WotC WotC needs an Elon Musk

[Scribe]

@Justice and Rule ah I see, and looking over their home page, is...a thing.

Imagine a world, where we have some kind of media that just you know...operates with some kind of nuance and understanding instead of pushing one way or the other to the extremes....

 

[Mallus]

Bounding Into Comics is basically “oh noes, comics are too brown and queer now”, isn’t it? One of the pasty misshapen sons of Gamergate.

 

[Justice and Rule]

@Justice and Rule ah I see, and looking over their home page, is...a thing.

Imagine a world, where we have some kind of media that just you know...operates with some kind of nuance and understanding instead of pushing one way or the other to the extremes....

I mean, I generally find things to be okay in that regard. But there is a very big desire for "Outrage Media", and they definitely fall into that sort of category. The problem is that you might not know it if you aren't familiar, which is why I edited my original post.

Bounding Into Comics is basically “oh noes, comics are too brown and queer now”, isn’t it. Son of Gamergate.

Yeah, pretty much. I'm guessing you could find a book's worth of Brie Larson articles in their archive.

 

[Mallus]

I'm guessing you could find a book's worth of Brie Larson articles in their archive.

Brie Larson sings an amazing version of Metric’s ”Black Sheep” in Scott Pilgrim, therefore criticizing her excessively is objectively wrong.

(she’s also fine as Ms. Marvel)

 

[Vaalingrade]

Have you seen D&D's hardcore fans?

We prove time and time again the correct choice is to ignore us.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Granted it is a lot more work than the simple-minded folks at WotC going ah I guess Tiamat is Takhisis.

this has been the case since 2e.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Have you seen D&D's hardcore fans?

We prove time and time again the correct choice is to ignore us.

The more hardcore, the more ignore!

(It even rhymes!)

 

[AnotherGuy]

this has been the case since 2e.

This has already been replied to. It is still lazy design IMO. You may not agree - that is fine.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Then you're just building a half dozen different RPGs that have the same general resolution mechanics. And that's fine if you want D&D to be the functional equivalent to GURPs or Genesys.

I'd actually be fine with that.

 

[AnotherGuy]

@Remathilis @Whizbang Dustyboots @Azzy
I'm not going to respond to each of your posts, instead I'm going to show you how I would have done it if I were at WotC and I have posted this elsewhere so you may have already read it.

The way I see it with 5e, since they want to go the route of the original world being shattered and aspects appeared of the dragon goddess within the multiverse, is that...

There indeed was 1 Chromatic Dragon Goddess (name perhaps lost in time). Her universe shattered and aspects of her splintered into the multiverse. The Forgotten Realm's aspect took on the name Tiamat. The DL aspect took on the name Takhisis. They evolved within their respective universes. Although their heritage is the same, they are indeed different beings. They both have some common traits but they are for all intents and purposes different creatures.

Think Michael Keaton from Multiplicity. The original Michael Keaton is destroyed, only the copies now remain but they are indeed different beings. WotC definitely dropped the ball on this IMO. WotC going Tiamat = Takhisis is about as creative (and respectful) as David Benioff's and D.B. Weiss's storyline for Dorne, which is to say not at all.

EDIT: Like it or not many if not most of the DL fans came to the setting via the novels. When I'm talking about creators of the setting - for me it would be the authors. I read way more novels than I did DL gaming product. We can agree to disagree if it was lazy or whatever. But every edition adds new lore or amends old lore. They could have fixed the 2e Tiamat = Takhisis. They decided not to and I'm calling that lazy.