How do we save it?
How do we save it?
Stop making D&D so goddamn whimsical and pansexual.
Save it?
personally I really want something similar to vtm redemption, basically a crossover between an arpg like diablo and a rtwp crpg like the black isle games. and if they could set it in planescape or spelljammer and stick to 2nd edition that would be really cool.
You can't, their people in charge are retards and BG3's success was entirely due to Larian who fucked off as soon as it was done because they didn't want to be saddled to those retards.
D&D is a dogshit franchise.
Baldurs gate succeeded because it's 1) baldurs gate and 2) larian.
D&D is for faggots.
LITERALLY JUST LET LARIAN MAKE SOME KIND OF DLC OR STANDALONE EXPANSION TO BG3
HOW FUCKING RETARDED DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO NOT DO THAT? WHAT DID THE JOURNOS ACTUALLY CONVINCE YOU THAT RELEASING AN ACTUALLY FINISHED PRODUCT WAS A BAD THING?
forcibly take the IP away from Hasbro and JotC. that's the only way, period.
We don't, fuck Hasbro. Let it rot.
More like fucked off because the dumbasses at wizards fired all the people larian were in contact with
JotC
Is that Jesters or Jews?
play the next larian game and stop caring about a shitty IP.
jews of course.
D&D was already screwed since fourth edition which is why picrel exists which is better in just about every conceivable way. But to entertain the question, they could start by allowing people to freely create content around DnD without worrying about getting sued again and they could also just throw everything fifth edition and half of fourth in the bin and start over without the usual rainbow capitalism virtue signaling.
Larian went back to doing their own stuff and are working on Divinity Original Sin 3 under their own volition and honestly good on them.
Jesters would have been way funnier.
Hasbro always wanted MtG, they don't give a fuck about D&D beyond cashing in on le hecking wholesome bacon narwhal nat 20 fake nerds
DnD is cursed, and will forever be cursed. It's always had either incompetent leadership or greedy leadership or incompetent greedy leadership.
We dont
Larian should wrangle the rights for Warhammer fantasy RP next time
I liked pathfinder at first but they fag it up with gay shit just as much as wizards. Every fucking AP has yet another 'badass' POC/fag/woman/ect and its just fucking distracting. Why does every fantasy setting have to be infused with modern politics and fag agenda shit?
I liked BG3 because it was DOS3, not a big fan of the actual DnD system in it. The world wasn't kinda interesting either. Mindflayers were cool but the rest of it is just some usual fantasy.
At the very least it doesn't do it nearly to the same extent as wizards does which is straight up lore breaking for the sake of everyone being literally anything they want. Like a non binary drow cleric of Helm who is somehow chummy with surface dwellers, isn't a misandrist and is an abolitionist because why not?
wanting a nu-warhammer game
lmao
both dnd and whfb/40k are complete dogshit now
These retards, I swear they did everything they could to fuck over the BG3 development, then threw a fit when the game was a success despite it all. This was the type of project they were supposed to throw 200 million at and just let the developers do their thing. The fact the game had to launch in early access for 3 years and basically make its development cost off of those purchases shows how little respect Hasbro/Wizards has for DnD
I'm sure they will do just fine, Baldur's Gate 3 was made better by WotC influence.
tfw no gender swapping elves in combat wheelchairs d&d game
We don’t. Larian is the one who gave it soul. Hasbro deserves to go under for being a bunch of filthy kikes
Gay
You jest, but those are the things 5e legitimately introduced.
Crawford is a faggot.
How can you possibly make D&D more gay than what's currently in the books?
release the dark sun
I think all employees of WotC and larian should have a big meetup at a compound in the south american jungle and decide what's next over a cool glass of kool aid.
Have you tried not playing only Forgotten Realms?
How do we save it?
Hasbro/Wizards of The Coast/whoever "owns" D&D is in an enviable simple situation that I feel they're most likely too fucking retarded to capitalize on.
For them to PRINT MONEY all they really need to do is loan out (perhaps even providing seed money) the IP to smaller studios and creators who love the IP/Franchise and just let the "fans" answer the question as to "what am I supposed to do with this?" This is something Blizzard never realized, still doesn't understand, and always failed to capitalize on: some of the fans aren't actual dipshits, some of them are weirdly brilliant, some of them even love and understand the content better than the company, and you should be capitalizing on that whenever possible, you should be contracting them and encouraging their contributions to the brand.
