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A minor thing that bugs me is that the unlockable Amani customizations are just skin and hair colors for regular trolls. The new stockier Amani model is fantastic, and I want it for my troll monk!

And for next year, we'll have "Seasons of Love", coming in approximately five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes.

Meh. I generally think that aphorism exists because humans are narrative-seekers who love to spot patterns, and ignore the instances of when things don't fall into patterns (which is most of the time). Plus, historians just like to justify their existence. :)

Institutions corrupt over time.

Voidstorm is definitely one of the best iterations of the "stuck in Hell" blasted zone that Blizzard usually does once an expansion. There are lot of interesting quests that give some texture to the idea of the "Void". They definitely seem to be going for a Moorcockian "Too much of any one...

I agree that WotC is largely disincentivized from pursuing a strategy of innovation over slow evolution. (More's the pity from my perspective, but that's neither here not there.) I would add only that I doubt WotC's corporate strategy is being dictated by one historical precedent from over a...

Ok. But I was simply answering the question you asked in post 26, “What is the upside to breaking 5e?” The upside could be something innovative and interesting by a company that can afford for very high production values, and with a lot of baked-in interest. The question was not “What is the...

As a contrasting hypothetical, would we be better off as a community if the 2024 books had been the 4th revision (2003, 2008, 2014, 2024) of the still-churning 3e engine? Assuming that engine continuity is actually a virtue?

I thought it was a silly idea when they first announced it, and I still think it's just marketing-speak. "Evergreen" is just an illusion of permanence, right up until it becomes obvious that it would be more profitable to make a change.

I play plenty of other games. I've advocated for many of them on these boards. I'm not looking for A style of play. I'm looking for more new stuff, because I like new things. New stuff is fun! I mean, this forum was way more fun in 2012/2013 when we were anticipating a new edition, that it...

] If you're still playing 3e/PF1, how is it NOT evergreen?

Hey, I like 5e. It's just been 12 years, that's way too long for any one game to stay interesting. It's not a diminishment of 5e for me to feel it's reached its natural endpoint. RPG lines need energy, they aren't meant to be evergreen like chess.

Oh, for sure. I have concerns that a new edition will be built specifically to be tailored to an online/subscription based model, with well-defined, chunky game pieces (all classes and subclasses, not a lot of feats and spell lists) with relatively little granularity, designed for a play model...

For sure. I've said this in the past, but if my current game tables dried up, I'd more than likely just move on from the hobby rather than go through the effort of finding new tables. It's just not worth it to me at this phase in my life.

You can never rule out people doing a bad job. But they have an already working project, and aren't under some major time crunch, and this isn't the hardest tech job in the world. I maintain some optimism that a more flexible D&D Beyond remains a possibility.

Sure, but I'm assuming you don't also only play cribbage to the exclusion of other games. There are an awful lot of games that are variations of the "Let's play a card game with a 52-card poker deck" theme, and the existence of one doesn't invalidate the others. And no one is questioning the...

My assumption is that if they're already in the process of recoding DDB, they'll do so in a manner that doesn't hardcode any specific design requirements. The "edition" will just be a skin that fits on the core framework. That just seems like basic project management common sense, especially...

No idea. I don't have gaming tables; I have tables of friends where we choose to play RPGs as a fun activity. If those tables decided to just do board games instead, it's RPGing that gets punted, not my friends. I'm not that attached to the hobby.

I know lots of people do it, I just don’t get how you don’t get bored.

No, I get it. I’ve done it before. But I think the distinction here is I perceive that external model as still being you. A set of mental heuristics you apply to “model” a fictional character is still, at its core, you.