"Dungeons & Dragons is Officially OVER" Topic

Say it isn't so!

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"Is this the end of D & D? And the answer is – yeah…/../…and no, I am not being hyperbolic"

So, that's official then.

Which does explain why all my D&D books and related materials just self-combusted….

Complete garbage YouTube channel. I saw her face and clicked away. 100% of her videos ARE clickbait.

Not her again…. 🙄

By the way, Chess is no longer supported by its original publisher. Someone better tell Magnus!

I just find it really funny….I realise not everyone would agree.

D&D hasn't been supported by its official publisher since WOTC bought TSR.

Yeah, I found that quite funny too in the video that none of the people who invited the game count as major influences on it (ok, they aren't involved anymore of course, but I laughed)

Has she ever done a positive video?

There's this one:

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Does "Officially" still mean what it used to mean?

Whatever.

I'm trying to work out the last time I played a game "officially supported" by anyone. I think it was about 40 years ago.

Exactly. I'm always puzzled at people who insist on a game being "supported".
What exactly does that mean?
My friends and I usually change the rules anyway, if we don't agree with the reasoning behind it.
Naturally, "tournament rules" are sort of immune, for obvious reasons.
Heck, I even tamper with The Sword and the Flame.

Back in the day when I played in WRG Ancients tournaments, they had Thursday Night Rules Seminars before the official tournament started the next day. This included the latest amendments. And of course "letters from Phil, clarifying and amending the amendment(s). "What's the postmark on your letter? Well, mine came after!"
Changes like "Page 13. Paragraph 4. Line 2. Delete "must". Insert "cannot"."
Some games, and I'm looking at YOU, WRG, were entirely too supported. So much, that it became a laughing stock. Was DBM as bad? I was out of The Hobby when it first came out.

As far as I'm concerned, the ONLY purpose of a "supported" new edition is a money grab. $$$$££££€€€€ The game is fine AS IS. But the revenue stream is dried up due to the customer base being saturated. So, bring out the "Hard Core Deluxe Edition, 7th Edition."
This goes for GW, Battlefront, and whoever has publishing rights to DnD now.

Is a "Harrumph" needed here, or would it be redundant?
By the way, that girl is annoying as 💩.

What an incredibly irritating person!

Horse Hockey

You know, I think maybe the worst single idea in miniature warfare is that money can be made by writing rules. For one, it's mostly not true: even setting aside labor, I'd be surprised if the majority sold for enough to pay the printer.

But what's worse is that it's detrimental to the hobby. "Commercial" rules have to be so long and complicated that you can't just run off copies for everyone to read before the game--which usually means the charging cavalry rule on page 18 doesn't quite like up with the infantry square rule on page 24, and the rules lawyers go into a feeding frenzy. And as soon as anyone gets near the break-even point, they start looking at a new edition--which, if they also sell miniatures, means new army lists so everyone needs to buy more troops. If they sell codexes or scenario books, you never get them all in the same edition. So in the end, you're pretty much back to "the rules as we remember them" and the umpire's decision is final, but you've spent a lot more money and created even more bad feeling.

"Unsupported" D&D might be a step forward.

We played White Box DnD, long before it became Advanced. 🤷
Felt no need to have scenario books, either.

There is much discussion in the gaming sphere of YouTubers about the use of clickbait titles and the YouTube algorithm that almost requires they use such titles, but this particular YouTuber has been doing this for a long, long time and is particularly obnoxious about it. Many of the others, who may still use clickbait titles, go ahead and have the substantive content of their videos be reasonable, whereas this one just dives in with exploitative, sensationalistic content.

What fascinates me is how Hasbro/Wotc continues the venerable TSR tradition of expanding foolishly and then ruthlessly terminating employees the minute they become inconvenient. That's been the story for over 45 years now.

But the game goes on, as it always will, no matter who's making money off it.

Wak, what an annoying, grating voice… and what sort of odd accent is that??

That would be Northern Irish. It's the bit of Ireland that remains part of the UK.

I love how every one of her thumbnails includes her sour face staring at you. She looks like a disapproving middle-school teacher.