Wow, what a cashgrab. I wish they’d just announce six already. We should totally buy Hasbro and carve out Wizards as a community
I really stopped following all of the new rule changes after the SRD / OGL debacle. I will likely get the physical books but never the digital only. I’ll wait until they are all out though. Also what a terrible 3 book bundle you don’t save any money
I’ll probably stick to 5e and switch to a different game once Hasbro forces DnDbeyond to disable 5e content. The only answer to enshittification is complete boycott.
Hasbro forces DnDbeyond to disable 5e content
Serious questions:
Can you elaborate on this? Isn’t D&D just a book of rules, which can be used to the letter or changed per campaign? How would anyone force players to switch to another ruleset? Are they SWATing sessions and confiscating old rule books?
DnDBeyond is a tool that you can use to play your campaign. It also has and offers the rule books but also campaign books digitally for your account.
So no, when you rely exclusively on the hardcopy books that you have to play the campaign, then this wouldn’t really matter much to you. However, when they decide that you cannot use DnDBeyond to keep track of your campaign and characters and so on with a previous version then you would either need to convert to those new rules or not use DnDBeyond anymore.
Also to note that most online references that aren’t illegal are on dndbeyond so if you want to look up rules it shows to first. You can always look in your book but that is much more work. There are other legit tools but will follow the companies lead. They did this already with one source books
I haven’t purchased any digital content and disabled by dndbeyond account. Also haven’t purchased and physical books since the OGL. We are in the midst of a years long 5e campaign so we will have to discuss changes together as a group.
I genuinely enjoy the 5e system so I am torn. But if I get physical books I can keep them forever. So who knows
I’ll be honest, the playtest was handled so badly and most of the changes were so lazy, that I lost all the interest in getting the new rulebooks. Not that I had any to begin with, after the OGL shitstorm.
I created revised options for the base 5e classes to play with my friends, and I’m having a lot of fun that way. I’ll pirate legally obtain these new books down the line if it becomes necessary, but me and my friends are accustomed to homebrew everything, so I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
So are these different from the upcoming rules changes they’ve been playtesting? The 5.5 changed as I’ve been calling them?
Also, anyone know what the new Crafting rules?
No one knows the new crafting rules yet unless they were released in UA somewhere. I think they were just teasing them.
From my understanding, the rules will be same or similar for some things and revised from play testing for others. This is the culmination of that work and everything else they’ve been working on.
carve out Wizards as a community
I don’t know where the idea that WotC is worth saving keeps coming from. These are the MTG people. It’s a shock that monsters, NPCs, items, and feats aren’t purchased via booster pack.
D&D isn’t a game, nor is it a community. It’s just a brand. We can let it go.
Sucks for them, because I’ve moved over to Pathfinder after Hasbro tried to screw us and gutted WoTC. Most people I know have done the same too. They had plenty of opportunities to make it right and just kept rolling a 1 each and every time. Shame too because I love 5E
