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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5531895" data-attributes="member: 82106">From my perspective D&D has been around for 37 years now (and I guess I've been playing it pretty much all that time with a few breaks). There have been times when the game has changed directions somewhat, times when the owners have sort of drifted along, times when they have been highly energetic, times when they've put out high quality stuff, and times when they've put out lower quality stuff or less stuff. The game has continued to exist in all of these various times and has always fulfilled its basic purpose. I just don't see where it is today as a big deal one way or the other. In fact I think overall it is in a pretty good place. The existing edition of the game is very solid, there's a LOT of material supporting it, and that material is mostly pretty high quality. Beyond that the game has actually advanced pretty rapidly overall into the digital realm. WotC moved a very big leap forward with 4e and DDI. Looking at it from any kind of wide perspective this has been quite remarkable. 4e itself is only 3 years old, same for DDI. In the perspective of 37 years of D&D this is a relatively short period of time. Even if we put the worst possible spin on where WotC is right now I just don't see it as a big deal. D&D is strong. D&D will continue. D&D will continue to evolve. Maybe some of the things being done with it now are dead ends. So what? People get way too focused on whatever is happening this month or this year and lose perspective on the big picture. Heck, any of you would have peed your pants to have the DDI we have right now today 5 years ago. Quit comparing things to hypotheticals that have never existed. It is a niche product. We can all dream of what the possibilities would be in a grand fantasy world where D&D had a zillion bucks to spend to do everything everyone could possibly dream of. It never has been that way and it never will be.Beyond that how much of an actual difference does it make to people playing the game what is going on in WotC HQ right now? We all have plenty of good solid 4e material to use and some very nice and convenient online tools. If they spend a year or two slacking off some and releasing stuff you're not that interested in, well it isn't the first time that's happened and we all just kept on enjoying our games. All the angst just seems not worth it to me. I just don't care. I'm going to keep running my games. I have better stuff than I have ever had before overall and I could hardly be happier. Sure it is fun to nitpick the latest splatbook or whatever, but in the long run none of that matters much. D&D jumped the shark, there is no shark.</blockquote>

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