Gyor
Savant
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2017
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5e had so much promise. It was the one ring of D&D editions, uniting players.
The PHB contents were great (although the physical quality was shit). The MM was great. The APs are very hit and miss, mostly miss.
But I didn't want to admit it to myself, but the D&D 5e Team are lazy fucks.
The first sign was Xanathar's Guide to Everything. 17 mother fucking pages of names!!! That is a half hours work, a full hour if your picky, not including art and layout, for 17 pages. You can find free name lists and random name generators that are not only free, but actually do a better job. Outside of the demihuman names, it's just RL culture names, seriously I could do this list in a half hour.
Mythic Odysseys of Theros has 2 new races, 2 new subclasses vs the dozen new subclasses in each Arkadia and Odyssey of the Dragonlords.
M Time of Foes Elf section is a huge mess, they added this Ravenqueen 2.0 to FR, with NO FUCKING EXPLAINATION WHY SHADAR KAI ARE NOW ELVES, WERE THIS NEW CREEPY BITCH COMES FROM, OR HOW IT FITS IN WITH PREEXISTING FR LORE.
The Gnomes/Halfling chapter ignores Luiren and the Ghostwise Halflings.
VGTM mix FR and general lore carelessly.
Almost every None AP/none setting book is suffering from identity crisis, because they release books so slowly that these books have to be Player options/DM options/Monster Manuals/and some other stuff all at the same time, when they could be seperate focused books. And on top of that some books like XGTE have pages of filler, because WotC will only publish UA material with 70% approval.
They keep having to use a guy that worked in the D&D Magic the Gathering department who already HAS A JOB, to write several of their releases for them (James Wyatt Ravica and Theros books).
They decided after making hundreds of novels, and buying a company TSR they made many more, that they aren't a novel publishing company, and cancelled the novel lines at both D&D and MtG sides, while only occasional contracting out novels to third party publishers which has caused big problem MtG side at least. Wasted fucking opportunity, seriously waiting till D&D is as popular as its ever been to cancel the profitable novel line, brain dead move.
And there best books from the last few years, Eberron: Rising From The Last War and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, were largely written by third parties, Rich Baker and James Wyatt, for Eberron and Matt Mercier and his team for Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. And Matt Mercier basically apologized to the D&D community for his book coming out before all the traditional D&D setting books, so basically he had to apologize for something that wasn't his fault, that WotC is lazy as fuck.
WotC has been costing since right after the core books were published, core books aside, Matt Mercier/critical roll has more to do with D&D 5e's success then WotC has, and if Matt Mercierwas in charged you'd have your favourite setting book updated to 5e by now.
I don't watch critical role, so I'm not some fan boy saying this, I'm just seeing what is going on, and I read Matt Merciers post to irrate D&D fans aka his don't blame me because WotC is lazy letter.
And if that wasn't enough, they label all kinds of books including 5e books as racist because of woke fucking morons who wouldn't know real racism if it bite them in the ass. Worst yet they tell anyone sick of woke stupidity that they don't need our business. Fine fuck you WotC, I cancelled my order of Mythic Odysseys of Theros and you can blow me until you smarten the fuck up. So now they aren't just lazy they are arrogant too, ignoring how much of their success early on old school fans and now increasingly dumb luck. This isn't a boycott and I'm not trying to cancel WotC, just fed up with it's bullshit, and sub-par quality and woke cultist sack licking of WotC while rest of us can go fly a Kite.
If they want me back they can start producing quality products and stop shitting on fans.
The PHB contents were great (although the physical quality was shit). The MM was great. The APs are very hit and miss, mostly miss.
But I didn't want to admit it to myself, but the D&D 5e Team are lazy fucks.
The first sign was Xanathar's Guide to Everything. 17 mother fucking pages of names!!! That is a half hours work, a full hour if your picky, not including art and layout, for 17 pages. You can find free name lists and random name generators that are not only free, but actually do a better job. Outside of the demihuman names, it's just RL culture names, seriously I could do this list in a half hour.
Mythic Odysseys of Theros has 2 new races, 2 new subclasses vs the dozen new subclasses in each Arkadia and Odyssey of the Dragonlords.
M Time of Foes Elf section is a huge mess, they added this Ravenqueen 2.0 to FR, with NO FUCKING EXPLAINATION WHY SHADAR KAI ARE NOW ELVES, WERE THIS NEW CREEPY BITCH COMES FROM, OR HOW IT FITS IN WITH PREEXISTING FR LORE.
The Gnomes/Halfling chapter ignores Luiren and the Ghostwise Halflings.
VGTM mix FR and general lore carelessly.
Almost every None AP/none setting book is suffering from identity crisis, because they release books so slowly that these books have to be Player options/DM options/Monster Manuals/and some other stuff all at the same time, when they could be seperate focused books. And on top of that some books like XGTE have pages of filler, because WotC will only publish UA material with 70% approval.
They keep having to use a guy that worked in the D&D Magic the Gathering department who already HAS A JOB, to write several of their releases for them (James Wyatt Ravica and Theros books).
They decided after making hundreds of novels, and buying a company TSR they made many more, that they aren't a novel publishing company, and cancelled the novel lines at both D&D and MtG sides, while only occasional contracting out novels to third party publishers which has caused big problem MtG side at least. Wasted fucking opportunity, seriously waiting till D&D is as popular as its ever been to cancel the profitable novel line, brain dead move.
And there best books from the last few years, Eberron: Rising From The Last War and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, were largely written by third parties, Rich Baker and James Wyatt, for Eberron and Matt Mercier and his team for Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. And Matt Mercier basically apologized to the D&D community for his book coming out before all the traditional D&D setting books, so basically he had to apologize for something that wasn't his fault, that WotC is lazy as fuck.
WotC has been costing since right after the core books were published, core books aside, Matt Mercier/critical roll has more to do with D&D 5e's success then WotC has, and if Matt Mercierwas in charged you'd have your favourite setting book updated to 5e by now.
I don't watch critical role, so I'm not some fan boy saying this, I'm just seeing what is going on, and I read Matt Merciers post to irrate D&D fans aka his don't blame me because WotC is lazy letter.
And if that wasn't enough, they label all kinds of books including 5e books as racist because of woke fucking morons who wouldn't know real racism if it bite them in the ass. Worst yet they tell anyone sick of woke stupidity that they don't need our business. Fine fuck you WotC, I cancelled my order of Mythic Odysseys of Theros and you can blow me until you smarten the fuck up. So now they aren't just lazy they are arrogant too, ignoring how much of their success early on old school fans and now increasingly dumb luck. This isn't a boycott and I'm not trying to cancel WotC, just fed up with it's bullshit, and sub-par quality and woke cultist sack licking of WotC while rest of us can go fly a Kite.
If they want me back they can start producing quality products and stop shitting on fans.