Valve already does that
It should read the past 17 years, but the lead dev for Sigil's immediate predecessor kind of murder-suicided his whole family, so no wonder it was in development hell and ended up being not so great
Dark Sun is way too cool for the Modern Audience.
in D&D the simplest of magic can fix any physical bodily problem (aside from certain parasites) and even if you don't have access to said magic you can at least use potions which are somehow as abundant as water.
How the hell is anyone in DnD crippled long enough to be given a wheel chair?
We make it racist and sexist so retards leave it completely.
Hasbro did see a "future" in D&D though. The problem was that future is the same ridiculous bullshit everyone else thinks the "future" of their product is - online only, held hostage to company software, company store, and everything requiring subscription fees.
Unlike adobefucks though who can't stop sucking on that company's tit if it kills them, tabletop fags tend to play all kinds of shit, and if one of their staples fucks them over, they have all the room in the world to drop it like a noisy girlfriend and go out with one of the dozens of other products asking for their dick.
Save a shitty weg? Why?
More like fucked off because the dumbasses at wizards fired all the people larian were in contact with
Idk why this is so common, frankly
capable devs print you money at the meagre cost of getting paid a little themselves
enter suits
why would we pay these people when we own the money printer and can use it ourselves?
golden goose successfully butchered
LITERALLY JUST LET LARIAN MAKE SOME KIND OF DLC OR STANDALONE EXPANSION TO BG3
Larian doesn't want to work with Hasbro retards anymore.
Hasbro did see a "future" in D&D though. The problem was that future is the same ridiculous bullshit everyone else thinks the "future" of their product is - online only, held hostage to company software, company store, and everything requiring subscription fees.
I love how desperately they're pretending D&D Next isn't in the room as the next planned step for D&D.
Hasbro been fumbling it for 10 years
WoTC fumbling it for the 10 years beforehand
D&D is wild with how it's the mainstream-recognized tabletop game, yet it has consistently been run by greedy dumbasses since forever.
Anyone who knows anything about tabletop and fantasy knows the answer the answer to this. It's just a question of whether they're honest enough to acknowledge it and say it.
The activists and clueless corpo trash need to get the boot, normal guys who love fantasy, have spines, and don't belong in an asylum (hint: liking tits is healthy male behavior) need to be hired, and D&D needs to be targeted at normal guys again.
Larian CEO said it perfectly with his speech on greed.
Gygax would be proud.
Immolate yourself in front of hasbro's hq. That will do the trick.
Made the imbalance of the skill system even worse by gutting the cross class skill system
It's because everyone realized "why the fuck would we pay for the licensing rights when we can come up with our OWN generic fantasy setting and ruleset?". Essentially, D&D lost any recognizability it had.
Wizards has got to be simultaneously the luckiest and dumbest company to ever helm IPs that are cultural giants. I fucking hate them with a passion.
People in the vidya sphere aren't even aware of the tabletop OGL shitstorm that went down some years ago.
It's never going to be like that again because the "normal guys" are too poisoned. It was already beginning to crack way back in the 90s with writers and artists trying to diversify everything.
The current thing is to insert unrelated slop from your entire product line into your games, D&D miraculously doesn't have that even though the planar cosmology technically could support it
It could go the way of MTG any day though
Sadly, Paizo and WotC are both dead-locked in this retarded race as to which company can be the biggest virtue signaler while their flagship IPs burn.
thats basically how it works with all triple A devs
contract people to make shit
they make it barely work and function because extreme time limit crunch for seasonal X
kill of the team afterwards, so you don't have to pay them anymore, basically lose all people who "know" how the programmed game works
same reason why every big publisher/dev has UE 5. everyone "knows" the basic, but no one knows how to optimize it.
that's why I hate the chase for high graphucks fidelity, because it bloats the fucking games and no one knows how to fix it, because everyone who works on a game, gets fired
Doesnt hasbro explicitly stated they dont want video games to overtake the source material which is tabletop? Theyre like a dumber and eviler version of games workshop who sees success of their own IP as an affront to their business if it wasnt they themselves who made it.
Watch out anon, you may attract this guys simp.
