Interestingly, a 3rd party publisher beat them to it. Advanced 5E fixes some of the things the community designers tend to bitch about and seems to be more inclined to listen to their fanbase. It's also pozzed to hell like much of the industry, but they at least release their rules fundamentals for free.
Given that 5e is now over a decade old at this point and with all of the "how do I do x in 5e" posts, it's a wonder they even bothered. Realistically, who were they going to piss off by not releasing a rules revision? They'd already alienated old school players. The hobby tourists were going to fuck off anyway. Their inbuilt fanbase were absolute niggercattle who probably would have been content with the same shitty churn modules for another 5-10 years or more. Even a lot of the 5e competitors that came out like CR's shit didn't gain a great deal of traction beyond becoming shelf fodder or DnDtuber circlejerk material. It seems like they managed to trip with a golden goose in hand and crushed it under their MtG load bearing asses.
You know it's going to be good when the author has already got a years old thread.
Are loads of events like this as corporate entities viewing D&D/TTRPG hobbies all think if they can be the company to crack the code and open the hobby up to a wider audience then they can rake in huge amounts of money. It's rather funny in a way that all these companies trying to make money off Dungeon Masters/Game Masters are at the moment now also gambling on which game system to support too.
Nah. The reality is that the annual books(tal rashas and all that crap) weren't selling as well as they wanted, and would never sell as much as a new set of core books would. Remember they also wanted to remove the 2014 edition content fron the dndbeyond page to force people into buying the new stuff as microtransactions there again, but lost enough subscribers quickly enough that they backpedaled on it. Their fiancial reports for the past couple of years, and especially the one right before the movie came out were full of statements about how D&D was "under-monetized" because they want to treat it like a f2p mobile game with a marketplace. Hence wanting their own VTT, wanting AI DMs for people who can't find a DM, microtransactions for customizable characters like heroforge, the time they tried to put together a 24 hour streaming channel and wasted a bunch of money on celebrity guest stars, and so on. D&D has always been a niche, but they want it to become a billion dollar a year IP.
The AI DM is a bit of a myth, started out a few years back when people who could DM would feed questions into chatGPT to have it write a one shot adventure that they would then DM by feeding very specific questions into chatGPT "so it was DM" and from that and people not fully knowing what they had watched it's basically created this idea of AI DMs that won't go away. The hasbro attempt seems to revolve around turning D&D beyond into such a computer game style experience that the "AI DM" was just coded to keep them on track in an as close as they can get to baldurs gate 3 while still calling it D&D game.
The AI will just be an AI version of those very troons.
It still doesn't as far as I know. People call it DnD 2024, but I don't know if that's the official title.
What even is that? An event run by WotC at cons or something?
The problem with advanced 5e is that it slows down an already slow game, and adds a bunch of things to track without adding anything meaningful. I hear people shill it online, but don't know anyone who actually plays it.
They were afraid of pissing off the casuals/tourists/critical roll crowd who saw their £300+ book collection going up in a poof of smoke. Anyone could've told them that ship had sailed. If Clownfish TV is to be believed (and I don't think they're the only one to say this) but DnD was just a tag along with the deal to buy MtG, and it was only when it started making money hand over fist that Hasbro took notice.
And goodberry (ruins survival scenarios), and silvery barbs (though I don't think it's terribly OP, and I think was tashas?). Basically, the list of exceptions can start to get long unless you limit it to PHB or maybe a couple of books. There's also house rules for things like initiative and inspiration, and everyone has their own desired house rules. Eventually you get to weird situations where you're writing a bunch of house rules. "No tasha, except ranger, and no strix, and side based initiative, and 3 short rests per long rest." "Can we have BG 3 true strike and weapon flourishes? What about Bloodhunter?" "Which version of bloodhunter?" and so on.
I'd be interested in going to one of those just for shits and gigs. When I'd go with a big group of friends to GenCon back in the day we'd all get the cheapest hotel we could find and drive in at like 7 AM. I was mostly there to hang out with my friends so I never signed up for events and thus I would end up at seminars half asleep while my friends drafted Magic when the con opened. Monte Cook did one that was really good. I'd like to sit in on a bunch of retarded danger hairs yelling about how I suck just for fun though.
I'm guessing an irl version of something similar to the start playing games talks.
I didn't, though. No Tasha's, except ranger, no furry races. That's it. I ran the game just fine for 10 years playing it like that. Never felt any need to house rule initiative. A big contrast here is with 4e, where the math was fundamentally broken, and 3.5, where players could cherry pick feats and MC dips to do really stupid things. I didn't have to play Build Cop or substantially rewrite core mechanics. It all worked well enough out of the box. (And I house-ruled the furries out because they're fuckin' gay.)
Who is going to be some skinny elf in studded leather rocking an armor class of 15 or 16 no problem even at level 1 thanks to how broken Dex builds are in D&D.
Aside from the fact that it'd be utter garbage at best basically just railroading an adventure along, it'll also have a stupid subscription fee attached to it. And of course the AI chatbot will be completely poz'd admonishing you for not befriending the trannies and inviting them to your party and shit.
That's why I clarified the community content creators. The sorts who make CharOp shit and do a lot of white-room theorycrafting. It solves their bugbears on paper but makes an already grindy game a veritable crushing mill. At least 3.PF's got numerical verisimilitude and the gleefully dumb build sandbox going for it. If I want fast and punchy I usually do Knave, LotFP, or d6 Fantasy with some restrictions on magic.
I've always wondered why more GMs don't just put a hard limit on the number of races in their worlds. Not even necessarily something like just PHB races, but having combos like human, warforged, duergar, goliath, nothing else. I've done stuff like that a few times and it definitely helps worldbuilding feel a lot more cohesive when you don't have to account for some retard attempting to bring a sparkly catgirl or tumblr poisoned tiefling rogue to the table. Then again, I've largely played with people who have been vouched for by friends and almost never have to fish for strangers when running new games.
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel was yet another in the long list of "we're too lazy to write a cohesive adventure spanning multiple levels, so here's a bunch of one-shots that you can run to fake a full campaign" adventure books for 5e. The selling point for that one, however, was that all the adventures were written by token minorities, so it was supposed to be inherently better than anything those obsolete old white men could write. In practice, it proved everyone's criticisms of wokeshit completely correct.
HAHAHAHA fuckin love it. Any chance they kept chat/playlogs?
The video was posted either here or in the community thread.
