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<blockquote data-quote="aiouh" data-source="post: 9783733" data-attributes="member: 7050706">&quot;Why does D&amp;D do new things?&quot;Because old things already exist. Nobody is stopping you from playing them. They're on DTRPG. There's a bajillion remixes of the original D&amp;D that try to harken back to the &quot;golden age&quot; filled with rough line art sketches and deadly monsters. Big Hasbro isn't suppressing them or pursuing them legally. The original PDFs of 1e B/X are basically directly googleable (depending on your jurisdiction)To offer a car analogy &quot;Why does BMW focus on Electric Vehicles so much? ENWorld needs to rescue BMW and return it to its roots&quot;Because the Z4 Petrol Roadster exists since 2003. It has been refined over the years over 3 generations and creatively, they pretty much exhausted that route. They still sell it but they won't promote it as much, because people who wanted the Z4 got one by now and there's not much to improve on it. But Z4 owners might feel miffed that its not front and center of promotional material and some how a &quot;snub&quot; on people who enjoy Z4s, which is a false premise.What I feel like a lot of chronically online D&amp;D fans want is validation. They want WotC to say:&quot;This is the right way to play D&amp;D. You are having fun the correct way.&quot; and in turn believing that D&amp;D making promotional materials featuring a lighter and more lgbtq+ friendly vision of it says that &quot;the old ways are wrong, you are enjoying D&amp;D wrong if you DON'T base your campaign around queer weddings&quot;. This is however a false premise. These things can totally coexist in parallel.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aiouh, post: 9783733, member: 7050706"] "Why does D&D do new things?" Because old things already exist. Nobody is stopping you from playing them. They're on DTRPG. There's a bajillion remixes of the original D&D that try to harken back to the "golden age" filled with rough line art sketches and deadly monsters. Big Hasbro isn't suppressing them or pursuing them legally. The original PDFs of 1e B/X are basically directly googleable (depending on your jurisdiction) To offer a car analogy "Why does BMW focus on Electric Vehicles so much? ENWorld needs to rescue BMW and return it to its roots" Because the Z4 Petrol Roadster exists since 2003. It has been refined over the years over 3 generations and creatively, they pretty much exhausted that route. They still sell it but they won't promote it as much, because people who wanted the Z4 got one by now and there's not much to improve on it. But Z4 owners might feel miffed that its not front and center of promotional material and some how a "snub" on people who enjoy Z4s, which is a false premise. What I feel like a lot of chronically online D&D fans want is validation. They want WotC to say:"This is the right way to play D&D. You are having fun the correct way." and in turn believing that D&D making promotional materials featuring a lighter and more lgbtq+ friendly vision of it says that "the old ways are wrong, you are enjoying D&D wrong if you DON'T base your campaign around queer weddings". This is however a false premise. These things can totally coexist in parallel. [/QUOTE]

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