D&D 5E Light release schedule: More harm than good?

[Sailor Moon]

They own the game. You don't. That's what makes them more right than you when it comes to how they should handle it.

Where in the space of logic does it mean ownership of something makes you right?

 

[Sailor Moon]

So basically they are going to go down the road where in order to get specific content, you are going to have to purchase the AP, even though you know you're not going to run it.

 

[aramis erak]

The market hasn't gone in that direction. Just look at Paizo.

Yes they stick with the same campaign setting, but their stuff can be used anywhere and they churn out a good amount of product.

90% of the people who want that crap left for Pathfinder and didn't look back until after the surveying was done.

 

[I'm A Banana]

What makes them more right than I? You don't know who I am or what I do for a living.

Reasonably confident you don't work at WotC and thus you aren't privy to the same level of information that they are. You've got the same general ignorance the rest of us got.

I've been a long time customer who has probably lasted longer than any employee currently with the company. WoTc don't know everything I'm afraid. There is still a human being, or beings, behind it all.

They don't need to know everything, they just need to know more than random people on the internet, and I'm reasonably confident that they do.

I've been around this stuff in all shapes and sizes to have learned a thing or two, and I have a bit of common sense and good observation skills. I've always had a knack for "calling it" on many topics.

Yeah, I'll take their information and direct investment in the outcome over your "knack" and vague, nonspecific "skills" any day. But I tend to trust people with demonstrable expertise. Call it a bias.

 

[DongMaster]

But I tend to trust people with demonstrable expertise. Call it a bias.

Would you hold it against me if I called it common sense?

 

[Trickster Spirit]

So basically they are going to go down the road where in order to get specific content, you are going to have to purchase the AP, even though you know you're not going to run it.

Or, you know, download it for free. Heck, print it out and stick it in a binder, or have Lulu.com bind it into a book for you for less than what you'd have paid for the splatbook if you're just dying to spend some money on it.

 

[dream66_]

It's going to be OK. Hit up DriveThru RPG. Look for generic adventures or maps. There's like 5 million products to choose from (I exaggerate a tad, but there's PILES of 'em...). Now, buy one or two, set some 5e adventuring shenanigans to the new hotness. Go Play. Wash - Rinse - Repeat. Before you know it, you have loving validation and consumerist bliss in the next 5e release.

But I don't want adventures? I make my adventures up myself. I have crazy ideas, and my worlds don't match well with FR so the published adventures aren't that useful. I'm looking for more rules, more classes, more races, more feats more spells, moar more!

So dndclassics doesn't help me there, and with WOTC promising adventures, that doesn't promise bliss in the next 5e release either.

Now true, I'm getting free rules content online. That's nice, I'm not afraid to pay, I'm STILL subscribed to DDI they're getting my money. What I am afraid of is the history I've seen they planned books for Alternity, then surprise put them free online, and canceled the line, they planned books for 4e, then put them free online and canceled the line.

I'm afraid that this is the sign they won't do any more rules modules after this and I really need my psionics.

 

[Sigbjorn_86]

They just released 5 books since August. There is a huge, 300+ adventure slated for March. They're planning on giving out new material, for free, on the web. I don't see how this can be called a "light" release schedule. In all likelihood the team wanted to gauge the response to the core books before they planned too far ahead. The DMG just came out last month, and it takes time to plan new products.

 

[Mistwell]

What makes them more right than I? You don't know who I am or what I do for a living. I've been a long time customer who has probably lasted longer than any employee currently with the company. WoTc don't know everything I'm afraid. There is still a human being, or beings, behind it all.

I've been around this stuff in all shapes and sizes to have learned a thing or two, and I have a bit of common sense and good observation skills. I've always had a knack for "calling it" on many topics.

They are professionals. They do this all day, every day, and have for many many years. If the 10,000 hour rule is real, they've achieved it (and the Paizo employees mostly came from there as well). They know other professionals in the industry. Many who work there, have worked there for a very long time. They have access to a great deal of information you do not have access to. If you are better at their job than they are, you should have gravitated to be working there long ago. The fact you didn't suggests you do not have their level of expertise in that field. You are of course free to comment and speculate and depend on your knack all you want...but of course the rest of us are free to view it however we choose, and I am choosing to view your comment as the thoughts of a person who does not know just how much he or she does not know, and who has never had to provide results in the field of RPG design and publishing.

Further, even in a world where you did somehow know how to do the job of professional RPG designers and publishers better than the professionals having never done it yourself, how would we know that, and why would we take your word for it? We don't know you, as you say. Given the word of an actual professional in that field versus a stranger, wouldn't YOU take the word of the professional over the random stranger? I mean, if I tell you I know better than you, because I have experience and knack, would you simply nod and agree I must be right even if it goes against your instincts? If not...why do you think we'd react different to you when you do that?

 

[Gecko85]

I'm afraid that this is the sign they won't do any more rules modules after this and I really need my psionics.

So, for now, make your own. There's already a ton of fan-made rules, classes, monsters, etc.