D&D General Richard Whitters poll on twitter, "Will you be buying the newest edition of D&D?"

[Desdichado]

I would pit thst down entirely to selection bias, lol, I have not seen that. The reaction to the previews has been quite positive...? I have seen people who Saif they changed their minds from "no" to "yes" based on the previews, I cannot recall seeing anyone go the other way now that art and promo stuff is rolling in.

Well trust me, there's a ton of them even if you don't know you any. (Speaking of selection bias. Not knowing any? That's actually difficult to imagine.) Although I'd probably characterize the ones I know best as WotC sceptics who were "maybes" to begin with, not really "yeses." The kind of people you are describing? I'm sure there's plenty here, but it's hard for me to imagine big clusters of them "out in the wild."

I've also heard anecdotally and second hand from someone laid off at the end of last year that among the WotC rank and file there's a lot of concern about how this new editing is going to be received.

 

[Parmandur]

Well trust me, there's a ton of them even if you don't know you any. (Speaking of selection bias. Not knowing any? That's actually difficult to imagine.) Although I'd probably characterize the ones I know best as WotC sceptics who were "maybes" to begin with, not really "yeses." The kind of people you are describing? I'm sure there's plenty here, but it's hard for me to imagine big clusters of them "out in the wild."

I've also heard anecdotally and second hand from someone laid off at the end of last year that among the WotC rank and file there's a lot of concern about how this new editing is going to be received.

I haven't seen anyone say "I was going to buy, but now I won't because of the art or the changes that were previewed.over the past 2 years in detail". Yet I have seen people who had said "no, I don't intend to buy it" in the thread linked earlier, who changed their mind once they started seeing the actual books.

Dan Dillon has been pretty vocally excited about the new books, when after being laid off.

 

[Stormonu]

That would require people own up to changing their position, which is NEARLY an admission of being wrong.

People dont do that these days.

People have NEVER done that (admit they're wrong).

That's why mistakes keep getting repeated ...

 

[TwoSix]

That would require people own up to changing their position, which is NEARLY an admission of being wrong.

People dont do that these days.

Believe me, I would be super happy if some preview showed me something that would move me from “disappointed” to “interested.”

I have no pride or ownership in staking a position of not wanting to buy the books. I’m merely disappointed in the product line’s current conservatism and unwillingness to innovate.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I saw a D&D 5.5 poll by X user “Stinkycheese69” and most people voted Yes. So I’d say it’s pretty assured it will be popular.

 

[tetrasodium]

I saw a D&D 5.5 poll by X user “Stinkycheese69” and most people voted Yes. So I’d say it’s pretty assured it will be popular.

Except this one is by a named individual with a bio that is rather notable in multiple ways.

"Freelance drawing guy. Previously Art Studio Lead for Dungeons & Dragons, Art Director Larian Studios, and Lead Concept Artist for Magic the Gathering."

 

[Parmandur]

Believe me, I would be super happy if some preview showed me something that would move me from “disappointed” to “interested.”

I have no pride or ownership in staking a position of not wanting to buy the books. I’m merely disappointed in the product line’s current conservatism and unwillingness to innovate.

I mean, they have rewritten all the core Classes, including nearly half the Subclasses being essentially new (3 fully new, but q9 of the "returning" Subclasses are fundamentally new ones). Yes, the core approach is conservative, but Innovation without an eye to keeping what was working tends to not work out well for a game. Slow and steady.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Well trust me, there's a ton of them even if you don't know you any. (Speaking of selection bias. Not knowing any? That's actually difficult to imagine.) Although I'd probably characterize the ones I know best as WotC sceptics who were "maybes" to begin with, not really "yeses." The kind of people you are describing? I'm sure there's plenty here, but it's hard for me to imagine big clusters of them "out in the wild."

I've also heard anecdotally and second hand from someone laid off at the end of last year that among the WotC rank and file there's a lot of concern about how this new editing is going to be received.

Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

It's definitely true that the previews will cause people who are on the fence to waffle in both directions, but nothing is going to decide it for most people one way or the other until the books are actually out and we see how they're really received. Not how twitter/meta/reddit/youtube folks think they will be received. How they are actually received.

 

[mamba]

That would require people own up to changing their position, which is NEARLY an admission of being wrong.

technically the poll was about whether we would be adopting 2024, not whether we buy it

 

[FitzTheRuke]

technically the poll was about whether we would be adopting 2024, not whether we buy it

The difference might be too subtle for me. I mean, I get that there is a difference, but I'm not sure that it's important or significant. Some people might buy it without using it, and some people might play it without buying it, sure. A lot? Probably not.