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I'd say that Princes of the Apocalypse would need basically next to no changes to be a more "Western" aside from some aesthetics: the small towns threatened by cultist bandits would work well enough. Same goes for Lost Mines of Phandelver. Both would be more Pacific Northwest, bu that vibe...

If WotC has proven anything over rge decades, it is that they lack the ability to shape the tastes of the public: they are more successful when they pursue the existing tastes, and fail when they try to shape them

Hey, written communication is open to misinterpretation: I gor a much stronger vibe from what you wrote than I guess you had intended.

It's an anthology of short adventures, seems pretty vlear...?

Lanfear's plan? Chaos.

When I was playing around wirh DallE image generation, I was actually quite surprised that when fed the text from this module...the AI produced fairly coherent imagery. It is turgid prose, and not at all good...but it does at least paint a picture, I guess?

Yeah, if they can pull off even a semblance in 7 seasons, thst would be a pretty impressive feat of editing...but it is feasible. I'm not super duper pleased with the shortcuts they have made to get there but given the constraints of their medium they may be necessary.

The bigger indie publishers are mostly printing in China, however: I think RPGs as a hobby will do fine, and the bigger companies (WotC, Paizo) will do fine, as will smaller more hobbyist designers...but the smaller companies thst were big enough to get office space and warehouses, and peint in...

Doubly so considering how the previous hard decade had already kept game prices really quite low.

Oh, jeez, that's an existential threat to them...

Not duplicitous, but a little bit meglomanical.

I wouldn't count on it. Those are core parts of D&D's identity, stable for over 50 years now. Hasbro will never touch that.

Certainly wise to never underestimate the human capacity to make mistakes, but I think that the success of the 2024 rules may have given "stable D&D" the sort of "escape velocity" needed to get away from the gravity of potential major rule revisions.

In terms of sheer possible outcomes in the physical world? Yup, sure, possible. Just seems unlikely, and every product thst gets added to Beyond (now third party optiona added frequently!) and sells well adds just a bit more difficulty to the business case for radical change for change sake.

Right, radical mechanical changes are relative: I expect 2024 will prove more radical in changing the actual rules than future versions of the game. Aesthetic and content changes, with mild adjustments over time.

I've re-read the books, some multiple times, and I still find new things in them.

Yeah, I wouldn't even expect anything as mechanically radical as 2024 again. Look at how many publishers still get mileage out of polishing Basic D&D after 40 years, or Chaosium and Call of Cthulu.

Yeah, I distinctly remember the Big Three discussing their 5 year plan early on, and...they followed through. Them seemed to come up with a new one thwt culminated I'm the new core books.

That ending is such a doozy that Robert Jordan wrote an entire epic length novel processing it! First, I would like tattacker the chance to commend the reference work that Jordan's widow and personal assistants put together after the whole series was done, it is excellent as a reference tool...

Mostly in for the maps and adventures, but I think this is neat.