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Yeah, companies try all the time to make stuff like that happen. It doesn't seem to take. 5.5, other than here, seems to be what most people are calling it.

What else would he say? There's plenty of evidence that that take isn't odd at all, and it's kind of the darling topic of the DungeonTuber community right now. If the take's so odd, why are so many people making it? I'm not saying that I think that they're right; I honestly don't care enough...

If he did it as an unofficial product, now that he's retired, I'd consider picking it up. Dragonborn is in the SRD, and Io is from Greek mythology, and is also one of the moons of Jupiter. Sure, he'd probably use a different name or something. But he may have enough pull to get a dispensation...

Nothing wrong with it in theory; it's usually extremely poorly executed in actual practice.

I agree; privately, I think more people engage with the hobby by reading books more than anything else. Even people who are actively playing in at least one campaign probably spend more time reading books than they do playing. And many people aren't actively playing, or their games are sporadic...

Arguably, that's exactly what the real problem actually is, isn't it? Starting somewhere around 1977 and the AD&D rules, the game got too complex to actually describe without a style guide that read more like a textbook than anything else. And an overly long, tedious textbook at that. Gygax...

That seems a bit harsh to call out the OSR for that (and I say that as someone who doesn't identify as an OSRian) when the same would be true for any edition of D&D ever. What if you wanted Night of the Walking Dead in 3e? Heroes of Horror? What if you wanted it in 4e? 5e? I'm sure there's some...

To be fair, there are a lot of systems that do exactly that, except without the D&D branded stuff, of course. GURPS. BRP. Savage Worlds. FATE. None of them are anywhere near as popular as D&D, but yeah; I mean, it exists. Arguably, D&D did that too (how well is subject to debate) during the...

I'll take 'em! I mean, I may have most of them, but there's a few holes in my 3.5 collection that I'm retroactively trying to fill. You can offer to run your own game. Make it a one-shot or mini-campaign, so they'll be more likely to give it a try without feeling like they have to invest more...

I know, right?

And the first of those factors, you'd expect, would vastly more than mitigate the second. At some point, if the sales are lower, and I know that some people don't want to believe that we know that, even though we almost certainly do and we've even had people who oughta know tell us so, then...

We don't have NO idea. We don't have an exact idea, but we certainly don't have NO idea at all. As to your other point, that door swings both ways. If a product is "high quality" but can't sell, then in what way is it "high quality"? What does that even mean? I mean, I don't disagree with you...

Not entirely, if sales of recent releases are compared to sales of past releases. It's not exactly secret that Spelljammer and Radiant Citadel didn't sell as well as Strahd or Tasha's. It's not even a secret that the 5.5 core books aren't selling as well as Strahd or Tasha's, although there's...

It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway; they could very easily BOTH be happening concurrently. WotC hasn't been catering to my tastes in decades, and I also believe that in just the last few years, their work is lower quality and going downhill. And it's probably also not coincidental...

I had the same thought and didn't get around to addressing that yet. That's a classic "the door swings both ways" kind of question. It's easy to be on the side of the producer, and liking what they're making now.

They also can't, because it seems that the inevitable result of corporatizing entertainment products is that they turn into soulless corporate slop designed by committee. They literally can't seem to produce anything other than that unless designers have a free hand without corporate...

That's kind of absurd for multiple reasons. The first being that a sampling of some 3PP is indicative of all 3PP, the second being that most of the best and most popular 3PP stuff has always been made by literally the same designers who make the official stuff. As a side gig, the both write...

Why should there be compromise? I'm considerably less interested in compromise as I get older. As you say; there's nothing stopping me from running exactly the game that I want to. And I mean: exactly. On the other hand, I don't care what anyone else plays, and I certainly don't advocate that...

The real question, of course, is whether or not WotC is right in their analysis of where the market is. For comparison, look at Hollywood. Although the population of America is higher than it's ever been, and inflation has increased ticket prices over time, the box office is significantly down...

It's not like it's a given that the new aesthetic is going to be nearly as timeless as the old. You should consider the possibility that part of the reason this complaint has seemed to pick up a lot more steam in recent years is because WotC either isn't successfully adapting to the new market...