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If you take the most mindlessly literal interpretation of his statement, sure, but Hasbro's behaviour re: firing successful teams and people from profitable companies, just to get a stock bump is pretty close to the line for a more realistic appraisal of his meaning. So I think actually your...

Probably because convincing a company to spend the $200m to $400m it now takes to develop an MMORPG, especially one which is using a licenced IP, is going to be extremely difficult. I mean, Microsoft just cancelled an MMORPG which was 80-90% of the way through production, by an experienced and...

I think it's time to let torches go. I don't think there is any possible way 5E or 6E or 7E can make people excited about or interested in torches. Torches have been doomed since 2nd Edition at the absolute latest (just look at early-2E FR books and how obsessed they are with "glowglobes" or...

Worse than that, the latter ("a company without a track record of strong CRPG production") means it's unlikely to even be an okay game if they go straight for BG4. It's likely to be another Sword Coast Legends.

Yeah that "we" makes sense for sure. I think the most likely outcome here is one of two things: 1) By far the most likely - WotC sells/spins off/shuts down its videogame studios before BG4 is released (quite possibly before it's started). Unless Exodus is a massive hit (and my guess is it's...

Yeah that's my concern too. It's hardly life and death but Dark Sun is a setting that, in theory, is incredibly relevant to our day and age, never more so, and if WotC puts out some half-hearted version (which I hope won't be the case) that people ignore it, and that players who heard about the...

Well if you don't care about WotC or what they create, that's totally fair. But you appeared to be speaking more broadly with your use of "we" rather than "I". I think an awful lot of people on the D&D board of ENworld probably do actually care about WotC and the blow-back/damage to WotC as a...

That is the issue. You're seemingly assuming because of the name that this would be, like the other BG games, an exceptional game. Unless you believe in like, fate/destiny and that the BG name is especially blessed, there's no reason to think a WotC-produced BG game would be even good at this...

I believe it but I remain somewhat skeptical it wasn't still pretty rules-heavy compared to the bulk of RPGs on the market - good to hear there are modules that remove stuff like those manuevers though. I don't think the "general public" knows what GURPS is. I don't think most people who play...

Quite right! Broken clock etc. but this isn't one of those times. I remember the first or one of the first times I had a player describe something was probably the early or mid 1990s, it was a Cleric or more likely Speciality Priest in the FR, and I was trying to roll up something (probably...

Yeah but you literally explicitly said "1E", not "AD&D". I was actually editing my post to note 2E was similar to 5E when you posted lol.

Who is saying that though? "People" is such a truly pointless thing to say when literally no-one here is doing that. I don't think you can really dial GURPS down to below the lower end of heavy crunch unless 4E has some exceptional dials I'm not aware of (which is not impossible, tell me if it...

I mean, it's quite a lot more complex than just roll stats, pick race, pick class or whatever the old exact 1E order was, but it's not complex, so actually yeah let me revise my statement - 5E's chargen is significantly more straightforward than how 5E plays (assuming you start at L1). 2E though...

Daggerheart is massively more straightforward than D&D in terms of rules complexity. I've played both recently. It doesn't even have initiative or actions or movement ranges in any conventional sense. I take it you're basically unfamiliar with it? Cosmere is also more straightforward based on...

Which ones specifically do you disagree about? I could understand saying something similar to @Micah Sweet re: overall viewpoint but I cannot immediately/easily see any logical basis for even attempting to argue most of the games are lighter. Perhaps I've overlooked something? There are 2-3 I...

Yeah I think a lot of people here do, because it's when they really got into RPGs, especially as the internet came online and they started discussing them.

Definitely agree. I've seen this a bunch with older point-based systems. I thought I felt that way for most of the time I played RPGs, but having played games that basically don't have rules for advancement (Mothership might as well not, for how much of a fantasy the rules it has for that are)...

It's a scale, and if you put 5E at medium (especially in the middle of medium), then you create a ridiculous situation where almost all games are light or medium. 5E has more and more complex rules (even accounting for exception-based design) than easily 85% of games out there (especially 2024...

I noticed this and am sure it's intentional. There's a common and well-evidenced theory of game design that basically people can only deal with 5 to 9 options (or thereabouts) at any given time if you want them to make quick and intentional choices they feel good about. This was why 4E capped...

Generally you roll when there's stress (in the non-mechanical sense) and or tight time pressure or your character doesn't really know how to do something. Obviously in combat situations that's hard or impossible to avoid though you can often get Advantage initially if you get the drop on...