D&D (2024) What would change for you if Wizards started calling it 6E?

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

I wonder how long it will be before D&D becomes a truly virtual experience similar to what the characters in the Sword Art Online anime experienced. Sword Art Online - Wikipedia Or Ready Player One, for that matter.

Yeah I have had enough bad experiences with guys (always guys who identify as guys) trying to sexualize the game against other's will. I can't imagine how worse that would be in VR.

and note I said against others will, I have 0 issue with us handling mature content like sex and sexuality, when we choose to we normally handle it as well as you would expect a 13 year old to (none of us are younger then 21 and some are in there 50s but mentality we are all 13)

 

[Vaalingrade]

I wonder how long it will be before D&D becomes a truly virtual experience similar to what the characters in the Sword Art Online anime experienced. Sword Art Online - Wikipedia Or Ready Player One, for that matter.

Complete with a dev going spare and straight killing some players in the game.

 

[cranberry]

Nothing.

As a matter of fact, I would be in favor of an edition designation.

Ever flowing/changing updates to 5E will only lead to confusion in the long run.

"So, are we playing by the 1/1/24 updated rules, the 6/12/25 updated rules, or the 9/27/26 updated rules?"...

 

[ART!]

If it goes streaming, we can all look forward to a time when they start pulling content so they don't have to pay royalties or residuals or whatever.

 

[payn]

my buddy who works in government always says a quote from some movie "Everytime people tell me we are becoming a paperless society I get 2 new forms to fill out, sometimes in triplicate."
the books may be PDFs but they are still books. I think we are still a long way off just streaming info.

I was thinking DDB and VTT. Pretty disruptive to have to reprogram that from the ground up every three years or so.

 

[Clint_L]

my buddy who works in government always says a quote from some movie "Everytime people tell me we are becoming a paperless society I get 2 new forms to fill out, sometimes in triplicate."
the books may be PDFs but they are still books. I think we are still a long way off just streaming info.

On the other hand, at my formerly paper-full job (teacher) I now use maybe 10% of the paper I did just a few years ago, and that's only because of a few assessments that need to be handwritten. Everything else is done online. Of my five current classes, three have not seen a single sheet of paper this year. And my spouse is a high-level government worker, working primarily from home, and again barely touches paper - our printer hasn't worked in months and we keep forgetting to fix it because it never gets used. So things are changing in some places.

Similarly, all my D&D campaigns are on DDB (not PDFs), and the only time we use paper is if I want to print out a clue or map or something. At school, none of the kids in my current campaign even own dice or want to borrow mine.

Edit: I asked at the office and our paper use overall has declined roughly 70% since the start of the pandemic.

 

[mamba]

I was thinking DDB and VTT. Pretty disruptive to have to reprogram that from the ground up every three years or so.

you won’t need to. 95% stays the same regardless of ruleset. Most of it is data driven, you just need to support some new cases in code that did not exist before at all and do not fit the existing templates

 

[ART!]

I had been heavily DDB-focused for years, and was buying gaming stuff as just pdfs, but for the past year or so I've leaned back heavily toward paper character sheets - my current character is written by hand in the 5.5x8.5" sketchbook I always take to games - and printed books. I realized that I'n very "out of sight, out of mind", so the pdfs kind of cease to exist. I still use them for reading when I'm on-the-go, though.

 

[payn]

you won’t need to. 95% stays the same regardless of ruleset. Most of it is data driven, you just need to support some new cases in code that did not exist before at all and do not fit the existing templates

I think that largely depends on the changes.

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

I was thinking DDB and VTT. Pretty disruptive to have to reprogram that from the ground up every three years or so.

except if they are losing money it would make more sense to scrap and start over.