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  1. mamba

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    yeah, your ‘resists’ and their ‘will not’ are really the same thing. If the characters resort to most of your suggestions they probably will drink, before that they won’t
  2. mamba

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    if on the other hand the rules say you can get anyone to do anything if you are just persuasive enough, that might prevent railroading, but it also can lead to some pretty nonsensical situations.
  3. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    lol, that is possible, have no numbers on that though
  4. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    I am fine with the metric, I just think it is way too early for a conclusion. Of course sales will pick up initially, you have essentially the same number of new people coming in and created people upgrading to the new edition, the latter is obviously a bump. Having no bump would have been a...
  5. mamba

    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    him and Dancey, from the analysis and decision to buy TSR to the release of 3e, I would be interested in that
  6. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    I’d say it was a good decision to have 2e, they just did stick with it too long Pretty sure the bump in 1e was triggered by 2e too, otherwise it would have continued its decline It was consistently able to generate more sales for a while, because the previous edition had already dropped...
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  8. mamba

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    regardless of the results the GM arrives at and how much player input they incorporate? So unless there is a prescriptive procedure that the DM has to follow, it would not be a sandbox, regardless of whether what the GM arrives at could be an outcome of that procedure or even be better (more...
  9. mamba

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    it never was a concern at all for me, but then all car engines are nearly identical enough that the minor differences do not really matter. These days you can roughly distinguish between gas powered, EV, and a hybrid and that is all the detail you really need to care about. The same is not true...
  10. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    ToV was kickstarted in May 2023 with delivery in April 2024, so a little ahead of the 2024 PHB (the ToV DMG was a separate KS) Whatever happened to the Cubicle 7 5e, did they officially drop it? I know they made some 5e supplements instead, not sure if there will officially never be a PHB though
  11. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    A5e came earlier, ToV was a reaction to the OGL move by WotC (and overlapped with 5.5 development)
  12. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    agreed, that is what my last sentence you quoted said
  13. mamba

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Announces April 22 Release For 2024 System Reference Documents

    pretty sure they used the OGL and just declared everything IP
  14. mamba

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    no, that means one option was taken from you, not that you only have one option you actually can take
  15. mamba

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    if using that power to force the players into a direction, sure, there is nothing that says it needs to be used in that way or be used at all however
  16. mamba

    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Hussar’s sandbox is mostly ad-libbed and I do not see you calling it a railroad. Also, I doubt a railroad is ‘a considered’ amount of it
  17. mamba

    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Announces April 22 Release For 2024 System Reference Documents

    no, quite the opposite even the post you referred to does not support your claim of relevant differences, but does the opposite
  18. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    without 2e that would have happened much sooner, you statement for 2e -> 3e applies here as well I agree with this part 3e to 3.5 was not a success, 3.5 followed the same trajectory as 3e and the editions before it. If 3.5 was a success then so was 2e and 3e you are ignoring 4e Essentials...
  19. mamba

    D&D 5E (2014) I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

    that was basically guaranteed given the continued growth of 5e. If they had not managed that, it would have been a disaster, so I do not take that as an indication of anything. It will take 2-3 years at least before we can say anything, the only thing that is clear so far is that it was not a...
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