DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Yeah, I've never played Pathfinder (1 or 2), but from browsing the books it doesn't seem really gritty to me. I would like to see 5E a bit more grittier and some of our house-rules reflect that.
D&D (2024) Is 5th edition too big for there to be a 6th edition?
To be fair, the "modular D&D" version of 5E was in fact vaporware. We did not get that. The game we got was probably better than that would have been, but even so.
One problem with the thesis of the OP is that it presumes this current boom isn't a fluke. I don't think we can presume that. It's based on a lot of things that are very "right now."That suggests a pretty good likelihood of bust in the relatively near future as the drivers of the boom switch gears.Sure, there are a lot of GenXers who have returned to the game (some of us never left) but all those GenZ kids are just as likely to find a different hobby, or realize just how narrow D&D is in the context of the broader roleplaying hobby.
I think we are on the back side of the zeitgeist, personally.
theapoapostolov
Explorer
I completely agree. In fact, the balanced power level and design language of 5E allows to make 5E gritter and HEMA-authentic far easier than Pathfinder 1e or 2e. I know for a fact, since I do that as a main project.
I suspect the word @robus was looking for was actually "granular," rather than "gritty."
That said, it's worth noting that even Pathfinder is getting a second edition, after all this time.
"Gritty" 5E requires a pretty fundamental change in its treatment of wounds, healing and death.
cmad1977
Hero
Haha. I handed my heard that. I was told often here that D&D was dying in the vine because WoTC didn’t release a splatbook per month.
Been a slooooooooow death so far.
I was thinking crunchy, but wrote gritty
MechaTarrasque
Hero
If the movie is a big seller and if things in the movie are different from in the game (and since this is a Hasbro movie, that's pretty likely), then they will phantom introduce 6e that is more like the movie.