I forgot Dark Sun actually got a campaign update for 4E. Planescape got the butt fucking in 5E, though.
Blood War ended
creation somehow still stands
truth is people no longer want to re-buy books for the new edition like it's traditional with tabletop rpgs
Everything is dogshit because creatives bought into the lefty lunacy. Battletech is deep in the shitter, for example. Even new creations like Trench Crusade went sideways pretty much immediately.
If you have several billion dollars you can probably buy Hasbro and toss out all the soulless suits and confused gender catastrophies that are working there.
endless war
ended
???
Shit's fucked yo
even harsher truth is no one's actually buying fucking anything. majority of new audience watches live plays and think they participate in the hobby.
Blood War ended
we will never get a DnD vidya outside of the Sword Coast
Its not fair bros
I know this isn't Anon Babble but if you have money to spend, try out Kingdom Death Monster. It's only fun if you got thousands of dollars to burn in a non-hero based setting.
why would you lie on the internet, they didnt end the blood war, its still ongoing as ever
That’s the worst sales pitch I’ve heard in my damn life
It's the only hurdle you need to overcome.
Wut?
Just make another woke gay porn game with bear sodomy. Simple.
Kingdom Death
can't tell if its underrated or overrated
who the fuck cares
the shitters at hasbro should bring back the good transformers games instead of more tabletop trash
Adam Poots, the creator, relies on freelance artists to illustrate the characters in pin up styles only to get butchered by some eldritch monster. I do remember a feminist article complaining about it.
none of those icky forgotten realms have handicapable access >:(
They tried to monetize it beyond just rulebooks from day one with collectible cards, minis and shit. Doing online subscription stuff is the logical modern hebrew practice
make game for straight people
don't be woke, fuck off with gayshit
don't be multiethnic pozzed shit
respect gender roles, unless you have a cool sexy exception
make characters attractive
Basically cater to normal people. You will never trick people again like you did with Balding Gay 3
That's too much to ask nowadays if you already did not know.
High fantasy shit is hard to work with anyway, and DnD is giga retard gorilla tier high fantasy.
high fantasy is fun to work with if you have a solid mechanical system in place
high fantasy is literally the most easy material you could possibly work with. Some good solid 7 out 10 games are high fantasy
buddhist monk sets himself on fire
becomes an icon of peace
some white bread does the same
forgotten a year later
and then they call it "competency crisis" to cover their asses
it's the sad destiny of america's law that demands highest possible profits for shareholders. it's a machine that by law is forced to disassemble itself and wear itself out eternally, while trying to work
they can't not fire every competent person, it would lower margins for this quarter even tho long term it harms the company. because a +1 tomorrow is more valuable than a +100 in a year because of Dodge vs Ford
Trench Crusade went sideways pretty much immediately
what happened to it? i remember hearing about it and it sounded cool
qrd
I may not be a professional tabletop player but what stops players and DMs from NOT playing gay nigga adventures? Just make your own story without all this slop.
instant chuddy war between left and right, after it got "popular" mainstream
Honestly don't understand why a part of the tabletop crowd keeps expecting a game that will finally say "race war now, Heil Hitler, kill all troons"
That way you get MYFAROG which sucked ass
think part of it that people expected the ultra dark fantasy christian crusade dystopia and then people started sperging, the moment the devs went not full right.
he talked about how many workers that make games good don't get credited at all. then he got cut short because they only give you 30 seconds to talk. you know, in case you say something that may piss off the suits
what are people even complaining about though? i haven't looked into it beyond hearing that it exists and is a heaven vs hell vs everyone type thing?
If anything, I'd say that normal guys are finding their spines compared to the era of Boomer culture. People who were whiteknighting like mad and acted like they were above having a sex drive ten years ago are openly giving women their sexual appraisals and calling out Karen. The dialog around feminism has changed so much that the critics' talking points have even slipped into the left wing echo chamber. The woke know that the woke are insane and insufferable.
In addition to that, people are very familiar with the woke personality type now. That effeminate nerd isn't a sweet, nervous puppy who needs a hug and a protector. He's the most spiteful, petty, self-absorbed person that you'll ever meet, and he will reward your kindness by maliciously destroying your life. He needs to be picked up by his underpants and crammed into a locker while he squeals like a girl.