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someone i know in wizards tells me if i want to ad Gods, well i can google it, and i answered, why the hell do I have to buy the books from you if I have to search for it on Google? the new people running dnd are dumbass

Check out Savage Worlds. Its better than dnd. The owner and company doesn't seem to care too much if you play their system they just want people to play SOMETHING. if you look at his kickstarter he's always backing other upcoming systems and people who are making stuff for Savage Worlds. Because it's a genre-less and class-less system you can make whatever campaign you want with whatever character you want. And the best part is you only NEED the core book to run everything you want. My table played it for almost a year off of a single $40 core book.

you have no digital property

Lamentations of the Flame Princes

A lot of content in DND however it’s always been a poor mechanical system

You know what's easier to call it? 5.5e because it is. ;)

Unlike video games, there is a thriving second hand market for older books. And even without the books, they can’t take your imagination. You don’t need WotC to do home brew, run a game in Faerun with another system, or have an adventure. I’m looking forward to the collapse of the D20 hegemony, and the rise of a more diverse ecosystem of TTRPG mechanics, settings, genres, and styles.

Shadowdark is one book, has that gritty feel, and is waay more simple to play / run

I hate the new orcs. What is that book over your right shoulder? You've got the Call of Cthulu with the green lettering then the the black book with the red and white lettering then the one I am curious about...

DDB is still janky. We've now got 3 copies of many spells in the char sheet "manage spells" menu. 2 copies of the 2024 free rules and a legacy copy. Blerg.

We left the brand. Two GM’s doing PathFinder and StarFinder, one GM started with Shadow of the Demon Lord and is now considering Shadow of the Weird Wizard. In truth these companies exist at our behest ; if need be it isn’t difficult at all to switch to something better. Not now. Not these days.

Cringe is a verb not a noun. Stop using it as such

Excellent take down. If only they would have listened to people who actually run the game.

Stick with 2014e and boycott 2024e. You don't have to (or even should) always buy the latest just because it is the latest. Quality is a thing.

we STILL play AD&D 2nd. im old.

Yea but…. Every edition from 3e or later you only technically needed the players hand book to play, for 5th they released the basic rules for free and you could start using that. Also, the release schedule for 5e was about the exact same for 2014 , they just released the monster manual before the dmg, but it was still over a span of 6 months. 4th edition was the real nightmare, they tried to monetize so bad they released new core rule books every year . So there was an additional phb, every year. The first one didn’t contain all the core classes , you had to wait till next year to hopefully get your favorite core class. 2nd edition was awesome and brutal, don’t get me started on THAC0

13:26 I freaking hate this amount of mollycoddling. This game is solely designed for the overemotional people, who write 10 page backstories for their characters and pay 50-100 bucks for art to quietly signal their DM, that their PCs cannot die unless they want them to. Even 7th edition Call of Cthulhu (which I see back there on the shelf) is kind of guilty of this.

Horrible video. First half I doesn't even get to the "list." I don't have time to argue about the actual "points" he is complaining about.

Personally I would rather play Pathfinder 1e and have my campaign geared towards it, but for some reason the players want the new thing even if it's inferior.

I really think you need to say “Hasbro“ instead of saying “ wizards of the Coast,“. Everything that is going on is about the numbers, and those numbers are for stockholders. So think about the Hasbro stock when you are talking about the changes, players, and what is happening. The people that invest into stocks very likely don’t even know who wizards of the Coast is, nor what D&D even is. However, those people do you know who Hasbro is and they know how to watch their stocks and their stock portfolios. So when videos come out about DND and the problems it’s causing for its players you should talk about Hasbro. Those videos talking about Hasbro will draw the eye of investors and players.

that idea is so simple but so game changing at the same time!!

This is normal operation by Hasbro, they do all kinds o stupid things with magic. The executives took $150 million in bonuses and then did massive layoffs of all the people that made that money.

Digital is far more profitable and easier to manage than printing books. But this make it hard to game stores to exist and having a good place to play is important.

You can't start playing 2024 until at 3 books come out, I'd argue you'd want to wait till around 6 books come out, including adventures.

