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Forever and always. Like it or not, the '90s now fall under the "classic" label.

The strategy they mandate is whatever makes them the most money, personally. The fact that they have this power without any required understanding of the product producing said money is, IMO, the actual problem here.

Maybe so, but no official source is going to say it's not doing well (unless it absolutely tanks and they have to), to be fair.

The investors during the 4e era didn't seem to change their mind.

I didn't say it was evidence. I said it was a question. You're welcome to not care about it. I have no horse in this race, really. Just a little bored and the topic seemed interesting.

I often forget about published adventures. I never buy them. The stuff I buy is also the stuff most likely to have compatibility problems.

A lot of trad folks don't think about their play with the deep introspection and dissection the Narrativists seem to favor. That should be ok. Have you noticed how defensive the trad folks are in this thread? It's because IMO they are being attacked.

You're trying to convince people that they're beliefs and preferences are wrong. I don't see anyone doing that to the Narrativists. Who's the aggressor here?

You're welcome to think so. Seems to me there's a lot of "I just want to have a good time" out there.

Modern D&D, particularly WotC's brand, is no longer my concern.

Do you think most folks are more ok with the playbooks and moves that constitute the visible actions that the rules allow in, say, PBtA games, but are baffled by the idea that the world they're playing in operates more or less like the real world in practice unless you make the point that, in...

A few things: 1. They didn't IMO "fix" all those things in 5.5, they changed them. How one feels about it remains subjective. 2. It is WotC that has no desire to publish a different version of D&D, not "anyone". There are plenty of different versions of D&D being published right now, and I...

What show is this character from?

You're not wrong, but it works both ways. Most players would I think be equally baffled by the principles inherent in many narrative games. How many actual gamers really care about player-authored rising conflict across a moral line, and how many are just doing their best to play the game the GM...

The problem is that it's a really tempting trap to a lot of people IMO, because there is significant appeal to the fantasy of just "having the magic in you". It really plays up the specialness of your PC, which is a real draw from the RP side. My issue with sorcerers is that it is a way to play...

This is what I mean, yes. Divergent mechanics. Pain points in the rules for those who aren't directly using the 5.5 core. Is what WotC going to produce worth it to those who are using a base 5e game that isn't 5.5?

There are, I suspect, considerably more sim-oriented GMs than there are sim-oriented players. At least, the DM side cares about it more on average I think. This to me means it makes more practical sense for a sim GM to take a known game like D&D and its relatives and tweak it as much as their...

Given the somewhat messy nature of 5.5's changes from 5.0 (IMO), what I'm actually curious about is how useful books in the 5.5 line subsequent to the new core books for those who did not buy those core books but are instead relying on some other version of 5e as their base. We won't know that...

Not a problem for me. Got a solve.

And yet the degree of hostility you're presenting right now isn't IMO being thrown back at your preferences.