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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8528774" data-attributes="member: 86653">No. Not at all. You can engage with the "IP holder" in various ways. Collecting every single book and playing the game exactly as it's written despite your personal preferences is only one of a myriad of options. And the "community as a whole" is not limited to only the newest releases from WotC. Sure, I guess some people who view D&D as a lifestyle brand rather than an RPG to play and/or a hobby to engage with might view things that way, but that mindset is utterly alien to me. Besides, if it's only a brand, used for show, it shouldn't matter what's actually in the books.That seems to be the arguments we're getting into a lot lately. Some change is made and someone on the forum complains and it's a whole thread about how no one's forcing Johnny Rando to use every word that WotC publishes. So clearly a lot of people seem to think that they have to use it all exactly as written. Otherwise there'd be nothing to complain about. WotC produced a product you don't like? Don't buy it and don't use it. There, done. Literally zero reason to complain. Yet here we are.Sure. I guess it mostly depends on where people are emotionally invested. I am emotionally invested in the game as played at the table. I've been doing this for almost 40 years. I couldn't care less what WotC does or doesn't produce. The entire "industry" could collapse tomorrow and I'd still have more game material on my shelves than I'll ever be able to use at the table. All the older editions are still there. All the retro-clones are still there. All the 3PP for all the editions are still there. All the home-brew stuff me and mine have created over the decades is still there. All the freely available home-brew stuff on the internet is still there. I don't need anything from WotC. And I don't need WotC to produce only books that cater specifically and exactly to me and my tastes. When they put out a book I'm interested in, I'll have a look. That's the end of it. Do people honestly think complaining and whining on the internet will get WotC to make books they like? Is that really their hope? That if they whine loud enough for WotC to hear, they'll get rewarded with a pat on the head.So don't buy them. They can either buy the book or not. That's the sum total of their input in the decision of what WotC produces. Whining about it accomplishes literally nothing. Don't like where WotC is going with 5E in the future? Don't follow. Stick with the 5E you already have. Don't like 5E, try any of the eight other editions of D&D or a different game entirely. This kind of thing is somehow common across fandoms. People whining about it not catering to them specifically. If you don't like it, move on. Simple as.</blockquote>

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