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[–] dumples@midwest.social 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I love Christ Perkin and Jeremy Crawford. Who is even running D&D now? They are literally the only people I knew still on the project. They are both great. Were they forced out of WoTC?

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"the corporation" is running it now. It's not about people any more, it's all procedural and goal oriented operations now.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gross. I was really excited for 5.5 for a while but don't really want to get it anymore. I liked the PHB class upgrades when I read it but don't own anything from it yet

[–] caseofthematts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

5.5, in my opinion, is a very corporate edition of the game. There wasn't any actual change or reason for a new edition other than Hasbro wanted D&DBeyond and the money it got, and the way to do that was make a "new edition". But people liked and were playing 5e so, make a backwards compatible system that's totally the same thing.

The 2024 version of D&D, in my eyes, doesn't fix any of the actual issues with the game. They change some wording and change some abilities but none of the core issues are dealt with. So to me, it's a pointless cash grab.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

I like the changes with weapons properties and I like some of the updates with various classes for some improvements to the weaker subclasses and feats. I overall enjoyed the majority of the changes.

However, from what I have heard and seen I did not enjoy the changes to the Monster Manual and statblocks.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ChatGPT give some pretty generic DnD advice. I can't wait until they make a terrible automated DM. I can't wait to play the most generic DnD of all time.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every single game is just the plot of Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

That would be fun. Every game would just be a series of different fetch quests with a rotated list of the same enemies. Like a MMRPG but worse and more expensive