D&D (2024) Command is the Perfect Encapsulation of Everything I Don't Like About 5.5e

[DinoInDisguise]

lol chill dude, I’m not killing the “fandom” by refusing to bow down and lick Hasbro’s boot. As a consumer, I’m choosing to spend my money elsewhere and I’m encouraging others to do likewise.

To be fair, boot-licking and wishing of failure have an middle ground. You can choose to not support a company, without wishing them ill. Wishing failure on a critical part of a beloved hobby, in a forum about that hobby, predictably got a response.

 

[Divine2021]

To be fair, boot-licking and wishing of failure have a middle ground. You can choose to not support a company, without wishing them ill. Wishing failure on a critical part of a beloved hobby, in a forum about that hobby, predictably got a response.

I really don’t see the need to cheer on a billion dollar company, nor the moral necessity to wish them success. I do hope 5.5 fails financially because Hasbro is an awful company, and I don’t feel bad about saying that.

I will support my hobby by spending my money supporting smaller projects that interest me. I’m not going to be weirdly guilted to support the billionaires.

To get back to the topic at hand, I agree entirely with the original post, which posits that Hasbro are moving to entrap players within their digital sandbox—and I hope such an effort blows up in their faces.

 

[Remathilis]

lol chill dude, I’m not killing the “fandom” by refusing to bow down and lick Hasbro’s boot. As a consumer, I’m choosing to spend my money elsewhere and I’m encouraging others to do likewise.

Nah. Just another entitled fan who apparently "found something better" but can't stop thinking about and bashing their ex.

 

[Oofta]

At the end of the day, regardless of what the spell says, I’m allowing non listed commands rather than constraining it. That’s a net benefit for the players. If I have an NPC spell caster, there’s usually other spells that I’m using first anyways.

Quite frequently the spell casters in enemy groups are the ones hiding in the back that are significantly lower levels, hoping to avoid notice but either aiding the big bad or harassing the PCs. Even without that, if the PCs are low enough level that command is useful, it will be useful to their opponents as well.

 

[KYRON45]

I really don’t see the need to cheer on a billion dollar company, nor the moral necessity to wish them success. I do hope 5.5 fails financially because Hasbro is an awful company, and I don’t feel bad about saying that.

I will support my hobby by spending my money supporting smaller projects that interest me. I’m not going to be weirdly guilted to support the billionaires.

To get back to the topic at hand, I agree entirely with the original post, which posits that Hasbro are moving to entrap players within their digital sandbox—and I hope such an effort blows up in their faces.

I hope you find the peace you are looking for in life.

 

[Oofta]

Nah. Just another entitled fan who apparently "found something better" but can't stop thinking about and bashing their ex.

Yeah, I hate it when my favorite band from high school goes all lamestream and sells out. Hate it so much I have to tell everyone on the band's website how stupid they are.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I'm just glad that they got rid of the word 'edition' and thus we never got massive, clique-y divisions in the fandom.

 

[Minigiant]

I really don’t see the need to cheer on a billion dollar company, nor the moral necessity to wish them success. I do hope 5.5 fails financially because Hasbro is an awful company, and I don’t feel bad about saying that.

I will support my hobby by spending my money supporting smaller projects that interest me. I’m not going to be weirdly guilted to support the billionaires.

Err..psst

If Hasbro goes under within the next 5 years, there's no company ready to fill in the financial marketing gap.

Then your favorite game will slowly go out of business as well.

The hardcore scene always relies on the mainstream to bring in new numbers..

There must always be the LE.

 

[mamba]

Good point. From the spell: "The spell has no effect if ... your command is directly harmful to it." I'll have to remember that the next time a DM tells me that "jump" means "jump off the ship and into the ocean because I say so."

then they are going to argue that it is not the jump that is directly harmful, like Tom Cruise pointing out that it was not the fall that killed his victim, but the impact

 

[Oofta]

then they are going to argue that it is not the jump that is directly harmful, like Tom Cruise pointing out that it was not the fall that killed his victim, but the impact

I don't have a fear of heights, I have a fear of landing really, really hard?