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This is an incredibly weak and petty complaint, frankly. The "difference" (if you can even call it that!) is purely: 2E - Establishes the default races and that the DM can change that is implicit. 5E - Establishes the default races and that the DM can change that is explicit. Are you...

Ok, but your response was vague enough that that didn't happen because you quoted only part of the text, and not the part you were referring to! 🤷‍♂️

From the post I think they specifically want stuff that is pretty classic like swinging a sword and like wave of sharp force comes out of it and chops stuff well beyond the sword's actual range (which I strongly suspect predates anime/manga by a fair distance but w/e), or even the more basic...

I dunno maybe you should have quoted that bit instead of an entirely other bit? But that's still word salad really, because D&D characters do have plenty of arguable "anime stuff" pretty early on. It's just a bit randomly distributed. Yeah it opens up more space for alternative designs for...

Yeah exactly. We don't need the exact same classes/subclasses/species/etc. as 2E or 4E Dark Sun, but having default restrictions to set the tone of the setting (something I believe 5E has precedent for now, though I forget where), which obviously, like everything, are subject to Rule 0, is going...

Yeah I was kind of expecting a sort of DMG2-type deal to be alluded to, and there's still time for it to appear, but... the vibe I'm getting from 2024 suggests it will not (not exactly a strong argument I admit, vibes lol). Right? I've run 5E up to 16th and honestly, it felt way more "grounded"...

To me that's just word salad. Like the range of possible things you could mean by that is so broad as to render it totally meaningless. Every edition of D&D back to 1E and before could be called that by someone who wanted to, and every edition up to and including the current one could...

Yeah I have to admit I'm a little surprised that 2024, instead of introducing more optionality and optional rules and dials and so on to D&D basically totally removed that aspect, and just hastily skips through how to build stuff. I'd hope a 6E did not do that, but instead made any dials more...

And yet... I think 80-90% of groups wouldn't even notice a problem. And indeed some significant fraction of that 80-90% would probably think it was better. Because a huge percentage of people playing D&D just don't play it attritionally, don't even think about that aspect of the game much, and...

Both of your points are why I'm eager to see more of their work outside a WotC context and when they're working "closer to the metal" as it were (as opposed to being in charge of others). With Crawford, whilst Sage Advice kind of ummm, wasn't a great look, I'm not sure it's ever been a great...

Yeah DH isn't allergic to setting details like Dungeon World for example is, it's more of a straightforward RPG just with narrative elements rather than a narrative RPG impersonating D&D rather convincingly (as DW was).

I mean, isn't it? You talk about the zero-to-hero narrative, but when was that last really true in actual D&D? 2E had Kits which absolutely blew that concept out of the water (some of them being very elaborate, literally from the launch of 2E). 3E had L1 Feats and all sorts of stuff. 4E...

I mean, that's a bit of truism, isn't it? Like, if you looked at 5E in 2014/2015 you might reasonably have said "Eh it'll probably do okay but it's not going to grow D&D, just please some old fans", based on sales and impact, but the combination of accessibility, broad appeal and massive...

I wonder if it's the same setting as the one they're working on for DH, if that's the case, or if this is the other project that Perkins alluded to? My guess is it is the same one - maybe they'll release a dual-stat book for DH and D&D 2024 eventually? That's got some real potential I think...

I mean, D&D fans are at least that volatile, so I'm surprised this was surprising! I guess it surprised you because the others have had decades? But volatile fans is something that can instantly coalesce in basically seconds, just look at the fandoms of say, Steven Universe, or god help us all...

Yeah expanded ritual casting would be key, because 5E has an utterly bizarrely tiny number of spells that can be ritual cast, and hard-locks rituals to (casting time +10 minutes) which also means far less can be done with them. But even then the issue remains that 5E is balanced around combat...

You'd really need to very thoroughly re-work Dark*Matter's lore because it's er... messed up and not in a good way, and in, accidentally, a very politically relevant way today, because the current government of the US got elected in part because of very similar conspiracy theories and itself...