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Mearls interview on 5E and how it fell apart

Started by honeydipperdavid, February 25, 2025, 11:20:45 AM

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Ruprecht

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February 26, 2025, 05:35:11 PM
If 5.5E isn't selling well they can plan to make a 6E in a few years and claim 5.5E was just a compatible bump. I know if I took over Wizards that's what I'd do. I certainly wouldn't wait out the normal 10ish year life of a new edition.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~Robert E. Howard

honeydipperdavid

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February 26, 2025, 09:53:17 PM
Quote from: D-ko on February 26, 2025, 03:12:58 PM
QuoteD&D doesn't like its current customers and wants new customers

I mean, it's been years now since "white people can't leave soon enough", right?

Hasbro did fire Kyle Brink about 6 months later but they never apologized nor clarified Brink's stance.  It's ok, America is going back to the norm and all these fucked up gender faithers are being looked at as if they have shit for brains and syphilis for eyes.  Hasbro will have to adjust D&D or they will have a Disney Star Wars situation on their hands very soon.

honeydipperdavid

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February 26, 2025, 09:55:37 PM
Quote from: Horace on February 26, 2025, 05:07:05 PM5.5E doesn't seem to be selling well, based on Mearls's interpretation of the latest Hasbro earnings report. That wouldn't surprise me. Not many people want to learn new rules that are not different enough from the old ones to be interesting, but just different enough to be annoying.

IMO, 5.5E was a mistake that should have never happened. A re-organized PHB with an improved layout would have been fine. But changing just enough rules to break backward compatibility was a bad idea that will end up biting WotC in the behind.

We were already at 5.5E when WotC fired Mearls using the race riots of 2020 to justify firing him, putting up racist warnings on all pre 5E content, removing books that had racial or extended lore present (volo's and mords).  This is just the gender neuter faith element of WotC showing their ass begging to be fucked by corporate.

S'mon

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Today at 04:47:09 AM
I enjoyed his Prof DM and Questing Beast interviews. He definitely emphasised mechanics and gameifying of 5.5e as a reason for its failure, only referring obliquely to Woke as a reason. I think he's right that 5e was successful in 2014 because it was very welcoming to new players compared to 3e and 4e, he and Pundit etc did a good job. And the lack of any design ability from Crawford and co is evident. Still I think Woke plus general Evil (OGL scandal) is the main reason people really hate WoTC now.
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