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We just want good complete micro transactionless games

Edit: that are also well optimized

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[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck these people, they did every single thing wrong with their product and the only people who do good things with it are independent content creators. Critical role made D&D the thing to play in the internet age and Larian made a great game with it. Meanwhile D&D under Hasbro has done...what? Fucking nothing is what. They give you shitty books with 95% fluff you don't need and/or makes no sense, but it has a new subclass for each class in it. Are the classes good? No! No they are not. But while you buy those books anyway please take a look at our 100$ deck of cards that we pretend is gonna make you able to create great adventures on the fly. Nevermind that the whole mechanic of it could fit into a few pages of text as die roll tables.

They can't even publish all the 50 year anniversary D&D books in their 50th anniversary! They also said those books are a combined 1000 pages as if it's a value add or impressive, when the current 3 books also have that combined page count. They basically want you to re-buy your books for 50 bonus pages and the only value add you get will be some fucking focus-tested subclasses. Will they be good? WHO CARES! Even if they are good, the classes will get put on the internet within a day and you don't need the rest of the books at all!

Don't buy any D&D products. Don't give money to these people. Let their company die.

Also, play better games. Fabula Ultima, Lancer, Sentinel Comics TTRPG, there are innumerable games that do any genre you could ever want better then D&D does fantasy.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

play better games

I'd heavily recommend people who want to play DnD but better and without Hasbro look at Pathfinder 2e.

Fixes all the major issues with DnD (boring combat where melee gets glued to each other due to attacks of opportunity, no variety in actions outside of magic, broken balance, mandatory healer, etc)

It's also being produced by the only unionized TTRPG company.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 3 points 7 months ago

There used to be a whole Pathfinder instance. No idea if it still exists.

[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Second pathfinder, it can be really deep if you want to, something I feel DnD 5e can't do.

There's also games if you like them (they don't have the value and presentation of BG3 obviously).