#1 3:05 WotC will continue to Fail #2 9:28 Gaming Media will try to switch sides #3 11:09 Influencers make D&D alternatives #4 14:09 OSR will keep growing #5 21:00 Death of Woke
Old school was much more strategically minded, because stats doesn't mean as much as situational modifiers. Each +1 on a D20 means only 5%, so that even a +3 stat only means 15% difference. You won't get far playing strictly from your stats, but you can use strategy to create up to +4 situational modifier, you see that makes a bigger difference than what on your character sheet. And that's make for a very memorable playstyle!
22:07 my prediction is wokism will hold out the longest in the most niche & least dynamic hobbies. The more mainstream & more dynamic hobbies will be the first to shead wokism.
Congrats on platinum, guy! I use the compendium pretty regularly, and can confirm there's great stuff in there! Off topic a little, got any pointers on converting your writeup of the Demonurge to Lion & Dragon? Kind of a pet project right now.
@RPGPundit Sorry, demonurgist, page 259 of Dark Albion. Fascinating idea where demons bring you magic spells. Comes off kinda like a reverse cleric to me.
@grimguygames449 oh I see! The reason I didn't get the reference is because I didn't write that. That section of dark Albion was written by Dominique Crouzet. But I do agree that it is interesting. You'll note that in the summoning rules for L&D, a demon can potentially teach a wizard a magical technique. But you know I could do a diabolist
@@RPGPundit Would be awesome if it found it's way into the Dark Albion/L&D book! I was going the take the class in some crazy direction where you're rewarded with mutations every few levels which would act like spells. I'd be very interested in seeing what you did with it.
This morning I watched a trailer for a new sitcom starring Tim Allen, who is known for being conservative. It is on ABC which is Disney and it didn't look woke whatsoever. So your prediction is already coming true, they are starting to make non woke media again. I unfortunately think you're right that the RPG world will be one of the last places to rid itself of wokeness. However it still will which I am looking forward to, I'm so tired of trying to get a group only to hear someone bring up fucking safety tools.
The RPG world will be one of the last holdouts because it doesn't just attract nerds like us, but losers and creeps looking for a welcoming community that lets you play pretend
The problem is that Seattle is so insane, and WOTC is based in Seattle. Given that so much of the _paying_ TTRPG community is older and male -- just based on the numbers -- the industry can't profitably continue woke.
The woke-crowd have been a part of gaming since the 90s. They're not "new" to gaming, they're just a small minority who play games like Vampire, Ars Magica, Blue Rose, and Aria. What's new is them playing D&D, which for the longest time was anathema to their preferred play-style. It'd be fine if they'd occupy their corner and enjoy the hobby as they like it, the problem is they're mingling with people who want to play D&D as Conan and LOTR, or some over-the-top anime.
Got Baptism of Fire for christmas very happy also my polish friends who are non gamers rated it and as an old gamer from 1980 i have some Gen Z who are interested in playing it so maybe 2025 will be a good year!
I can see an argument possibly being made for that. Of course as of 2024, dragonlance in its original form was canceled and replaced with the new wotc dragonlance where krynn was already a perfect multiculti society and draconians are good. Spread the word, share the video!
I have always felt that a lot of White Wolf products Vampire the Masquerade, Aberrant (especially), Werewolf and so on are or were "Woke Lite", they were really well written and its wokeness was in context to the worlds and story and did not feel like it was thrown in your face. I didnt feel woke, but some of it was gay as fuk lol.
@@spkt0r Yeah, I’ve made the comment myself that those books would be suitable for the Tumblr/drama club crowd that has infested D&D due to their overemphasis on playacting and limited tactical rules.
Yup, that's a very good point. The original Vampire wasn't so much, just basically pretentious, but from Werewolf on it was proto-woke. Spread the word, share the video.
