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

[Lanefan]

It's all D&D to me.
Ever since I bought the red box and the hardcover books ages ago.
On a more serious note, will there be punch and pie in this little riot of ours?

Punch and eye, more like, if they don't capitulate quietly.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Interestingly (to me, at least) after making the statement (a few posts back now) that I have never heard anyone say "Five-five" (nor previously "Three-Five") but always with an obvious stress on the word "point", I just listened to a podcast where someone (it was either Mikes Mearls or Shea, but I can't remrmber) called 3.5 "Three-Five".

Must be a regional thing. I had no idea!

 

[AlViking]

Both r/onednd and r/dndnext were made during the playtest periods.

OneDnD was also never supposed to be the name of the version. It was a label for all the initiatives going on at the time. Companies use labels like that all the time.

What's funny is that they tried to avoid putting a version label on the game but everybody was calling it 5e. Now once again they don't want to put a version label on the release and people keep wanting to add one.

 

[Corinnguard]

On a more serious note, will there be punch and pie in this little riot of ours?

It's a food fight, isn't it?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

OneDnD was also never supposed to be the name of the version. It was a label for all the initiatives going on at the time. Companies use labels like that all the time.

They did a terrible job of communicating that initially. I don't blame a lot of fans for being confused.

 

[Faolyn]

I hate my phone.

5.5 is quick and easy. Look at your typos in your post lol.

5E2024 is a pain to type.

And I'm the king of typos around here. When I'm done with this phone its getting executed probably with a golf club.

Inertia, consistency and convenience.

I just say 5.24 and 5.14.

 

[Faolyn]

Personally, I don't see any of this as that much of a problem. One of the prime considerations already when jumping to another table these days is what system - never mind what houserules - they're using, so this feels like you're just taking that which has been the case since D&D was invented and painting it as a new issue.

Flip side: when I come up with a houserule my only consideration is what works for my game and my table right here, right now. I don't - and have no good reason to - give a flying eff what anyone external to our game thinks of it.

The only place where hard-coded rules consistency across tables makes sense - to a point - is "organized play" such as AL, where table-hopping is an intentionally baked-in element of how it works.

And obviously people are going to think their own houserules are better, because otherwise they wouldn't be using those houserules. Again, a non-issue.

OK, I've seen that huge collection of house rules your table uses. It's practically a brand new game that's only vaguely based on AD&D. Do you honestly think that might not be a turn off to people who thought they were getting into a regular AD&D game?

 

[popuman]

Punch and eye, more like, if they don't capitulate quietly.

It's a food fight, isn't it?

“By all means necessary”.

 

[Umbran]

On a more serious note, will there be punch and pie in this little riot of ours?

You want to punch the orc to get the pie? Roll for initiative.

 

[Umbran]

What's funny is that they tried to avoid putting a version label on the game but everybody was calling it 5e. Now once again they don't want to put a version label on the release and people keep wanting to add one.

Yeah, well, "they" don't really need the label, as all work goes to whatever is current.

"We", who have the choice of which we are using, need the label.