D&D 5E WotC to increase releases per year?

[teitan]

Last time I looked at an atlas Canada was part of North America.

Yeah but Americans means United States in general or is this one of those where general experience doesn’t matter because maybe five people didn’t do it that way?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah but Americans means United States in general.

No, Americans means anyone from the continents of North and South America. Just as European means anyone from the continent of Europe, and that includes the English, whether they like it or not.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

No, Americans means anyone from the continents of North and South America. Just as European means anyone from the continent of Europe, and that includes the English, whether they like it or not.

I'm Canadian, and I will assure you if you call me American I will absolutely correct you. Americans are from the US and that's it. There is no blanket word for people who come from the "Americas."

 

[Mercurius]

No, Americans means anyone from the continents of North and South America. Just as European means anyone from the continent of Europe, and that includes the English, whether they like it or not.

Except that's not how the word is used 99% of the time.

 

[teitan]

No, Americans means anyone from the continents of North and South America. Just as European means anyone from the continent of Europe, and that includes the English, whether they like it or not.

Ahem. See above.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

No, Americans means anyone from the continents of North and South America. Just as European means anyone from the continent of Europe, and that includes the English, whether they like it or not.

No, it doesn't. It means someone from the US. Ya know, the country with America in the name. Absolutely no one uses anything else to refer to Americans (outside of slang terms like Yankee and variants), and it is vanishingly rare to the point of complete absurdity to suggest otherwise to use American any way other than to refer to people, things, culture, etc, from the United States of America.

 

[Scribe]

I'm Canadian, and I will assure you if you call me American I will absolutely correct you. Americans are from the US and that's it. There is no blanket world for people who come from the "Americas."

No doubt. Americans, is US.

 

[ART!]

This right here. People still think "Lord of the RIngs" when they think D&D, but that's not really true. Having a couple different sub-genre introductions is not a bad idea. It would be simple to translate the early parts of CoS to an introductory boxed set, and I think an Eberron boxed set would sell pretty well with magitech and steam punk inspired elements front and center. And WotC could do worse than to put out a set with an Avatar/Dragon Prince vibe.

100%
Expand the brand with affordable boxed sets, that sell at Target, Walmart, etc.
Horror-themed and steam-punk-themed sound like good places to start.

 

[Faolyn]

So what? Nobody requires people to know much about the cultural history of England (or anywhere else in Europe) before they write for the Sword Coast, do they? What they've soaked up by growing up in America is fine.

England and western Europe hasn't really been treated with the same sort of Otherness that Asia and Africa has.

 

[Zardnaar]

No, it doesn't. It means someone from the US. Ya know, the country with America in the name. Absolutely no one uses anything else to refer to Americans (outside of slang terms like Yankee and variants), and it is vanishingly rare to the point of complete absurdity to suggest otherwise to use American any way other than to refer to people, things, culture, etc, from the United States of America.

Yanks is the correct term.