6E Theories Market Pressure 6e

[Scribe]

Those kids were waiting for you to leave to shoot videos for their sites

Thats what my wife said too, but I choose to believe otherwise.

 

[MGibster]

I get it. Likewise, the overwhelming number of younger 5e players right now would never want to play 1e. Different generations...

I'd rather my wife invited all my exes to my post-colonoscopy recovery than play 1st edition AD&D again.

Focus on the character and the cool/weird backstories they have. I say this because in my observation of the kids I see playing (of which my 10 year old and his friends are some), they aren't really focused on the combat part that was so critical when I was a kid in the early days playing. They care much more about taming that monster and having it as a pet than they do killing it. Therefore...

I have to say it can be quite a delight to play D&D, and most other RPGs for that matter, with novice players. While they might not really understand the game or the rules, they very often look at the game with a different perspective and are willing to try new things.

Pushing the game into digital first, would be an error. I was out of town, and went into one of my typical large book stores, and I was stunned at the number of older teens/young 20s there. They are not buying e-books, and they are FILLING the Fantasy and Sci-Fi section. I couldnt get down some of the rows!

That seems clearly the direction WotC is headed in. I know at my table, all of us at least in our 40s, only two of us do things the old fashioned way while four are using D&D Beyond.

 

[Brendan Byrd]

We're gonna need a new subforum! That's 3 of these threads on the first page of the D&D subforum right now!

Toss ‘em into D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants ???