Sorry to hear you lost your little pal. I appreciate how a pet can be family.

Quote from: Omega on November 28, 2024, 06:19:16 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on November 28, 2024, 04:04:08 AMI think that a large section of the people still buying WotC products fit into one of two types:
1. People who started on 5e and have no idea that there are real alternatives.
2. OCD nerds who have an obsessive compulsion to buy EVERYTHING that has the thing they're obsessed with; many of these hate all the recent WotC books but keep buying it because if they didn't they wouldn't have "teh whole collection".

Another is the players who just blindly believe wotc and their mouthpieces that this is "Still 5e"

These are a bigger problem as they will buy something thinking it is still 5e compatible. Then learn it is very not and are stuck with a book they either cant use or will have to heavily mod to get it back to actual 5e. And a portion will then buy more fake 5e books because otherwise they have a useless book.

Also. Is anyone else getting an intermittent "You have already submitted this" flag?

Others will keep buying because they can not seem to conceive that anyone would lie.

Then there are the ADD wanna-bes who will rage against whatever new sin wotc has comitted. Then all is forgiven at the first bone wotc throws the dog. Then rage again when wotc turns around and kicks them AGAIN!

And lastly there are those in complete denial that fake 5e is not fucking 5.5. Its a new system and it is not "backwards compatible."

You have a point about compatibility, for sure.

Now that I have a copy of the new PHB I can say the whole idea that there's compatibility between 2014 and 2024 is legitimately a lie.

It's sort of like trying to say 3.5 and 3.0 are 'Compatible' with one another. Yes, in a sense you can use a 2014 class along side of the 2024 class, but there will be signifigant differences and challenges with some of the combinations and how they interact with one another.

I've mentioned in other threads, I know it's not popular to say this, but the new PHB is a legitimately improved iteration of the 2014 rules. Now that I have the new PHB *IF* I were to run a "5th edition" campaign, I would want to use the 2024 edition.

In particular the new MM previews have drawn complaints from players because the new monsters "Seem unfair" and can do things "Players can't do." Overall it seems monsters have been streamlined but also buffed... and all I can say is..

Good... Because that was one of the primary problems with 5e, the monsters being weak bags of HP. As much as WotC has done a bunch of shitty things, and the books have some woke shit..

Mechanically it's a better version of 5th edition.

Yup.