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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9393927" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I feel like I should also point out something else. Most people here probably don't watch DnD Shorts. Content creator on Youtube, like the guy's energy if not always his rules takes. He has been going over the 2024 material and he has a bit of advice for people... Do not pre-order. Not because WoTC is going to entrap you with golden chains of consumerism, but because there is no penalty to waiting until the books are released, and content creators have reviewed them. You lose nothing. [I lose something, cause I want them ASAP, but that is a personal failing]. He also points out that if you want to try many of the new rules and see if you like them... the playtest documents are free online and people have discussed them extensively. IF someone truly truly wanted to... they could likely cobble together DnD 2024 by the end of 2025 by just watching Treantmonk and like three other channels. And the thing is, as long as this hasn't hurt WoTC's ability to make money off of the 2024 books, which I doubt it will... then the next big rules change will likely ALSO come with a public playtest and the same thing will happen again. With how the DnD community is structured, and how the game of DnD works, you can't truly paywall DnD. Sure CoD 2025 is digital only and when Ubisoft or EA or whoever decides to wreck the game which they first sold to you as a buggy mess that barely worked for $250 at early access with golden skins you can do nothing about it... because once the servers hosting the game are gone, you can't play the game. But you can play DnD without the rulebook at the table. Once your campaign is started, as long as you know the options for level up... you can't stop people from playing it. So... the video game industry situation just logically doesn't make sense for how DnD and the DnD community operate.</blockquote>

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