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Adventures are the lyrics. The rules are the instruments. APs are just longer lyrics. The people at the table are the band, with the DM as either the drummer (setting the tempo and letting the players call the tune) or the lead vocalist (in a more railroad-y type of game). Advice videos are...

Yes, and that creation of something new can simply involve synthesizing existing elements in a way not done previously. In both cases, I disagree. Taking RMs skill system and synthesizing it with what D&D already had is IMO innovative, in that the end result is something not seen before. The...

Indeed. Where things go adrift is when people start automatically assuming "innovation" and "improvement" are one and the same. Each edition has done some things better and some things worse than the edition(s) prior, where the value of "some" varies both by objective measures and the viewer's...

Sometimes things get to the point where further innovation beyond very minor refinements isn't going to make it any better, and the best course is steady as she goes. Put another way, if it ain't broke why even bother trying to fix it. And I say that as someone not a fan of current WotC design.

And posting on a forum like this is... ??? (I'm assuming you're using "groggy" in a denigratory sort of way here, as that's how it reads)

Which is fine, but - like it or not - the player-base of all those games in aggregate is a rounding error in comparison to that of D&D itself. They're a non-factor. One thing I think WotC might have got right here is that because it's a relatively small shift from 5e to 5.5e the adoption will...

Welcome to Edition Sport.

More thoughts... Reverse 5e? Revived/Raised/Resurrected 5e? Rockin' 5e? Radical 5e? Randomized 5e? Reduced 5e? or... Rotor-5 Engine? Robot 5 Exists? (i.e. the number five is alive edition) Righting 5 Errors? Did I hit the mark yet? :)

5e has come, and peaked, and gone; and the book is now mostly closed on it. 5.5e's peak is most likely yet to come.

Were anyone to approach under such a misapprehension they would quickly find themselves corrected, either by me/us or by their own research into our system or both. This would - both in theory and in practice - occur before said person/people even got to the stage of being invited in.

Punch and eye, more like, if they don't capitulate quietly. :)

General, all day long.

Personally, I don't see any of this as that much of a problem. One of the prime considerations already when jumping to another table these days is what system - never mind what houserules - they're using, so this feels like you're just taking that which has been the case since D&D was invented...

One more keystroke to type, two more syllables to say and-or think (or three if one sees 5.5 as just "five-five"). For ease of speech and thought, the fewer syllables the better.

In a store it makes sense to have it be a single-edition environment as that's the version you're trying to sell. Most of us - including this forum as a whole which covers all versions of D&D - aren't in that environment, and often do want and-or need to specify which edition or version we're...

Given that 6e will likely IMO come out in 2031, it lasting unrevised until 2052 seems like one hell of a stretch. Even 2042 seems too long. 2037-ish for the revised ".5" version, maybe 2039 if 6.0e proves highly successful.

That's fine. While we've charge forward to get our coup going we leave the Cloud of Paper Daggers behind us, and now the bureaucrats have to deal with it. Benefits all round!

As we charge forward in a disorganized mass, someone accidentally-on-purpose knocks the wheelbarrow over when it's next to a puddle....

That's what henches and hirelings are for, dummy!

Yeah, so isn't it just more efficient to skip everything else and just jump straight to the "we all go our own way" piece? :)