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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8425224" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I'm also not excited about any of these, however, I am pretty keen to see the new monster book, though the whole selling it as part of a boxed set thing is crummy behaviour, and only forgiven because perhaps it's mostly a production issue. If they do it again it will not be forgiven.</p><p></p><p>I am also excited to hear about the new settings and potentially interested in other stuff.</p><p></p><p>I think with these I just find them specifically boring. Dragons have never excited me, I feel like they're overexposed and it doesn't sound like Fizban adds any new ideas or takes. I'd buy a Feywild setting book but am unmoved by a big top/funfair (puke) themed adventure. Not much I dislike more aesthetically than that. Yeah I did NOT enjoy The Greatest Showman, thanks! As for the magic college, I'm not a Harry Potter fan, nor an MtG fan, I went to the sort of school that has "houses" (less fun than it might sound), and without the more daring mechanical stuff they were trying, it doesn't appeal.</p><p></p><p>So long as there is an audience,and I certainly believe there is for all three, particularly the magic college, and WotC isn't TSRing itself, I'm okay with just an unlucky line up of books.</p><p></p><p>If they manage to compound this by, say, a pure Spelljammer setting (yawn), and then failure to provide either a full Planescape (no Manual of the Planes nonsense will be acceptable if they go all in on SJ) or Dark Sun (either with a Psion or the setting reworked in a genuinely cool way that preserves the key themes) well, I may take a break until 5.5/6E, at least DMing-wise.</p><p></p><p>So I guess for me it's not exactly knife edge and it's not burnout, but if they keep boring me, I won't be picking stuff up. So long as a significant proportion of the audience does, cool. I do slightly worry they might still TSR themselves though no doubt less severely, but the long term consequences could actually be worse for D&D if they did it as part of Hasbro and having been a massive profit center. I think it would take a ton of mistakes for multiple years to do that. That or the D&D movie being so bad it's embarrassing for young people to be associated with D&D lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8425224, member: 18"] I'm also not excited about any of these, however, I am pretty keen to see the new monster book, though the whole selling it as part of a boxed set thing is crummy behaviour, and only forgiven because perhaps it's mostly a production issue. If they do it again it will not be forgiven. I am also excited to hear about the new settings and potentially interested in other stuff. I think with these I just find them specifically boring. Dragons have never excited me, I feel like they're overexposed and it doesn't sound like Fizban adds any new ideas or takes. I'd buy a Feywild setting book but am unmoved by a big top/funfair (puke) themed adventure. Not much I dislike more aesthetically than that. Yeah I did NOT enjoy The Greatest Showman, thanks! As for the magic college, I'm not a Harry Potter fan, nor an MtG fan, I went to the sort of school that has "houses" (less fun than it might sound), and without the more daring mechanical stuff they were trying, it doesn't appeal. So long as there is an audience,and I certainly believe there is for all three, particularly the magic college, and WotC isn't TSRing itself, I'm okay with just an unlucky line up of books. If they manage to compound this by, say, a pure Spelljammer setting (yawn), and then failure to provide either a full Planescape (no Manual of the Planes nonsense will be acceptable if they go all in on SJ) or Dark Sun (either with a Psion or the setting reworked in a genuinely cool way that preserves the key themes) well, I may take a break until 5.5/6E, at least DMing-wise. So I guess for me it's not exactly knife edge and it's not burnout, but if they keep boring me, I won't be picking stuff up. So long as a significant proportion of the audience does, cool. I do slightly worry they might still TSR themselves though no doubt less severely, but the long term consequences could actually be worse for D&D if they did it as part of Hasbro and having been a massive profit center. I think it would take a ton of mistakes for multiple years to do that. That or the D&D movie being so bad it's embarrassing for young people to be associated with D&D lol. [/QUOTE]
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