It was written for losers- have you ever met a VtM player? They're cringe people who can't distinguish their game from reality. Of course it's full of their warped worldview
Yes, but at the time (the early 90s) that game wasn't "politically correct" (what we called wokism back then), it was just edgy and dark and horribly horribly pretentious. Whereas Werewolf 1e was all about how capitalism was destroying the earth, so it was "politically correct".
The deeper I go on the pre WotC D&D, more I see that what's not on the book matters just as much as what is on it. That old D&D is as much as toolset, a framework and philosophy as it is a game! That's why people love it!
Do you have any plans to expand the medieval-inspired setting outside of Europe? I find medieval China an underrated setting. I have seen medieval Japan and even the medieval Middle East explored more than medieval China. Medieval time period China was probably more brutal than the crusades and the Japanese civil wars.
But prediction 3 has already happened. They've all announced it... they're just coming out this year . Mcdm, daggerheart, Tales of the valiant(/Black flag), and even Shadowdark did a marketing pivot when the scandal came out
The prediction 3 wasn't that all these competitors would make their games. Its that by the end of the year not one of them will have made any real long-term impact. They are going to be largely forgotten within a few years.
I picked up companion II but I wish it was a little more like companion I, Any chance you will release a companion III, more like I? Heard rumors HASBRO selling of DD to some gambling company? If they made a TTRPG using a BG3 system and GUI they would make a fortune IMHO.
Hasbro isn't going to let go of any IP they own, unless forced to by bankruptcy. They're going to license out the trademark to other companies to keep the books balanced, so expect to see D&D branded video games, bubble gum, and sneakers in the next few years.
I would like to start a campaign much like George Wittelsbach-Lorraine-Mclarion-Hoopy did for Catboy but for Sammie. She cannot become an immortal, if anything she should be a Patreon Daemon.
Interesting that I had already made most of these same predictions myself. It is a bit amusing to think that my WIP system is probably more comparable to 5e than most of those posturing as the next big thing, whereas I have no delusions about the likelihood of my system taking off to remotely that scale. Woke involvement in this precedes D&D. Hippies were a sizeable part of LotR and Renaissance faires taking off in the USA, and that group certainly has overap with some of the foundations woke.
The reason people buy physical books in the digital age is due only to these few factors: force, practicality, and artistry. Force because schools do what they do, practicality because some information you don't want batteries attached to, and artistry because a well-made product is desirable. D&D is becoming increasingly sold on the back of ugly art, and in turn they've tried to make the product more practical to use at the table, but I don't think the trade off is going to benefit them.
Their art is awful. I don't mean aesthetically alone, but in the sense that it is a very specific style that only appeals to a very tiny sector of society, and does not effectively evoke the traditional spirit of the game. In this new edition in particular, the art has been hugely important, in the sense that it has become one of the major sources of criticism.
@RPGPundit There is no defect of form in the new art (at least not always) but simply bad ideas. If you made a collage of the art in the new phb, it wouldn't be obvious at all that D&D is a medieval fantasy game. It unfortunately takes part in the lack of identity its creators suffer from, trying to make up for this defect with noisy bright colors everywhere.
My predictions for 2025? I'll be backing Gaming Ballistic's Mission X for as much money as I can put into it, for all of the add-ons and stretch goals. I'll be playing more old school RPGs in 2025 including Call of Cthulhu 5e, Champions 4e, and Cyberpunk 2020. I hope to spend less time watching clickbait and ragebait D&D content videos in 2025.
@RPGPundit Why thank you. That's mighty kind of you. Getting out some old school games without baggage or controversy seems just the thing for 2025, like a breath of fresh air.
Wokism is a totalitarian ideology which believes that leftist identity politics must be injected into EVERY FACET of human existence. Every human activity (work, school, leisure time, sexuality, religion, institutional interactions, etc) must at all times be used to indoctrinate people in a series of leftist beliefs about identity that are almost entirely at odds with actual reality. Nothing can be allowed to just be normal. Everything must be 'queered' into a revolutionary indoctrination meant to teach you something, typically how awful western civilization is and the magic words and gestures you must make to prove you are not one of the bad people, because "silence is violence" (which actually means, "not disagreeing isn't enough, and if you don't vehemently agree with what we demand you believe we will be violent to you").
