Search results

Regardless of how flawed early D&D was, his greatest contribution to modern gaming has little to do with that. What is important is how he worked to get it to be the most recognizable TTRPG. Live him or hate him (and there are many valid reasons for both) he made that happen, did he have help...

LOL's, not getting sucked into a circular debate with you again. 😉 Good Day.

I think it came out after D&D didn't it?

And what would their games look like?

True, but what would TTRPG'S and everything that has spun off of D&D look like had he stuck with cobbling shoes? For better or worse he was the reason we got D&D. Leadership matters.

If we all agree all the time life wouldn't be better, it would be worse.

I gave you a starting place, dig in I will not do your research for you😉. Their initial plan was not disclosed until days before rollout, their marketing in the many videos for over a year with Perkins et al stating we had nothing to worry about and then we did if we were not going to adopt...

There are plenty of threads and announcements on DDB, I'd suggest starting here https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog#UpdatingtheDDBeyondToolsetforthe2024CoreRulebooks and here...

Many, many times. Though they didn't say what level of support, and when they said compendium only and you were going to have to homebrew 100's of things in just a few days is when the excrement hit the air mover.

I have hopes for this direction, but I will not be pre-ordering. It's gonna be wait and see for me, hard covers and quality usable content with good reviews are key to getting me to open my purse.

The fix will likely both be free and unannounced "eratta", less pushback that way. I'm sure the 5.5 phb roll out on DDB is far from forgotten by those incharge of implementations like this. It will be easier to do it like they did the market place, than risk a last minute revolt again.

If i was to be "excited" about anything it would be the FR books, but i just can't get excited about anything Wizbro is doing the last few years.

My opinion on the "backwards compatibility" is it was to drag users from 5e to 5.5 far more than it was to cater to new users afraid of an edition change. It is like they were trying to guarantee a certain level of sales to keep management and investors happy rather than putting the work in to...

True, not everyone is a fit for every table, nor is every table a fit for everyone.

Until they choose to enable the QoL 2024 ruleset toggle on DDB or allow me to sell my account there isn't anything they could produce that I would buy. 3pp is where I will spend my money until then!

I fit in this box when it comes to physically owned content, as for digital (DDB type) content I have completely stopped paying for stuff I can't keep a copy on my local server in perpetuity, or sell my account if I can't own it. Rant on: I'd rather pay creators that watermark pdf's than buy...

I'd miss DM's Guild more than WotC. As for WotC going belly up and D&D getting closeted, 5e would do just fine, maybe even better. Wizbro owns the IP not the game, which is why it wouldn't change much, just pick a ruleset and go the 3pp stuff will be there.

Speaking for myself, and I don't know which DM'S guild stuff is your's or if it have it, I would likely not buy the 5.5 stuff if I had the other parts in 5e. Nor would I be inclined to buy a trilogy that split between 5e and 5.5. I am spending more on DM'S guild since 5.5 came out simply to...

Shunning works well, plenty of platforms that were far better than "ai" have come and gone in the last 20 years with little to no Shunning needed, what is that old country song about standing for something or falling for anything? Heck I am old enough to remember Napster, where are they now? Yet...

At this point I just have to ask if you're ok with the theft, or are you ok with justifying it for the convenience it provides? We don't need courts or precedence to know when people are being wronged, we need them to right the wrongs done to people. "ai" has been built on theft many people do...