D&D (2024) Does anyone else think that 1D&D will create a significant divide in the community?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean, no one sells AD&D stuff anymore, but I bet you I could start a game of it anyways.

The second-largest D&D message board community is dedicated to TSR-era D&D, so yeah.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Don’t see it happening

 

[mamba]

I knew strong-arm tactics would enter into this eventually.

yeah, like no longer printing the 2014 PHB... wow, what other product ever went out of print or is no longer playing at movie theatres, totally unheard of

 

[GMforPowergamers]

it already has... just look at the arguments on here.

 

[Micah Sweet]

yeah, like no longer printing the 2014 PHB... wow, what other product ever went out of print or is no longer playing at movie theatres, totally unheard of

I refer to the tactics of pressuring people to conform to a new "standard" by actively making it difficult to continue with the old one. Just because it's commonly done doesn't make it good.

 

[mamba]

I refer to the tactics of pressuring people to conform to a new "standard" by actively making it difficult to continue with the old one. Just because it's commonly done doesn't make it good.

the example given makes perfect sense for a store trying to sell you products. No one is forcing you to play 1DD, heck clearly no one is forcing you to play WotC’s 5e either, but if you want to play in a store, you literally play by their rules, just like a restaurant can refuse service, or any other shop for that matter.

You cannot play 1e, 3e or 4e there either and no one complained, they just stay consistent with their existing policy.

Also, no longer printing 2014 PHBs is not forcing you to move to 2024 PHBs either, since presumably you already own them. It just means new players will be introduced to the current version of the game, pretty much just like at any other time during the last 50 years, so nothing changed there either.

 

[Micah Sweet]

the example given makes perfect sense for a store trying to sell you products. No one is forcing you to play 1DD, heck clearly no one is forcing you to play WotC’s 5e either, but if you want to play in a store, you literally play by their rules, just like a restaurant can refuse service, or any other shop for that matter.

You cannot play 1e, 3e or 4e there either and no one complained, they just stay consistent with their existing policy.

Also, no longer printing 2014 PHBs is not forcing you to move to 2024 PHBs either, since presumably you already own them. It just means new players will be introduced to the current version of the game, pretty much just like at any other time during the last 50 years, so nothing changed there either.

At least the store is treating it as the new edition it is. There's comfort in that.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I refer to the tactics of pressuring people to conform to a new "standard" by actively making it difficult to continue with the old one. Just because it's commonly done doesn't make it good.

In a cold-blooded way, it never does anyone any good to split their market, and almost every business knows that.

 

[Micah Sweet]

In a cold-blooded way, it never does anyone any good to split their market, and almost every business knows that.

Well, I'm not a cold-blooded person (not saying you are, of course) and tend not to think of things primarily in terms of profit.

 

[mamba]

At least the store is treating it as the new edition it is. There's comfort in that.

no, they are treating it as ‘these are the books we have on our shelves / for sale’, that says nothing about what edition this is