D&D (2024) Another new interview with Perkins & Wyatt about the 2024 DMG


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Micah Sweet

Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I feel like continuing to bring that up is just their way of excusing themselves from having to care about consumers who have experience with other editions of D&D, since their research indicates most don't.
 



DEFCON 1

Legend
Supporter
Sounds like such players are still a sizable minority though. Focusing your attention so hard on the new is IMO a losing proposition in the long run.
Oh yeah... rather than focusing on the hundreds of thousands of new players with their advertising of their new game, they should worry about how the hundreds of players of other editions and games who aren't even playing the new game they are doing. Makes perfect sense. :rolleyes:
 
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Micah Sweet

Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Oh yeah... rather than focusing on the hundreds of thousands of new players with their advertising of their new game, they should worry about how the hundreds of players of other editions and games who aren't even playing the new game are doing. Makes perfect sense. :rolleyes:
First of all, derisive laugh emojis aren't a great form of communication.

Secondly, the video says "less than half". It doesn't say, "a vanishingly small percentage we have no reason to care about". That's you.
 

Tales and Chronicles

Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
Oh yeah... rather than focusing on the hundreds of thousands of new players with their advertising of their new game, they should worry about how the hundreds of players of other editions and games who aren't even playing the new game are doing. Makes perfect sense. :rolleyes:
Some posters are so entrenched in their old-school mentality that even TSR's marketing makes sense to them!
 

mamba

Legend
Sounds like such players are still a sizable minority though. Focusing your attention so hard on the new is IMO a losing proposition in the long run.
they are all playing 5e now, that is the target audience. Telling them about what is supposedly great about the 2024 books obviously is the message here, not nostalgia for what older editions did differently.

If Ford wants to sell you a new truck, they talk about how great that truck is, not waxing nostalgic about the models from 20 to 50 years ago and how they miss some stuff they had.

That is just how marketing works, expecting anything else is unreasonable
 

First of all, derisive laugh emojis aren't a great form of communication.

Secondly, the video says "less than half". It doesn't say, "a vanishingly small percentage we have no reason to care about". That's you.
Why exactly should you advertise to old players? They are already usually fully informed. Can do their own houserules etc.
Maybe let the core book be a core book for newer DMs.
Maybe have some advanced book later.
Maybe when new DMs are not so new anymore.

And then in the last video I saw, they explicitely called out that the advice in the new DM might also be quite useful for old ones.

And remembering, how it was when I started playing, the first chapter should be read by us old DMs too. There are two headers in the TOC, that read: "respect for the DM/the players".

I hope that chapter gives good guidelines how the game is thought to be played together, not againt each other.
 

TiQuinn

Registered User
they are all playing 5e now, that is the target audience. Telling them about what is supposedly great about the 2024 books obviously is the message here, not nostalgia for what older editions did differently.

If Ford wants to sell you a new truck, they talk about how great that truck is, not waxing nostalgic about the models from 20 to 50 years ago and how they miss some stuff they had.

That is just how marketing works, expecting anything else is unreasonable

If I want to incorporate previous edition material into my modern D&D game, I’ll go back and buy the old stuff and convert it myself. Done this a number of times, in fact. I tend to like my takes on things better anyways. Regardless, I want the designers to focus on the game going forward.
 

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