My 5 predictions for DnD, ttrpgs, and the OSR in the year 2025!
I hope your predictions come true. Wokeness in gaming has really hurt the quality of many games. OSR is a great scene with quality books that I pull from for my own games I run in different systems. WOTC just needs to go away at this point and hope they sell the D&D license to someone who cares.
Good video man. I think the possessed wokies are capitulating.
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I think the 2024 election was a big turning point for wokeness in media. Companies had been sold the idea that this is what the wider audience wanted and that critics were just a vocal minority. The results of the 2024 election threw a big bucket of cold water on this delusion. Trump won the popular vote too? Maybe this isn't as popular as we were told. The stubborn refusal of the "modern audiences" to turn up for any of the things that were aimed at them is another big factor. Sooner or later, reality asserts itself.
Quote from: yosemitemike on January 05, 2025, 07:39:35 AMI think the 2024 election was a big turning point for wokeness in media. Companies had been sold the idea that this is what the wider audience wanted and that critics were just a vocal minority. The results of the 2024 election threw a big bucket of cold water on this delusion. Trump won the popular vote too? Maybe this isn't as popular as we were told. The stubborn refusal of the "modern audiences" to turn up for any of the things that were aimed at them is another big factor. Sooner or later, reality asserts itself.
Donald Trump got 46.8% of the popular vote in 2020, and he got 49.9% of the popular vote in 2024.
The realistic conclusion is that there's plenty of market for conservatives, and there's also plenty of market for liberals. The big question is reaching either of them.
At the box office, there have been a lot of flops - but still, the top film of 2023 was _Barbie_, and the top film of 2024 was _Inside Out 2_. I suspect that in 2025, most films will be trying to emulate the previous top successes.
In TTRPGs, I'd love to see an expansion of non-D&D and non-D&D-adjacent RPGs, and I think we might get some - but I suspect it will be incremental. D&D will still be the elephant in the room, and most successful projects will be either third-party for D&D or close to D&D in genre and/or system.