own set of tropes and encompasses a lot of well known classics, but the term is often used reductively.