D&D 5E D&D and who it's aimed at

[Ruin Explorer]

Official support is necessary for all the things each poster personally values, because otherwise they aren't part of the game, and totally unnecessary for everything each poster does not value, since no one ever needed official support to DM.

Thank you for clearing this up!

I will accept my "unofficial" status and skulk away into the darkness with the mongrelmen.

 

[MichaelSomething]

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[Retreater]

Why does being grumpy about new products mean that we're old or we've "aged out" of D&D?
I think there's an adorableness to more recent releases that I don't like. But I also disliked Rime of the Frost Maiden, which had only like three adorable components

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(the frost spirits, the whale, and the baby squid monsters)

At this point I don't even think I could describe what I would want in a 5e product.
Maybe a suitably generic collection of 30ish page adventures (akin to Tales of the Yawning Portal). Or a solid campaign against traditional opponents (akin to Red Hand of Doom).
To me, most of the more recent stuff seems like nonsense.

 

[Scribe]

I'm not sure why you're discussing the definition of a child? My question was why you linked your not liking a whole bunch of products to your age?

Because I feel Wizards absolutely aims at a demographic that I have aged out of?

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Why does being grumpy about new products mean that we're old or we've "aged out" of D&D?

Frankly, I have no idea. It's a position I've seen quite a bit--see @Scribe 's post immediately above mine--but I don't really grok how "this is not for me/contains too much lighter and softer content" transmogrifies into "this is made for children, and I, a Very Sophisticated Adult, am therefore being ignored by D&D."

 

[Scribe]

Frankly, I have no idea. It's a position I've seen quite a bit--see @Scribe 's post immediately above mine--but I don't really grok how "this is not for me/contains too much lighter and softer content" transmogrifies into "this is made for children, and I, a Very Sophisticated Adult, am therefore being ignored by D&D."

I make no claim at sophistication, in fact if we wanted to boil it down, I probably want what would be perceived as less sophisticated by today's standards.

 

[Morrus]

Because I feel Wizards absolutely aims at a demographic that I have aged out of?

Ah, well I disagree with you 1000% that WoTC is aiming at a particular age demographic, as my original post indicates. Indeed, I think it's very clear that they are not, and are aiming at a whole range of audiences.

 

[Scribe]

Ah, well I disagree with you 1000% that WoTC is aiming at a particular age demographic, as my original post indicates. Indeed, I think it's very clear that they are not.

Thats fine of course.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Because I feel Wizards absolutely aims at a demographic that I have aged out of?

I'm 51, and I don't feel I've aged out of the demographic being aimed at.

 

[prabe]

As I think about it, I don't know that I've ever exactly been 100% whom D&D was being marketed toward. I might be slightly less the target now, but I don't know how much of that is that the range has changed and how much of that is that I have changed. While I'd obviously prefer if they were releasing more material on the lines of what I want, I don't have any severe complaints. Mostly.