D&D General Do THIS, WotC!

I'm a simple moogle. I enjoyed Innistrad, I enjoyed Theros, I enjoyed Ixalan, Amonkhet, and Strixhaven...now I would love to see:

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Even if it's just another little free Plane Shift .pdf, I wouldn't complain.
 
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For the life of me, I just don't understand why WotC didn't years (or decades) ago offer a simpler variant, even bringing back "Basic" vs. "Advanced," but in a more literal sense.

I suppose, maybe, they didn't want to confuse people, or compete against themselves. But I think a more "basic D&D" could potentially be very popular, and give a stronger on-ramp to the fuller game (but wouldn't have to).
They were apparently considering doing that in 2014, with the plan being to label the Core books as "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"...but discovered during market research that it was a major turn off and people didn't like the idea.

The Basic/Advanced framework probably was always a terrible idea that hurt TSR.
 


For the life of me, I just don't understand why WotC didn't years (or decades) ago offer a simpler variant, even bringing back "Basic" vs. "Advanced," but in a more literal sense.

I suppose, maybe, they didn't want to confuse people, or compete against themselves. But I think a more "basic D&D" could potentially be very popular, and give a stronger on-ramp to the fuller game (but wouldn't have to).
There's only so many D&D players. So having Basic and Advanced does nothing but split the playerbase.

It's not even "Self-Competing", really. It's just a matter of making it needlessly harder to find a table as a player, or players as a DM.
 






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