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Its not that complicated. The more setting cannon a franchise has, the more movies people are required to watch to have the background needed to understand a movie. If people need to have watched a dozen movies to actually understand a current movie, you are going to start loosing your...

Elon had already decided to step down as twitter CEO before he put up the poll. Musk's stupid antics at twitter has cost him billions of dollars and crushed the share price of Tesla. Investors in Tesla are close to rioting. Musk is facing a massive law suit for destroying Tesla share price...

To be fair nothing will reach the level of Infinity War and Endgame. Kevin Feige and team managed to capture lightning in a bottle with the first 3 phases of the MCU. The amount of planning, co-ordination, creative vision, and levels of confidence frankly verging on hubris, that was involved...

You don't need to play 5E. There are lots of other games out there. You can play a game you like. You don't have to hang out in a 5E forum, cluttering up every thread complaining that 5E doesn't cater to you and your playstyle. Everybody gets it. There isn't a poster on this forum that...

They could make a game more like you want, but doing so would make a game that would be less popular with the majority of their current audience. I understand you want WotC to support your play style. It is validating when the majority of the people agree with you, but this is just not going...

I'm sorry but you can't make a game that literally appeals to everyone. People have different play styles, many of them mutually exclusive. You can't make one game be every thing to everyone. You can't expect that just because a game designer claimed that wanted to design for everyone, that...

D&D abandoned primarily focusing on that style of games and became the most popular rpg ever. Seems like a good decision to me. The people who get to decide if a play style is "objectively better" or not are the players who buy the game. And the players have spoken in resounding numbers that...

It hasn't happened yet, but that is the strategy. Ask me again in six months.

Vaguely. It's kind of amazing how much D&D's status has risen in the last decade isn't it. 10 years ago the best we got was knock-off legos. Now the decade old core rule books are crack the top 10 in amazon of all books! My sister was out at a bar a couple of weekends ago and she ran into a...

Sure "the corporation" wants you to buy their new books. (Ignoring the philosophical implications in discussing what a corporation "wants".) "They" also understand that you can never make a product that will please everyone. They make the best book they can that they think will appeal to the...

The exact details don't mater. It was just an example I pulled out of my ass to show how insignificant the amount of money the game books actually bring in to a company the size of Hasbro. The fact that a movie could bring in more money than every game book ever, shows why they don't...

I always think of Monte Cook and his "promise" of modularity, when I see people criticize the developers for "corporate speak", or for not specifically laying out all their plans for the OGL and 3PPs, before they have even finished writing the rules. For a brief moment 5E had a developer who...

I am sure the designers would like it if everyone buys their new books. They are working hard on the new rules, and I am sure they are proud of them. They don't however, need everyone to like or buy the new books. I know one of the designers, I think it was Crawford, has repeatedly said that...

I don't want to get dragged into a fight about the last playtest, but show me any statement from a game designer say, "I promise Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons will be modular". I can't find the original interview where Monte Cook firsts brings up "modularity", but here is a quote from a...

I know people love the idea of a fully modular D&D, as you can see I like the idea too, but can we give the "Broken Promises" line a rest. It was 1 statement, in 1 interview, before the years long public playtest had even started, by a designer who shortly after left the company over "creative...

Trying to change the narrative from what? What is it exactly that you think they game designers are trying to do? What I see is game designers trying their best to explain what their goals and expectations are for the new "version" of the game. They don't want to call it a new "edition"...

Being the first game out of the gate, and managing to become incredibly popular before it got any real competitors, led to D&D trying to be everything to everyone. Surprisingly it actually manages to do a pretty good job at it, if you are willing to use some optional rules and do a little...

I think this is ultimately the source of 90% of the disagreements on this forum. People argue about different aspects of the game because they have a fundamentally different view of what the game should be. Is it trying to emulate reality, Tolkien, or Dragonball Z?

Who cares if it is a new "edition". Edition is a vague term that has numerous different meaning in different context. In the past, new editions of D&D have meant that the new books are not compatible with old content. The designers have flat out stated they intend for the old adventures and...

I think that the bastion system should primarily interact with the downtime system. I can see it as being used to help organize downtime activities and tie them together with lifestyle expenses. I am picturing a modular system that lets players and the DM build their base over time. I'm...