Looks like WOTC and Hasbro have been watching Games Workshop. Can't say how glad I am to have stopped adding new editions after 3.5E stopped.

ahhhh, you are on SPG as well. How long have you been there and how many tables do you run? I have plenty to say as I am running three tables right now and two of them were started with 2014 rules and we all updated. I just find that PCs are just so OP. The monk eliminating damage every round, for example. Combat also takes longer as they are trying to learn and remember all of the new little things that they can do. I am also running three Tales of the Valiant campaigns which are much easier to run and truly feel like it was made for players and masters. Anyway, you have a new follower. I will begin watching other videos that you have.

I'm considering going with the names 5e14 and 5e24

customers have the power so use it !!! don t buy it.

don t buy and they ll stop !!!! it s easy to understand. friends of mine has made a fan version of DND 2024 without all sh... illustrations inside and without species.... it s fan version wokeless. u only need a good pdf editor and it s done :) its not hard pdfelements ...

RPG rules aren't real unless you have them in your hands, and you can turn and smell the pages. I have no passion for, and won't consume, 2024e.

First encounter with any of your videos: your analogy of WotC coming to your house and grabbing one of your print books is spot on. That highlights one of the core issues with electronic entertainment.

Based KotOR II reference.

Scannable barcodes for physical books are a bare minimum.

I hope that most of the people here that use dndbeyond just started making homebrew versions of stuff instead of buying it now that they've removed the ala cart option. Yeah no, I'm not buying a whole ass book to get Silvery Barb when I can just go add a homebrew version for free.

as a math nerd this is so fun. I'm going to do this for my favorite system type now, PBtA. thnx!

oh this slaps hard

Im a payed DM too. nice !

Easy fix: Trevor Devall still has 4 days left on his TTRPG, The Broken Empires on Kickstarter -it looks great! Abandon these clowns! Nice job with this video.

Very good analysis man, it would be amazing if you took this basis and compared the conclusions you extracted here with analysis of other games, like Symbaroum, One Ring, Pathfinder, and so on

Seems like the best solution for DnD 5e is to just play something else xD

It's amazing how consistently you are wrong and misleading on every topic. Learn to create content, not hate clickbait.

I got to say you just popped up into my RUclips feed and I decided to give you a video a listen. You're editing is hilarious and spot on very very good. I also think your opinions are concise clear and have a lot of thought in them. I started playing dungeons & dragons in 1987 but I was a huge 3.5 fan when they switch to 4th edition I was crushed and I moved over to pathfinder. The things started to sour everywhere and I started to see these changes that you're talking about and the move towards the digital micro transactional business models moving forward on top of ideological changes that I think we're not necessary but harnessed in order to attract a different consumer that they could milk far more easily. I just ended up shifting over to Shadowdark. Just like we used to do it in the late 80s and early 90s if the book doesn't cover something but everything else was right there and everything you needed could be referenced of one book. Not only that though Kelsey took it to a whole new level and making the players handbook so accessible and valuable to the player and the DM that there was no turning back for me

“Just like they wouldn’t come in your house.” *WotC and the Pinkertons exchange a look and start laughing*

I am glad I subscribed.

Just to support your idea that they want to force everyone to update. They took over the 5e module on the Foundry VTT like a year ago and now that only uses the new rules so if you want to play with the new Foundry VTT and play 5e you got to have the new rules.

All of the things that lead us to today started well before the OGL scandal. It started with the release of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (That No One Asked For).

Real problems: 1) I dont trust Modern Corporations to make good content. Not Hollywood, not Comics, not TTRPGs. And, of course, not video games. 2) OGL scandal. I hope no one thinks that it wont be implimented at some point, just more gradually and quietly. 3) Crit Role is waning. It was inevitable. They've been at this for nearly 10 years! But Crit Role was their #1 advertising. Then Baldur's Gate 3, but 2025E isnt the same system. The movie flopped, with good reason IMO. There is little to nothing _DRIVING_ D&D anymore. 4) Corporations are failures these days. How the HELL does a company like flipping HASBRO *NOT* want to make toys??? If companies are only focused on squeezing every dollar out of customers that they can, pretty soon kids will be back to whacking cans down the street with sticks again, and they all will be better for it.

They butchered the druid class especially the moon druid. And they f*ck twinned spell for the sorceror

Character development at its best! Thank you for spreading this positivity. Awesome message!

Man, I still don't know why people are still messing around with DnD when you have Cyberpunk Red, Cy_BORG/MORKBORG, Black Sword Hack, and Shadowdark -- tons of great old school games that dont feed the corporate dragons at Hasbro.