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What do you think the impact of momentum is on the relationship between market service and sales numbers? "I don't like 5e but my group refuses to try other games" is showing up quite a bit in some spaces and "I want to play X but there's only people posting 5e games" is showing up a lot in...

I think the distinction I would draw is that DND appears to be cultivating interests in its playerbase that it doesn't really follow up on, rather than servicing a particular market well.

I'm not sure anything bears that assertion out, and I can't exactly prove a negative beyond proving the existence of people who aren't being served by it, which is self evident to anyone in the space.

That much I don't doubt, TTRPGs are hot right now and Dnd is the only household name TTRPG. My comment was more concerning playstyle preferences and unmet desire, as opposed to system selection.

Not sure, I know my experience, and with people I've discussed it with who weren't inducted by me, but I don't know enough about the tables you've played at to place them in the overall gaming ecology-- table culture is generally based on the subculture the most interested parties involved trace...

I meant more comparable to WOTC's own material, because in the grand scheme of things my content was fairly unknown.

I don't think they dislike generic per se, but I think there's a lot of attraction to the more gonzo stuff, hexblade does extraordinarily well on the basis of being very powerful and very anime. I don't think we have reliable data regardless.

Its hard to tell sometimes how much certain community beloved homebrews have penetrated, though anecdotally (again) before I switched to PF2e I had a fairly obscure centaur homebrew that was getting thousands of engagements on the various homebrew tumblr blogs and occasionally ran into players...

If I recall, I think I was counting your table (from having read many of your posts) in the categories I already exempted from the statement-- your playstyle seems to run to the lighter, older, traditional fantasy stuff, using 5e as a substitute for something like ODND, I could have gotten the...

Yeah, I mean among other things, I just had someone entirely new to the game show up to a library DND program with a character sheet for a Blood Hunter in hand, but yeah, that's anecdotal.

You can, we're already using many of the changes at my table, its a lot of errata by weight, but it's essentially just errata in the sense of streamlining rules or just reimplementing them into the existing system differently (in the case of alignment) replacing some feats, etc, nothing is...

People, really, really, REALLY like the changes-- buffs to the Witch, more focus on making feats POP, dropping alignment while retaining strong expression of Light and Dark Magic, Multiclassing caster is slightly stronger, clarified recall knowledge, a lot of niche spells have been combined...

They can't be serving it that well, the only people who don't seem to use 3pp or homebrew are people who play the game ultra-casually enough that they have a rulebook sitting around from when they played back in 2018 and maybe some of the psuedo-OSR 5e types-- even casual games that were just...

Actually I kind of agree with him, in the sense that what we've got has actually been consistently VERY CONSERVATIVE and not just in terms of the number of releases, but in what kind of content actually gets released. Remember when they UA'd prestige classes that would have plugged into the...

I'm really partial to games like this, to the extent where as I mentioned in the other thread, I write the world around the implications of the rules to make it happen, generally going even further than the official setting for a game to make it the case. Take Lancer, Lancer uses asymmetrical...

Exactly

I tend to write the setting around the game myself, it gives me a lot of great fodder to use when I twist the lore to suit the world presented by the rules. For instance, I have this really elaborate society of Fantastical Ninja Goblins that came entirely out of trying to reconcile Paizo's...

Yes, although I've got at least one player who disapproves of that fact because to him it's more interesting to jump to a totally new world every campaign or two, but for me, there's always so much within the same world to explore it doesn't feel very necessary.

I'd think of the contrast between Narrative Mechanics and.... Simulative Mechanics? that don't qualify as broadly being the difference between Doylist and Watsonian explanations in fiction, but as applied to cause and effect via game systems. This also works well in terms of why they're...

Skill feats can be fun, though some def depends a bit on the rulings your GM tends to make, or the need to perform certain activities in a given campaign, but retraining means you're never far off course correction. I like the ones that in aggregate form out a kind of kit for a neat thing-- like...