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My interest in fantasy and D&D both happened at around the same time for related reasons but through different means. My parents got divorced in the summer between my 3rd and 4th grade school years, and rather than live with either of them, I was shipped off to live with my aunt on the other...

Annnd here I'm going to have to protest calling people who aren't satisfied with a corporate produced product as "toxic." Like I said in another post, labeling people you don't like with negative, dehumanizing terms like that is way more negative than people saying they aren't enthusiatic about...

Oh for sure, things were much simpler before the Internet. I was also much younger and didn't have as specific wants in my gaming back when I had a blast playing Heroes Unlimited and Palladium Robotech. I'd hesitate to call what you're seeing an echo chamber though. For sure, any online...

I don't know, I've seen pretty positive things in the RPG community for individual games and creators. It's mostly the big corporate products that get the negativity, and it's mostly product lines with several distinct versions that get comparison and contrast. D&D just happens to fall under...

I would often agree with that sentiment for discussion in general (despite being overall negative on the current edition myself), but this is a thread about a) an official product release and b) WotC's attempt at marketing to get people excited for said release. Official products invite...

On the one hand, sure, there's that. On the other hand, production values can be the thing that pushes a product one way or another if I'm on the fence. I recently commented about getting the World Without Number printed copy over this. I already have the digital version. It wasn't a high...

Not really doing anything for me, but I've mostly jumped ship from D&D Current Edition Current Revision since Tasha's. I'm more likely to hunt down more used 2E source books than buy these. Then again, I did buy the alternate cover Planescape book purely because of the cover art, so it's not...

Novels aren't really a great source of data for a mechanics-focused argument one way or the other due to novel characters not needing to adhere to game mechanics in the first place. Personally, I don't see this as an argument that can be resolved. Some see the mechanical representation of...

It's not unprecedented in D&D. Setting aside the obvious race-as-class from Basic D&D, 3.5E had the Savage Species book, which allowed you to play monstrous characters and level them up as their race. There was also the Unearthed Arcana book, which gave little 3 level racial paragon classes...

If I ever switched to the 2024 rules (unlikely) and a player wanted to play a half-elf, a half-orc or, honestly, any other race that fit in with my campaign but wasn't represented in an official source, I'd make something up most likely. Just using the rules from two not-editions directly is...

Frankly, I have dozens RPGs I want to run, at least 9 of which are adjacent to or reminiscent of Dungeons & Dragons. I'll see how this one and its community develop, but even if I bought it today, it would likely be years before I even considered running something for it.

Most recently, I got: The Dragonbane starter set Age of Rebellion and Force and Destiny Mekton Zeta and Mekton Zeta Plus Dungeon Crawl Classics First Time Fan Kit and Lankhmar box set

I got started with some version of Basic and then got gifted a copy of the 2E PHB, DMG and MC, but the first thing I purchased was the 2E Ravenloft box set. This was, unfortunately, after I had moved away from the friends I got started with, so it would be another 3 years after that purchase...

Nearly a decade. Started with some form of Basic (don't remember the version since I didn't own it) when I was 10, moved on to AD&D 2E maybe a year later, then joined a group in high school that mixed in some World of Darkness stuff, most notably Changeling. Moved and joined another group that...

Well, that was the push I needed to go ahead and add DCC to my collection. Just ordered the First Time Fan Kit as well as the Lankhmar box set and Dungeon Denizens book.

I wonder if 5E is really the best chassis for this archetype. I'm planning a mini-campaign that starts off with the players playing villagers that survive a massacre (the massacre will be played out in the first session; I'm planning out a full deck of characters for them to burn through before...

Let me go against the grain here by saying that there's absolutely nothing wrong with adding sci-fi flavored elements into D&D. D&D isn't medieval fantasy. It references medievalesque trappings frequently, yes, but both in terms of technology and culture, D&D is all over the place. Medieval...

It's up to WotC to decide whether or not I matter to them. For the most part, it feels like I don't. But that's okay. It means that over time I shift my spending from buying the newest D&D stuff to buying other systems, hitting up Kickstarters and hunting down old D&D stuff. If anything, I...

To me, the absolute core of D&D is a d20 and a social contract. Want to play DM Fiat: The Game? The players describe what they want to do, and the DM decides if a roll is needed, and what the threshold of success is. Anything you add to that just makes it more or less like one version of D&D...