It’s fortunate that Wizards of the Coast can’t keep it in their metaphorical pants and keeps trying to go for all of the money in the most obnoxiously predatory ways and has done so since at least 4th edition and its attempt at a virtual tabletop monopoly and “blind bag” miniature peddling.

I need to train myself to stop saying “D&D” for tabletop fantasy games because I am not going back again. I left before, and this time it’s permanent. Fuck WOTC. guts-rage

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    Srsly tho D&D is kinda mid when it comes to RPGs.

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    The main reason D&D was even a thing in my tabletop groups was brand recognition. It was very hard to get them to try, let alone consistently play, anything else. One time I miraculously got them to play the Heavy Gear RPG version that even Dream Pod 9 basically abandoned in favor of “clix” plastic trash.

    D&D requires so much home brewing by the DM it’s like why I am paying WotC for these rules?

    Very true. The resurrection system alone is such an unexamined society-breaking plot hole (why would anyone even worry about some king getting assassinated if the royal coffers could easily resurrect them in pretty much any reasonable circumstances, over and over and over?) that I tend to have to house-rule limitations on it or just abolish it altogether for death (and life) to have any reasonable tension in the setting. Left as-is, funerals are like a mockery of how poor a dead person is that can’t afford the rez toll and I could imagine some grieving friends and family sometimes threatening the clergy for their pay-to-play miracles.

    I still have to call Pathfinder “D&D” around my group.