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Touché! :)

Well, there goes the argument that they’re abandoning old gamers in favour of the new generation…:)

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to discuss the changes. But: 1). You are on record as having said you are tired of discussing the play tests, as opposed to talking about other D&D topics (despite continuing to engage in the play test discussions) 2) Your discussion of the changes seems to...

Teens may have less disposable income, but are notoriously bad at prioritizing what they have. At least in my day, and I doubt that's changed. I have no trouble believing they're out there buying more D&D books than they technically should be... Edit: And if anyone doubts that I'm part of the...

And yet...you seem content to come in and criticize the changes the rest of us like. The playtest discussions aren't stalking you. You're choosing to engage with them. And by engage, I mean mostly tell us how wrong we are and that WoTC should be doing a better job making you personally happy.

How are the conversations you want to have being curtailed? I get you don't want to talk about the playtest, but you could just avoid those threads and talk about what you do want. The new edition isn't out yet, I'm sure discussion about the actual current mechanics would have traction. And I...

Not only that, but as we get older, we tend to need less new stuff. I have 5+ editions worth of D&D books on the shelf beside me. I sure don't need more, so I'm pretty picky about which ones I buy. A new player is more likely to buy everything that comes out, because it's all new and shiny to...

Just because they are changes you don’t like (and I’m guessing you are self-identifying as old here), doesn’t mean that other old folk don’t like them. Or that they are targeted at young people. I mean, what rule changes have they proposed that have an age restriction on them?

But, what should they be doing other than what they are doing? Putting out new rule books that people are buying. Maybe I’m just a gullible consuming sheep, but I certainly am not feeling ignored. Okay, maybe the characters in the artwork should be using more hairspray, but other than that…:)

I still have trouble seeing how they are saying us old folk don’t matter. Obviously they want to bring in the new blood, but as a member of the older crowd, nothing they have been doing feels like it was designed to alienate me. I’ve enjoyed the new books they release (I’ve skipped some, but...

"Better Game" is a very nebulous category to try to pin down. Better how? And for whom? I freely admit there are games out there with 'better' mechanics than D&D 5e. If I was going to run a pulp/cinematic campaign, I'd say Savage Worlds has better mechanics for that. If I'm looking for a...

You're asking us to interpret inheritance laws that don't actually exist. There is no set of D&D laws that apply across the board. If the laws of your fictitious country allows illegitimate children to inherit, I don't see a problem with it. If they don't, it won't work. But it's all down to...

Yeah, she shouldn’t have any trouble with it. Action movie comedy. If she can handle the MCU, she should be fine.

So, if your goal is to spread the word of all the good 3pp products, in order to stop the dominion of WOTC 5e, wouldn’t it be more productive to post actual specifics about those products? Start a new thread? Right now, all I know is that you dislike WOTC 5e (because you tell us constantly)...

I'm sorry, but it's just starting to sound like you are unhappy that they're not catering to your wants specifically. You can deliver more than one thing, but there's only so much time any company (even the one the size of WoTC) can devote. So, given the choices, of course they are going to...

Now I’m confused. Two pages ago, giving people what they wanted was a bad thing…:)

So the fact that Micah is grumbling now means they are on the right track? :)

Well, in a way, that’s what they’re doing with the play test: they are serving up different cuts of meat, and saying “do you like this? No? How about this instead?”. Start with hamburger, try prime rib. Too rich? How about…um….I don’t know enough about cooking to continue this metaphor :)...

So, they should have put out rules that made people grumble? Just so they could get used to them? That seems like poor product planning to me. And to do so just so they could shoehorn in settings before they were forced to be ‘woke’? Is that the arguement? Why would they want to sit through...

Well, then my point stands. If not enough people liked the psionic rules, then it would be wasted effort to include them. You might not agree with their magic threshold number, but they have to draw the line somewhere and focus their work-hours on what will make the most people happy. Doing...