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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9119173" data-attributes="member: 18">That's probably true, given that they hired Dan Rawson to run D&amp;D, and his primary area of expertise and experience is converting people to digital subscriptions.I very much doubt they're modifying 5E to resemble BG3, but only because the management layer seems to largely disconnected from specific decisions re: mechanics. They seem to be strongly connected re: tone and general approach, and it's possible they're reconsidering those, because they're absolutely at odds with BG3 (which is essentially R-rated, where WotC has been pushing D&amp;D pretty hard towards PG, not even PG-13), but I don't really see how that would be reflected in the mechanics of a playtest.Now, if WotC's management were a bit more on the ball, and a bit more forward-thinking, they would be looking at BG3 and thinking &quot;Do people find this approach to mechanics, which is more permissive (and frankly has a better martial/caster balance than 5E - very much including 2024 - does), to be more attractive and fun?&quot;. And I suspect the answer for the vast majority of people who play D&amp;D would be &quot;Absolutely, yes, it is preferred&quot;. However, I suspect the answer for the 20K to 40K mostly-grogs who answer the survey is &quot;No&quot;, because they're generally opposed to change, and particularly to martial classes being improved meaningfully (one of the reasons the weapon actions got a positive result was that most of them seem fairly weak, and it's clear from discussions here and elsewhere that a lot of posters just didn't grok how OP a couple of them are).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9119173, member: 18"] That's probably true, given that they hired Dan Rawson to run D&D, and his primary area of expertise and experience is converting people to digital subscriptions. I very much doubt they're modifying 5E to resemble BG3, but only because the management layer seems to largely disconnected from specific decisions re: mechanics. They seem to be strongly connected re: tone and general approach, and it's possible they're reconsidering those, because they're absolutely at odds with BG3 (which is essentially R-rated, where WotC has been pushing D&D pretty hard towards PG, not even PG-13), but I don't really see how that would be reflected in the mechanics of a playtest. Now, if WotC's management were a bit more on the ball, and a bit more forward-thinking, they would be looking at BG3 and thinking "Do people find this approach to mechanics, which is more permissive (and frankly has a better martial/caster balance than 5E - very much including 2024 - does), to be more attractive and fun?". And I suspect the answer for the vast majority of people who play D&D would be "Absolutely, yes, it is preferred". However, I suspect the answer for the 20K to 40K mostly-grogs who answer the survey is "No", because they're generally opposed to change, and particularly to martial classes being improved meaningfully (one of the reasons the weapon actions got a positive result was that most of them seem fairly weak, and it's clear from discussions here and elsewhere that a lot of posters just didn't grok how OP a couple of them are). [/QUOTE]

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