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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9788084" data-attributes="member: 54840">I argue WOTC isn't in a position to really innovate. 5e is great but aside from a few things like Advantage, I'm not sure it's an innovation and more of a refinement. Mike Mearls reguarly posts on his patreon (he just posted about the problems with legendary resistance today) about the compromises they had to make to stay true to D&D.There's so much innovation happening in TTRPGs outside of things coming out from WOTC. How long did it take a D&D book to mention safety tools? The D&D Starter Set is the first set to omit ability scores and just include bonuses, an ancient and largely useless holdover. WOTC definitely lags behind other RPGs who are able to move much faster, try more interesting concepts out, and break away from 50 years of tradition. Daggerheart, for me, is a great example of the innovation we can find in RPGs with damage thresholds, story-based turn order (whatever you think of it), quick-build character folios, hope and fear mechanics, and so on. And even in Daggerheart's case, they took a lot of this from other RPGs which they reference in the beginning: Blades in the Dark, 13th Age, Cypher, and so on.WOTC can't truely innovate because they're as big as they are with the 50 year legacy. They're far more bound to the past than any other RPG publisher. They'd never make a product like Mork Borg or Ironsworn. They're in no position to.</blockquote>