D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro

[Older Beholder]

To be fair, I'm quite certain the type of gamer I am is currently being actively disabled by the gorilla, not just "no longer being the only focus". Sure, my preferences were never specifically catered to all that much, but it used to be much, much easier to make it work.

Fortunately, there are other games, even other 5e games, that suit me much better than the current official iteration of Dungeons & Dragons. I just wish more people knew about them.

I could have sworn you’ve said the only thing you want from WotC is for them to open up old settings to the DMguild, which is exactly what they’ve been doing. Seems like they cater to you the exact thing you want from them?

 

[UngainlyTitan]

While I see this as pretty hyperbolic if you're referring to my behavior, it sounds very much like you're telling me to stop expressing my feelings.

With all due respect, given that 5e 2024 is my favourite version of the game so far, your expression of your feelings often comes across to me as an expression that my preferred version of the game should not exist.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I could have sworn you’ve said the only thing you want from WotC is for them to open up old settings to the DMguild, which is exactly what they’ve been doing. Seems like they cater to you the exact thing you want from them?

At this point, that's true. Wasn't always the case. I suppose you're right though.

 

[Gradine]

Can we please, collectively, stop acting like teenagers are the only people who could possibly be okay with, let alone like, official D&D art featuring gay characters? Can we please acknowledge that supporting queer representation isn't a generational issue but a cultural issue? And that maybe "I'm not sure I like these gays in my art" is a take that shouldn't really be acceptable in a place like this?

 

[Micah Sweet]

With all due respect, given that 5e 2024 is my favourite version of the game so far, your expression of your feelings often comes across to me as an expression that my preferred version of the game should not exist.

If you didn't like Level Up, do you think I would object to you saying so? People have done so, and I can take it. In the abstract, what you're saying is no one should discuss something they don't like, because someone who does like it might take it poorly. You're welcome to like whatever you want. I'm welcome to not like that same thing.

 

[cranberry]

As any OS player will tell you, the goal of D&D is to circumvent encounters in order to attain gold while using as little resources as possible. Part of smart play was to talk to monsters rather than fight them (as combat is a fail state) usually under the guise of tricking, bribing or hiring them as mercenaries. Fighting cost HP and spells and ran the risk of death. The wise player avoided combat.

So really nothing's changed. Them kids are OS, this just don't realize it

I was a 1E player...

The default position was to fight the monster (or run if it was too powerful).

Talking was almost never an option.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I was a 1E player...

So is a large portion of ENWorld.

The default position was to fight the monster (or run if it was too powerful).

The earliest published AD&D adventures intentionally put PCs in environments where they couldn't hack their way through. You'd need to massively outlevel the G series in order to just fight your way through.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

If you didn't like Level Up, do you think I would object to you saying so? People have done so, and I can take it. In the abstract, what you're saying is no one should discuss something they don't like, because someone who does like it might take it poorly. You're welcome to like whatever you want. I'm welcome to not like that same thing.

I do not, in fact, like Level Up. I also do not post regularly that I do not like level Up. I know that there are people that do like Level Up and I see no reason post that I do not like Level Up repeatedly on various thread on these forums because that would be annoying to other users, and I do not believe that it would contribute in any useful or informative way to so post.
I do not object to its existence and wish EN Publishing all the best on the sales of their product.
Another reason that I do not post that I do not like Level Up is that such a post in a thread such as this, outside of a response to something like your post is that posting such a statement is no contributing in any way to continuing a conversation.
Flat statements of like or dislike that can be agreed with or disagreed with but cannot be argued with, do not provide any basis for a discussion.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I do not, in fact, like Level Up. I also do not post regularly that I do not like level Up. I know that there are people that do like Level Up and I see no reason post that I do not like Level Up repeatedly on various thread on these forums because that would be annoying to other users, and I do not believe that it would contribute in any useful or informative way to so post.
I do not object to its existence and wish EN Publishing all the best on the sales of their product.
Another reason that I do not post that I do not like Level Up is that such a post in a thread such as this, outside of a response to something like your post is that posting such a statement is no contributing in any way to continuing a conversation.
Flat statements of like or dislike that can be agreed with or disagreed with but cannot be argued with, do not provide any basis for a discussion.

Fair enough. I shouldn't be posting right now anyway. Bad mood. I apologize for upsetting you.

 

[Remathilis]

I was a 1E player...

The default position was to fight the monster (or run if it was too powerful).

Talking was almost never an option.

You telling me all those OSR people who tell me the adventure wasn't about killing everything in sight were lying?!?