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#1 3:05 WotC will continue to Fail
#2 9:28 Gaming Media will try to switch sides
#3 11:09 Influencers make D&D alternatives
#4 14:09 OSR will keep growing
#5 21:00 Death of Woke
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Thank you ex
Old school was much more strategically minded, because stats doesn't mean as much as situational modifiers. Each +1 on a D20 means only 5%, so that even a +3 stat only means 15% difference. You won't get far playing strictly from your stats, but you can use strategy to create up to +4 situational modifier, you see that makes a bigger difference than what on your character sheet. And that's make for a very memorable playstyle!
Yes. There's some people who complain about "stuff that gives you +1", but the +1s add up.
Jason Tondro also led a unionization mutiny at Paizo - and then bailed for WOTC.
I'm sure he'll do his best to damage WotC before he leaves, too. Spread the word, share the video!
Hasbro & Wotc have teamed up with a Gambling company and a company that does pinball machines.
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22:07 my prediction is wokism will hold out the longest in the most niche & least dynamic hobbies.
The more mainstream & more dynamic hobbies will be the first to shead wokism.
Likely.
Happy new years.
Same to you! Spread the word, share the video!
But what about the dwarfiest dwarf and the Elfyist elf?
That has been replaced now, because its racist. Spread the word, share the video!
Congrats on platinum, guy! I use the compendium pretty regularly, and can confirm there's great stuff in there!
Off topic a little, got any pointers on converting your writeup of the Demonurge to Lion & Dragon? Kind of a pet project right now.
Demonurge?
@RPGPundit Sorry, demonurgist, page 259 of Dark Albion. Fascinating idea where demons bring you magic spells. Comes off kinda like a reverse cleric to me.
@grimguygames449 oh I see! The reason I didn't get the reference is because I didn't write that. That section of dark Albion was written by Dominique Crouzet. But I do agree that it is interesting. You'll note that in the summoning rules for L&D, a demon can potentially teach a wizard a magical technique. But you know I could do a diabolist
@@RPGPundit Would be awesome if it found it's way into the Dark Albion/L&D book! I was going the take the class in some crazy direction where you're rewarded with mutations every few levels which would act like spells. I'd be very interested in seeing what you did with it.
You're going to be happy in a couple of months...
This morning I watched a trailer for a new sitcom starring Tim Allen, who is known for being conservative. It is on ABC which is Disney and it didn't look woke whatsoever. So your prediction is already coming true, they are starting to make non woke media again.
I unfortunately think you're right that the RPG world will be one of the last places to rid itself of wokeness. However it still will which I am looking forward to, I'm so tired of trying to get a group only to hear someone bring up fucking safety tools.
Spread the word, share the video!
The RPG world will be one of the last holdouts because it doesn't just attract nerds like us, but losers and creeps looking for a welcoming community that lets you play pretend
The problem is that Seattle is so insane, and WOTC is based in Seattle. Given that so much of the _paying_ TTRPG community is older and male -- just based on the numbers -- the industry can't profitably continue woke.
The woke-crowd have been a part of gaming since the 90s. They're not "new" to gaming, they're just a small minority who play games like Vampire, Ars Magica, Blue Rose, and Aria. What's new is them playing D&D, which for the longest time was anathema to their preferred play-style. It'd be fine if they'd occupy their corner and enjoy the hobby as they like it, the problem is they're mingling with people who want to play D&D as Conan and LOTR, or some over-the-top anime.
No one actually plays Aria; the game is unplayable.
Got Baptism of Fire for christmas very happy also my polish friends who are non gamers rated it and as an old gamer from 1980 i have some Gen Z who are interested in playing it so maybe 2025 will be a good year!
