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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [The Gamer] Dungeons & Dragons' 2024 Rules Won't Get Going Until
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:18:51 +0200
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On 9/16/2024 6:12 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:41:02 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Source:
>> https://www.thegamer.com/dungeons-dragons-2024-rules-dnd-2026-book-phb/
>>
>> Dungeons & Dragons' 2024 Rules Won't Get Going Until 2026
>>
> My major complaint about the new rules coming out is that they feel
> unnecessary. Well, unnecessary to the player, anyway. A new edition
> should be a significant revision to the game, otherwise it feels very
> much like an attempt to just sell the same books to players twice.

Well, yeah, that's what they make their money with. Everybody and their 
gran already have the 5e books. Gonna move units somehow.

(incidentally I never bought the 3 core books because they just would 
have been for the shelf and I didn't want to spend 150$ on that)

> 
> More, a major revision should have _purpose_ to it other than just to
> exist. That purpose should be to revamp the rules to be correct
> mistakes or problems, or to significantly change the tone and texture
> of the game. I've not seen enough significant complaints about 5th Ed
> rules that would require the former, and everything I've seen about
> 6th Ed (or whatever WOTC wants to call it) indicates it isn't doing
> the latter.

I noticed that they are very careful about calling it 6th ed. I guess 
for them it's closer to the 3.5 release: not a complete reworking, just 
different enough so people have to buy new books. That's how you get 
people to buy new books without scrapping your whole environment. Or at 
least that's what they hope.
I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being their 5.5 release, and the 
actual new 6th edition comes in 2030.

> 
> Maybe instead of churning out new rules every five years, WOTC could
> concentrate on creating adventure modules and settings.
> 


yes, they should, but it always has been the case that modules and 
settings just didn't sell as well as rule books. People need to have the 
rulebooks, multiple ones even if you want to use it as a table reference 
book. But settings and modules are only ever bought by DMs.
There's financial incentive to release mostly rule books for them.