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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 9604841" data-attributes="member: 6667921">Sure, and that was a general shift that players discovered for themselves by actually playing and deciding if this edition was right for them. But D&amp;D has always had dials that could be adjusted because it supported not one style or tone of play, but all of them, so everyone could play how they wanted. This shift, which has been getting more and more obvious with every year since they released 5e, is pushing towards a favored or preferred style a play without expressly telling anyone they can't do it another way. It's just getting harder to do so now then it used to with little things, like happy-go-lucky pictures of characters living a carefree life in a world full of monsters, who are now no more threatening than a saturday morning cartoon henchman.But when you tell D&amp;D fans who've played for decades that the game is no longer suitable for them anymore, what's the message you're really sending, other than just a polite dismissal to go play somewhere else? Or to suggest something almost every veteran player knows what to do to make the game play differently to cater to their own needs? No one forgot how to do that. They don't suggest they forgot how to do that. It's simply getting harder each time to do that. Has nobody considered why that is? Well, not the ones who don't see a need to do it themselves, so they're not going to give much thought anyway. But thank you for your advice that nobody was asking for. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jacob Lewis, post: 9604841, member: 6667921"] Sure, and that was a general shift that players discovered for themselves by actually playing and deciding if this edition was right for them. But D&D has always had dials that could be adjusted because it supported not [I]one[/I] style or tone of play, but [I]all[/I] of them, so everyone could play how they wanted. This shift, which has been getting more and more obvious with every year since they released 5e, is pushing towards a [I]favored[/I] or [I]preferred[/I] style a play without expressly telling anyone they can't do it another way. It's just getting harder to do so now then it used to with little things, like happy-go-lucky pictures of characters living a carefree life in a world full of monsters, who are now no more threatening than a saturday morning cartoon henchman. But when you tell D&D fans who've played for decades that the game is no longer suitable for them anymore, what's the message you're really sending, other than just a polite dismissal to go play somewhere else? Or to suggest something almost every veteran player [I]knows[/I] what to do to make the game play differently to cater to their own needs? No one forgot how to do that. They don't suggest they [I]forgot[/I] how to do that. It's simply getting harder each time to do that. Has nobody considered [I]why[/I] that is? Well, not the ones who don't see a need to do it themselves, so they're not going to give much thought anyway. But thank you for your advice that nobody was asking for. :) [/QUOTE]

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