Wonderful! Spread the word, share the video!
I usually come around here for WotC roasting, but wish you Grognards well in 2025 and beyond!
There's some considerable roasting in this video. Spread the word, share the video! And happy new year to you too!
Loving the artwork of these books!
I hope you mean my books, in the video, as opposed to the art in the new D&D books...
GinnyD&D isn't meant to be played; it's meant to be (virtue) signaled! :)
LOL! Excellent. Spread the word, share the video!
It's signalled with her rack.
I despise Ginny D. Fake woke gamer girl rehashing old advice and followed by a bunch of simps.
ONE is more meant to be watched than played, at this point.
22:40 Dragonlance was the "egg of the serpent".
I can see an argument possibly being made for that. Of course as of 2024, dragonlance in its original form was canceled and replaced with the new wotc dragonlance where krynn was already a perfect multiculti society and draconians are good.
Spread the word, share the video!
I have always felt that a lot of White Wolf products Vampire the Masquerade, Aberrant (especially), Werewolf and so on are or were "Woke Lite", they were really well written and its wokeness was in context to the worlds and story and did not feel like it was thrown in your face. I didnt feel woke, but some of it was gay as fuk lol.
@@spkt0r Yeah, I’ve made the comment myself that those books would be suitable for the Tumblr/drama club crowd that has infested D&D due to their overemphasis on playacting and limited tactical rules.
Yup, that's a very good point. The original Vampire wasn't so much, just basically pretentious, but from Werewolf on it was proto-woke. Spread the word, share the video.
It was written for losers- have you ever met a VtM player? They're cringe people who can't distinguish their game from reality. Of course it's full of their warped worldview
@@groundpounder9077 "limited tactical rules" Have you read any of the mainline vampire books? Most will make your average dnd player spin
Yes, but at the time (the early 90s) that game wasn't "politically correct" (what we called wokism back then), it was just edgy and dark and horribly horribly pretentious. Whereas Werewolf 1e was all about how capitalism was destroying the earth, so it was "politically correct".
WOTC has been trying to deliver a VTT since 2008. They're cursed.
Longer than that, even. I have vague memories of them trying to go digital since early 3E (buggered if I remember how, though). It never, EVER, works.
They are cursed with trying to do stuff they're not made to do. Spread the word, share the video!
Never ascribe to curses what can be explained by incompetence.
The deeper I go on the pre WotC D&D, more I see that what's not on the book matters just as much as what is on it. That old D&D is as much as toolset, a framework and philosophy as it is a game! That's why people love it!
That's absolutely correct. Spread the word, share the video!
Dungeons & Dragons pachikon, was not seeing the ip so shamefull milk for peanut in years.
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Great predictions. I just did 5 for ‘25 as well and one of mine was the end of “The Woke Joke”. In the way of the Satanic Panic.
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Do you have any plans to expand the medieval-inspired setting outside of Europe? I find medieval China an underrated setting. I have seen medieval Japan and even the medieval Middle East explored more than medieval China. Medieval time period China was probably more brutal than the crusades and the Japanese civil wars.
I will likely at some point try to write a Song Dynasty China book. Spread the word, share the video!
*Someone really needs to make a "Essential Guide to O.S.R. T.T.R.P.G.s". before the woke do it.*
Media? Hypocritical, you say?
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But prediction 3 has already happened. They've all announced it... they're just coming out this year . Mcdm, daggerheart, Tales of the valiant(/Black flag), and even Shadowdark did a marketing pivot when the scandal came out
The prediction 3 wasn't that all these competitors would make their games. Its that by the end of the year not one of them will have made any real long-term impact. They are going to be largely forgotten within a few years.
I picked up companion II but I wish it was a little more like companion I, Any chance you will release a companion III, more like I? Heard rumors HASBRO selling of DD to some gambling company? If they made a TTRPG using a BG3 system and GUI they would make a fortune IMHO.
