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I've done a lot of thinking on how the aesthetic of medieval times has moved from the more colorful costumed look to the grimmer and modernistic appearance of the 90s on. I think that has more to do with Hollywood than anything, but D&D art and aesthetic certainly follows the trend. As an...

Well... Final Fantasy 1 (the original NES game) borrowed very heavily from D&D as D&D was (for a brief time) a giant influence on Japan's idea of Western fantasy. The influences on D&D were fairly unknown, but D&D's distillation of them was. More people in Japan probably read Record of the...

I don't think we're going to see new versions of modules, and I think settings will be updated in expansions (like Forge of the Artificer) rather then reprints. So I don't see Curse of Strahd 2024 or Van Richten's Guide 2024, but I do see a new Ravenloft book or module that updates mechanics in...

Oh please no... I tried to like DH. It's too loosey goosey for my tastes. I'd much prefer 5.75 over DH if that's the direction they go in...

It's a chicken or the egg scenario. As mentioned later, D&D absorbed a lot of myth and fantasy and regurgitated it into other media. For example, the monk class is clearly based on all manner of kung fu pop culture, but unarmed Eastern fighting types being common in all manner of RPGs from Final...

Yeah. Dragonlance predates Warcraft

I mean, so is a utterly incompatible 6e that forces you to start your collection over again. 5.5 was a compromise between trying to innovate enough to justify a new PHB without sacrificing sales of their settings and supplements.

Where do you start? The warrior/healer/mage/sneak dynamic of classes. The shape changing druid. Death knights. Color coded elemental dragons. D&D was unique that it was a shameless rip off of so much media but itself became the backbone of adventures gaming (both TT and video) that it's hard...

That was a a NEVER going to fly. Reprint the core books with new art and it would be labeled a soulless cash grab. You'd have to change the book to account for the new art and the minute you touch the PHB, people are going to demand functional errata. Races at the very least would need to be...

I think the issue is that you are equating your opinion of 5.24 (that you have little interest) into a general status (WotC is in spaghetti mode while developing a D&D you'd prefer) and that doesn't jive with what others are seeing. It's fine to not like 5.24 or 5e altogether, but that's not...

The beauty of a cynics perspective is that you can rationalize away pesky facts that get in your way. Not releasing new stuff? Working on 6e. Releasing new stuff? Trial balloons for 6e. Crunch light? Filler while busy working on 6e. Crunch heavy? Testing new stuff/throwing stuff at the wall for...

Damn I really am trying to convince myself I don't need that Strahd drop...

Three D&D Beyond exclusives. They aren't the only Beyond or Digital exclusives. The Mortuary for Planescape is one, there are four Monster mini books, the Vecna book and the HoT tie ins. And they were doing digital supplements as far back as The Tortle Package. Oh yeah, such as rush job to put...

Ravenloft Horrified eh? Take my money...

Seeing as WotC doesn't view them as separate, I'm guessing you're going to have to wait until an incompatible 6e to get all the 5e books in PDF

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Clearly he thinks the last year was just fancy reprints of the PHB, DMG, MM, SCAG and RftLW...

At the very least, I expect three years of solid releases before any serious reevaluating happens. Then another couple years for them to do internal design and announcements, followed by a huge playtest schedule. There is absolutely no way in 2026 they are winding down production already. We...

The answer inevitably ends up "I don't like it, so it failed and I'm waiting for the next new hype."

Stoker added the cowboy because he thought it would help sell the novel in America. Ironic since he's the first character dropped in almost all adaptations...