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

[SkidAce]

But then they announced the Wildmount campaign book and I'm back in their camp. I'm one of the (presumably) rare Gen-X gamers who likes Mercer's work. I like his imagination and play style, and I love the Critical Role brand. Matt Mercer's games feel a lot like the games I used to play in high school and college with my own friends, back in the day...funny accents, table props and all. I have the first book he wrote, published by Green Ronin, and I'm impressed with the level of detail and the amount of material he crams into his campaign settings. Seriously, DMs everywhere could learn a lot from him. So of course I'm gonna buy that book.

Same here.

Re: born mid 60s, am I a boomer or Gen-X. I was always ahead of my time with tech and stuff....

 

[Anoth]

Same here.

Re: born mid 60s, am I a boomer or Gen-X. I was always ahead of my time with tech and stuff....

I think 1965 is the beginning of gen x. 1965-1979

 

[BookBarbarian]

don't believe the hype, scotch is usually nasty and too expensive.

I rather like Costcos' blended Scotch. Particularity with Soda.

It helps that it's very affordable.

Edit: To be fair, I am a poor judge of Whisky in general as I've never had one that I didn't like. I'd give the worst Whisky I ever had 7 thumbs up.

 

[Anoth]

I rather like Costcos' blended Scotch. Particularity with Soda.

It helps that it's very affordable.

Macallans scotch is my favorite. It I like Jameson, John powers, and bush mills Irish whiskey just as well.

 

[lowkey13]

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[oreofox]

@Sacrosanct and @Mistwell : What @dave2008 said is pretty much it. Adventures are absurdly easy. I ran B8 Rahasia (from Basic) this past summer. The only difficult thing was the bone golem (as it doesn't exist in 5e), and looking around on the internet, I think Sage Advice said to use a modified iron golem? It's been since July that I had to figure that out. I used an NPC from a dmsguild product for the Rahib. Except for the Rahib, everything was a cakewalk as monsters were a lot scarier back then (gargoyles having immunity to non-magic weapons, and the adventure was for 3rd level I think it was). But that's a rambling tangent.

Adventures from previous editions are simple to use. It's the other stuff. Monsters, spells, magic items, player options (turning kits into subclasses). Those are the things giving me hangups.

 

[Parmandur]

You're either trying to be funny or you truly don't understand that ad hominems are the plural of ad hominem using standard English. Tell me you know the difference between similar and plural... Or would you prefer for me to have used "argumenta ad hominem" instead of standard English pluralization of a Latin loan-phrase?

Either way, every time I provide a rebuttal as to why I consider some products to not "be tha best evar," I don't get cogent responses picking apart my argument.

De gustibus non disputantem.

 

[generic]

You're either trying to be funny or you truly don't understand that ad hominems are the plural of ad hominem using standard English. Tell me you know the difference between similar and plural... Or would you prefer for me to have used "argumenta ad hominem" instead of standard English pluralization of a Latin loan-phrase?

Either way, every time I provide a rebuttal as to why I consider some products to not "be tha best evar," I don't get cogent responses picking apart my argument.

I'll give you a coherent response, just give me a coherent reason why you dislike the products first.

 

[BookBarbarian]

Eh, it's like almost anything else. If you're into it, you can get really into it. If you're not, you wonder what all the fuss is about.

It's definitely true that there are a multitude of different types of scotch (from blended to single malt), and that's before you get into other type of whisky (such as Japanese whisky) or whiskey (aka, bourbon).

I would say three things-

1. People like what they like.

2. Some types of scotch (whisky, whiskey, etc.), like any luxury good, are stupid expensive for what you get.

3.

I've found that the most important jump in whiskey quality is getting off the bottom shelf. The jump going from bottom shelf to one up is bigger than than going from there to top shelf IMHO.

 

[lowkey13]

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