Companion III is on the way, sometime in the first half of this year, and it is much more like Companion 1, source material, not adventures.
Hasbro isn't going to let go of any IP they own, unless forced to by bankruptcy. They're going to license out the trademark to other companies to keep the books balanced, so expect to see D&D branded video games, bubble gum, and sneakers in the next few years.
I would like to start a campaign much like George Wittelsbach-Lorraine-Mclarion-Hoopy did for Catboy but for Sammie. She cannot become an immortal, if anything she should be a Patreon Daemon.
You want her destroyed?
@ not destroyed just “retired”. She did side track the party from the main quest… helping Gord find Mendez. I kid, she is a pain in the ass though.
Interesting that I had already made most of these same predictions myself.
It is a bit amusing to think that my WIP system is probably more comparable to 5e than most of those posturing as the next big thing, whereas I have no delusions about the likelihood of my system taking off to remotely that scale.
Woke involvement in this precedes D&D. Hippies were a sizeable part of LotR and Renaissance faires taking off in the USA, and that group certainly has overap with some of the foundations woke.
The hippies were leftist but weren't all that woke.
I have enough old content to keep my interest even if d&d didn't go woke i would still play 5e im sick of changing editions 🙄
Check out the OSR!
The reason people buy physical books in the digital age is due only to these few factors: force, practicality, and artistry. Force because schools do what they do, practicality because some information you don't want batteries attached to, and artistry because a well-made product is desirable.
D&D is becoming increasingly sold on the back of ugly art, and in turn they've tried to make the product more practical to use at the table, but I don't think the trade off is going to benefit them.
Their art is awful. I don't mean aesthetically alone, but in the sense that it is a very specific style that only appeals to a very tiny sector of society, and does not effectively evoke the traditional spirit of the game. In this new edition in particular, the art has been hugely important, in the sense that it has become one of the major sources of criticism.
@RPGPundit There is no defect of form in the new art (at least not always) but simply bad ideas. If you made a collage of the art in the new phb, it wouldn't be obvious at all that D&D is a medieval fantasy game. It unfortunately takes part in the lack of identity its creators suffer from, trying to make up for this defect with noisy bright colors everywhere.
My predictions for 2025?
I'll be backing Gaming Ballistic's Mission X for as much money as I can put into it, for all of the add-ons and stretch goals. I'll be playing more old school RPGs in 2025 including Call of Cthulhu 5e, Champions 4e, and Cyberpunk 2020.
I hope to spend less time watching clickbait and ragebait D&D content videos in 2025.
Well good luck with that..
@RPGPundit Why thank you. That's mighty kind of you.
Getting out some old school games without baggage or controversy seems just the thing for 2025, like a breath of fresh air.
hopefully you won't over-extend your business by purchasing a needlepoint company.
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Ha! Bravo
what is wokism even supposed to mean
Wokism is a totalitarian ideology which believes that leftist identity politics must be injected into EVERY FACET of human existence. Every human activity (work, school, leisure time, sexuality, religion, institutional interactions, etc) must at all times be used to indoctrinate people in a series of leftist beliefs about identity that are almost entirely at odds with actual reality.
Nothing can be allowed to just be normal. Everything must be 'queered' into a revolutionary indoctrination meant to teach you something, typically how awful western civilization is and the magic words and gestures you must make to prove you are not one of the bad people, because "silence is violence" (which actually means, "not disagreeing isn't enough, and if you don't vehemently agree with what we demand you believe we will be violent to you").
Sounds tough, man. Thank you for your response.
Spot on
5e 2014 works for myself and my group, so 2024 is meaningless to us. F WOTC!
Fair enough. Though I hope you'd still check out the OSR.
@ I own most of your books. OSR enough for you?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well no, you also do stuff for narcissism too.
None of my games are a product of narcissism. They're all things I think people will sincerely enjoy playing.