This. I don’t see any problem with gunpowder at all. Plenty of D&D settings and systems, as well as competitor‘s settings and systems have had them. Hell, leave out gunpowder if you want and call them Dwarven spring bows. Either way, I don’t care. Just don’t justify it through easily verifiable falsehoods.
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“associate influencer manager” what the actual made up job is an influencer manager?Dungeons and Dragons Creator Summit Turned Into a Roast of Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons and Dragons influencers and third-party publishers grill Wizards of the Coast on its business model during the recent Creator Summit.
Probably not the kind of coverage Hasbro was hoping for.
They're not eliminating anything, but other than specific crosses that are distinct and consistent, the half-(whatever) rules are now "Pick one, RP any physical traits from the other side that you want".
From running Warhammer, I feel matchlock is the best option for balancing it against other weapons, but I don't know if Hasbro will want to present their players with anything they can't spam every round.
It's the person who wrangles Youtubers to get them to say what WotC wants. In this case, I assume it's a guy who will be looking for a new job soon.
As has been stated, the hullabaloo is really over them claiming all classic D&D settings have gunpowder weapons.
Well that’s also overblown imo. So many posts about a throwaway line at a PR conference is borderline questionable.
Probably. Given that Hasbro is entirely responsible for turning what were hardcore fans last year into people ready to jump on any mistake, I have no real sympathy.
Why are there so many posts? One post proving the falsehood is enough. Oh yeah, it’s because all the people who “don’t care” have to tell everyone else they care too much.
Actually I'm looking at it and seeing "musket = shorter range heavy crossbow with +1 damage" that costs 1/2 to 3/4 what a basic magic weapon does and ten times as much as the low end healing poition, while wondering what the grenades and bombs will look like.Why are there so many posts? One post proving the falsehood is enough. Oh yeah, it’s because all the people who “don’t care” have to tell everyone else they care too much.
It's all about integrity in elfgames...
Right. My first rule in reaction to AD&D was no half-elves, we are strictly sticking to Moldvey races. But then those Dragonlance novels came out and everybody was suddenly wanting to roll up a Tanis Half-Elven variant. "Damn you Weis and Hickman!"
Which makes me think of Steven Erikson's Malazan books and his sappers who were always were amusing to read about. You had explosive undermining walls, mining streets etc. Good stuff.
I really object to what Wizards is going to end up doing to D&D and this influencer gathering didn’t do anything to change my perception.
Maybe there would be less posts if people didn't keep trying to turn things into a meta-discussion about why people supposedly care so much.
Didn't know that. When I wanted to restrict the use of fire arms in games I made gun powder act like cocaine for fire elementals. They could sniff it out for miles.
That‘s one of my concerns. D&D is going to be more and more watered down as more cooks get in the kitchen. It was mentioned on one of the YouTube channels I watch that Wizards has hundreds of people working on the VTT, whereas it only took a handful of people to craft each previous edition. This most likely means that they will not put anything in the game that does not easily translate to the VTT.
Meh. If they burn D&D, so be it, another game will take it's place (Again).
"Influencers" are just RPG community members with a larger voice, though; this wasn't a group of people inventing a problem and kicking off about it for the sake of kicking off on the internet, it was a group publicising a very genuine problem with what WotC were doing and drawing community attention to it.
