D&D Twitter is a Garbage-Filled Wasteland

Kane · August 29, 2019, 06:17:30 PM

Quote from: Almost_Useless;1101120So, do you think it was the chicken or the egg. Is 5e produced in such a way that it attracts players who aren't interested in making content? Or are people who want canned content just drawn to 5e? As a 5e GM who likes home-brewing stuff, I'm curious.

I think it's less 5E specifically and more Critical Role and the other streaming shows on Twitch and YouTube attracting these types of players (and non-players). And when you're used to consuming your D&D content, when you actually play (for those that aren't content with just experiencing the game vicariously through strangers on Twitch), you're less likely to make stuff up, particularly if that's part of the hobby you haven't been exposed to yet.

That's not to say Twitter isn't a steaming pile of digital diarrhea. That whole platform could burn to the ground and I wouldn't miss it.

Shasarak · August 29, 2019, 08:27:38 PM

I think that Twitter is great and on the other hand I dont go there for deep DnD discussion.

S'mon · August 30, 2019, 03:59:30 AM

Quote from: Kane;1101481I think it's less 5E specifically and more Critical Role and the other streaming shows on Twitch and YouTube attracting these types of players (and non-players). And when you're used to consuming your D&D content, when you actually play (for those that aren't content with just experiencing the game vicariously through strangers on Twitch), you're less likely to make stuff up, particularly if that's part of the hobby you haven't been exposed to yet.

I didn't see a lot of 'making stuff up' in the 3e & 4e eras either, though I agree 5e is certainly much more amenable to house ruling & tweaking by design.

Anon Adderlan · August 30, 2019, 04:26:55 PM

#Reddit is about the last social media platform I can use for complex nuanced discussions, and it's not just a huge step backwards from forums like this, but it's becoming less functionality by the day. The situation is so bad at this point that I genuinely fear for the medium as a whole.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1101124All social media is a garbage filled wasteland. Finding value is like digging in a landfill.

Quote from: HappyDaze;1101130That's no landfill, that's a bowel you're digitally disimpacting.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1101134And that's my next Shadowrun adventure!!

I wanted to base an adventure off my colonoscopy, but sadly I wasn't able to record it.

HappyDaze · August 30, 2019, 04:56:03 PM

Quote from: Anon Adderlan;1101599I wanted to base an adventure off my colonoscopy, but sadly I wasn't able to record it.

Your doc should have the pics.

RPGPundit · September 02, 2019, 03:15:16 PM

Quote from: Almost_Useless;1101120So, do you think it was the chicken or the egg. Is 5e produced in such a way that it attracts players who aren't interested in making content? Or are people who want canned content just drawn to 5e? As a 5e GM who likes home-brewing stuff, I'm curious.

Neither. It was a combination of Millennial Conformity and a shift to SJW Culture in Hasbro.

Warboss Squee · September 02, 2019, 03:50:55 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1101108So in my latest video I point out how D&D Twitter is a garbage-filled wasteland of noise over signal. I blame 5e fans and tumblrinas for this, and suggest an alternative.

[video=youtube_share;2FlZ4gRcxEs]https://youtu.be/2FlZ4gRcxEs[/youtube]

Blaming the fans?

Who are you, Disney?

S'mon · September 02, 2019, 04:48:53 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1101910Neither. It was a combination of Millennial Conformity and a shift to SJW Culture in Hasbro.

I'm not really seeing any SJW culture in the 5e core books, and nothing there that would discourage people from making their own stuff. There is some SJW stuff in later books, though compared to Paizo/Baizuo's hard-SocJus Leftism it's so light you really have to look for it.
So seems like it's just the general Millennial Conformity.

4e by contrast really hardcoded discouragement of unconformity, by pretty well requiring a computer program to build your character and the 'everything is Core' attitude. It exemplified Millennial Conformity in its design in a way 5e really doesn't (partly thanks to you no doubt, but I think Mearls has a very Gen X 'Do your own thing, man!' attitude).

Spinachcat · September 02, 2019, 05:31:58 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1101910Neither. It was a combination of Millennial Conformity and a shift to SJW Culture in Hasbro.

Gen Y "Millennials" were born 1977 to 1995 and Gen Z were born 1996 to present.

However, I don't know the average age of Twitter "gamers" to know the breakdown of each gen, but GenZ is a very split generation with heavy segments of conformists and non-conformists and we'll have to see how GenZ transforms in the next 5-10 years.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1101912Blaming the fans?

Who are you, Disney?

LOL. That was very funny!

ArrozConLeche · September 03, 2019, 04:36:47 PM

Quote from: HappyDaze;1101227One of my biggest turn-offs to Eclipse Phase is that your character lives and dies by their in-game social media reputation and involvement. Some parts of the setting are very interesting to me, but that cornerstone of it definitely is not.

In the novel Accelerando, there's a sort of reputation-as-currency system. Wonder if this is what it's like in EP.

HappyDaze · September 03, 2019, 05:57:59 PM

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;1102104In the novel Accelerando, there's a sort of reputation-as-currency system. Wonder if this is what it's like in EP.

It is and it isn't; they say that the rep-based economy is not "rep-as-currency" but it really seems to play out that way. They say it's not mainly to distance it further from the traditional economy of the vile capitalists of the inner system (and Jupiter) that are heavily vilified by the pro-anarchist writers.