D&D 5E Am I no longer WoTC's target audience?

[lowkey13]

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[Doc_Klueless]

...expected whining and complaining from players...

Funk 'em. If the players are whining and complaining about the setting I'm running adventures in that I prep in my spare time while they're at home watching a movie, or going out to eat, or whatever, they can suck my Dilly Bar.

Harsh language? Sure. But I'm not obligated to run adventures for whining crybabies who can't appreciate the work I put into converting anything.

Bunch of self-absorbed, self-centered wankers. The lot of them.

Too many other good players out there who just wanna play the game.

Language, please! <-- Oops, right. Won't do it again. Thanks for editing the post!

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[3catcircus]

Yeah, how are you going to do that without pissing off some GH fans? Some want it rebooted to the original boxed set. Some people like the Carl Sergeant era. Some like the Adventure Begins/Living Greyhawk Gazzetter era. Some want all the Living Greyhawk changes to become official. Some want the Paizohawk stuff to be official.

Who says you can't do it across history? Reboot to the beginning, include a chapter on the GH Wars/FTA/LGG eras as an addendum, and adjudicate discrepancies amongst the various prior publications. Call it done.

 

[3catcircus]

This strikes me as a very wrong-headed theory that only a person with a passing knowledge of how creative industries work, and more importantly a specious understanding of this instance we are currently discussing, would engage in.

What makes you say that. We know that Mearls has talked about Greyhawk and "gets it". We know he has an expert knowledge of 5e design principles.

WotC obviously has no heartburn about going to outside talent for additional content or canon adjudication - so sources like grodog could be enlisted.

 

[dave2008]

If Mercer didn't exist, I think Mearls would have worked on a 5e Greyhawk.

Wasn't he working on his own version of 4e Dawn War / Nerath / Nentir Vale setting in is most recent personal campaign.

 

[Anoth]

We are such a fickle lot. Wanting everything and never pleased. And the older we get the worse we get. Can’t blame millennials for this one.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

I'm a Gen-Xer. You can blame us. I don't mind.

 

[Anoth]

I'm a Gen-Xer. You can blame us. I don't mind.

Oh. No one cares what we think one way or the other.

 

[Garthanos]

I kind of feel the same way, but I don't blame WotC. They are just responding to demand or perceived demand, after all.

My favorite edition was 4E, so I've been through the feelings of dissonance and disassociation that a significant number of gamers want to buy stuff that I don't want, and don't want to buy stuff that I do want before. I've made peace with that, and I just buy the stuff from WotC that I'm interested in, and increase the probability that WotC will make a similar product by a fraction.

In the meantime, I can come up with my own stuff.

This I kind of wish the Setting books for Magic the Gathering were written inclusively.