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Well, indeed, I would say this use of "sacred cow" in a dismissive "that's juat silly!" way is precisely what went wrong with 4E: treating "sacred cow" as an object of ridicule that needed to be "slaughtered" to make "sacred hamburger" (actual language from WotC designers at the time...

Game design, like human history, is never merely getting better or getting worse; it wobbles. 2014 took a step back to take two steps forward, so 2024 could take a single cautious step forward. Thst is what I would like to see from the next revision in the 30s, and on and on forward.

The situations are different, though there are similarities. If an RPG developer wants to really sell, they have other viable options: indeed, the largest TTRPG Kickstarters are all non-D&D. And if they do something else and find a small audiwnce...ot can be viable. Doing non-Wondows software...

Makes sense when you think about it: 2014 was designed to be appealing to a wide group of players, and at this point most people who play D&D, snd hence also TTRPGs, started with 5E 2014. Then 2024 was designed to focus on appealing to what people wanted to see improved in 2014. One...

The current D&D designers, who are on a hot streak, are actually some of the best paid professionals in the history of RPGs. You may not like their stuff, but "amateurs" is a rather silly term to throw around here.

Well, yeah, that's the thing: unleash people to imagine any replacement for 5E they want, it's not likely to be a radical shift.

It is interesting that the Plotweaver system Brotherwise Games has built for the Cosmere RPG does all of these things: Investiture is a "Magic points" system using an Attribute derived number similar to HP that is Encounter based resource to fuel Slipp tests (since magic is Skills), and tge...

This is what I think the Cosmere RPG did that is massively clever: it is a very different game from 5E D&D I key ways, but it very much "feels" like playing D&D in a moment to moment way.

This is projecting a separation of D&D the brand experience and TTRPGs as a hobby onto another person that might not exist in their emotional complex. It exists for you and foe me, but not necessarily for everyone.

Well, selling out primarily means it has done better than their business estimates, which is great. There have been over half a.million characters created for Daggerheart on Demiplane, which is a heck of a lot of interest. Doesn’t mean it will "replace D&D", anymore than a board game taking off...

The general "public" sees the brand D&D and TTRPGs as basic the same thing, let's be honest. Critical Role has probably been one of the best advertisers of the existence of other games in the history of the hobby, as well as being one of the best showcases of D&D specifically.

Daggerheart is doing extremely well, but that doesn’t even mean it is necessarily in some life or death contest with D&D. The TTRPG industry is not a zero-sum, winner take all scene, even if D&D is the lion's share of the market.

Popph, I love the inter al organization of the box: definitely more premium board game im design than the 2014 set was. Those dice look solid.

So say we all, unto ages of ages.

Fiend pact Warlocks are not necessarily in league woth the Devil, nor Grwat Old One Warlocks with Cthulu, they just have a connection that gives them power. If 5E Dark Sun has a no-takesie-backsie rule (which is explicitly laid out as such in the new PHB and DMG in ramegards to Warlocks and...

That was the OG parody. The whole point of Warhammer, Fantasy or 40k, is that it is a campy parody.

Yeah, the game designers have ghe next two years of books mapped out, but careful forethought and planning isn't soooo evident on the broader business side. We are seeing a generational turn, though, where a lot of the strictly business side people have actually played D&D at some point in...

Hell, I've struggled trying to explain to the people I play with how 4E was different than 5E...and they've played both, too!

But still, people seem to have put weird expectations on this.

You know what, that's really funny because of the two books Towers of Midnight is apparently more of Jordan's own text than Gathering Storm is (the Tower of Genji sewuence is entirely writtenby Jordan, for instance), though frankly one of the main reasons Sanderson was chosen to finish these is...