I love to have a great conversation about TTRPGs , I just want to share the joy of tabletop RPGs with the world. I probably don't fit your narrative.
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Sales. Once an edition has reached saturation, sales slow to a trickle and they need to get people buying new books.
This is a fatally flawed strategy but Monte Cook talked about this. 3.5 was being discussed when 3.0 was released.
4e is also the line for me where WotC started to pursue an imaginary audience. We think that came in around 2020, but I would argue it came in with 4e and 2020 was just a change in which imaginary audience.
DnD will never be a corporate level success as a game. A small number of people drive the experience (the GM) by buying the books. So it's a feature of the hobby that only a fraction of the group will convert to a sale.
4e is the system where DnD abandoned all pretense of a world outside of the encounter. I don't think they thought of it that way, but that's the effect it had. The game had the vibe of button mashing ability spam, and we already had that in a better form.
Great breakdown of why 4e failed by @mikemearls
My additions:
A TTRPG is more than sales, it's the community that drives sales. Yes, setting books don't sell as well, but they establish a base shared experience, etc. Thread 🧵
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play how you want is still good advice and the core of a TTRPG. The problem started when it became "Play however you want, as long as it's this way"
It started out using OSRIC 3.0, pretty strict but became a mix other OSR concepts and my own design with an eye of keeping the intent in the game. I'll do some dev updates talking more about this in the blog as I go. Traps, backstap, and more are all in the queue
A great IP like Mass Effect shouldn't die because the studio can't manage itself. There should be some kind of abandonment clause that allows fans to continue it.
This "if I can't love you, nobody will" approach is terrible.
Thanks! Developing this game has been a deep dive into the design and trade offs of early OSR games. There is a lot of genius in it that we've lost over the years.
Right! I'm unreasonably proud to have found a place for it in the game.
It's a trade-off. Triggering a trap can make noise, attracting monsters.
There is a complex interaction between risks in OSR games that modern DnD has lost.
Spent the night sending my adventuring party through a meat grinder of traps in Grimshaw. Pits, spiked pits, falling rocks, scything blades, arrow traps and poisoned needles are all in.
Spot one first and you can set it off with a 10'-pole. Nobody has to stand on it. #gamedev
Well. That's that. Bioware is screwed afterall.
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Sure, but I also suspect most people complaining would have been find if they policed social media to make sure the person wasn't too woke or radical.