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This is, I think, because people are lazy and bad and can't be bothered to put 3 minutes work in to understanding the rules or their character while simultaneously expecting the GM to slave over every detail for hours in order to ensure the pinnacle Mercerian experience.

Of the settings, Eberron has the most potential to be punk. I run it a lot like a cyberpunk game, actually. It has emergent tech disrupting society, megacorporations monopolizing that tech, and the protagonists are usually a motley crew of ne'er do wells getting on the wrong side of those...

People should set DCs correctly. Of course, 5E gives next to no actual advice on how to do that, so...

Yeah but it is still low compared to 3.x and Pathfinder.

Just to be clear, I did not make the claim that 12 year olds are WotC's target market -- and I don't think it is. I think that may be where they want to hook them, but their actual target market appears to be GenZ (late teens and early 20s) because that is where the disposal income is before you...

Maybe I was not clear: because of the massive amount of money that they raised, they are able to sell these books for lower than the market standard because they already know their costs have been recouped.

D&D is pretty much its own genre and its own artistic style/vibe at this point. And that isn't a dig. It is cool that it has an identity.

The numbers being too high. 5E solved that. The d20 no longer gets buried by modifiers, even at high level.

I don't know what Plotweaver is, nor do I particularly care. This thread is supposed to be about what you would like 6E D&D to look like. Supposed to.

Modrons aren't steampunk.

That book was paid for by a MASSIVE kickstarter. You really can't consider its cost as typical for the industry.

This was one of the rare problems 5E actually solved. If there is a problem with proficiency, I think it is that it is the same for everyone for everything. There could be more nuance.

"Steampunk" is a specific genre, with specific elements that make it what it is. No, D&D is not Steampunk. Some of the art in Von Richtens and Eberron lean toward the aesthetic slightly (although Eberron is more aetherpunk/magitech), but even given that, art is not the extent of a genre.

12 year olds today have more money than I ever had, and I could still buy the occasional D&D book with saved up chore and birthday money.

Thanks!

Not just Foundry. Fantasy Grounds offers a discount on their VTT implementation equal to the cost of the PDF for Paizo stuff. Paizo wants you playing. I really wish I had not bounced off PF2.

I did not know that. Thanks.

Proficiency specifically? No. But in a level based game, numbers should go up IMO.

Do you really think the only difference between Basic and 4E is the numbers?

Maybe that is what motivated them, but their success means people ARE looking for different systems within the same genre slices.