Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast

• dumples@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gross. I was really excited for 5.5 for a while but don’t really want to get it anymore. I liked the PHB class upgrades when I read it but don’t own anything from it yet

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  • caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    5.5, in my opinion, is a very corporate edition of the game. There wasn’t any actual change or reason for a new edition other than Hasbro wanted D&DBeyond and the money it got, and the way to do that was make a “new edition”. But people liked and were playing 5e so, make a backwards compatible system that’s totally the same thing.

    The 2024 version of D&D, in my eyes, doesn’t fix any of the actual issues with the game. They change some wording and change some abilities but none of the core issues are dealt with. So to me, it’s a pointless cash grab.

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    • dumples@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I like the changes with weapons properties and I like some of the updates with various classes for some improvements to the weaker subclasses and feats. I overall enjoyed the majority of the changes.

      However, from what I have heard and seen I did not enjoy the changes to the Monster Manual and statblocks.

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