We writers are a lot like strippers.
Ordinarily we hide our thoughts in civil discourse, but the page is our stage and if you get up there and you're not taking it all off and throwing your junk around like nobody's watching?
Then you're kinda doing it wrong.
I'm seriously starting to believe that Kung Fury came out in 2015, blew our critical reserves of awesomeness, and we have been unable to produce anything good since then.
Here's where I can be a stick in the mud.
Psionics has no place in D&D.
It should have never been introduced to the game, and even if they did they should have dropped it like a hot rock and never talked about it again.
Another problem I have with the Nu-Orcs is why are they so damn pale? This guy looks like an Irishman at the beach. If they're living outside in a sunlit desert environment you'd think they would have a tan.
I don't believe I'm saying this, but there is a slight chance that the guy on the front of the Basic Box is actually a gal, none other than Snarfquest's Telerie Windyarm - also by Larry Elmore.
A few details are off but otherwise the resemblance is uncanny. Take a look!
It's not just that they're changing things, but they're trying to make everyone who used to play the game look bad in order to make themselves look good.
As if D&D is a precious thing they stole from the KKK.
D&D undergoes a shift. People want to play heroes. They want to tell big stories about saving the world AND personal stories about knowing yourself. They want to play characters that they can believe in, not just grave-robbers and con-artists.
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I'm not!
But even this getup worn by Gina Lollobrigida would be an improvement.
Yes, we have become bigger prudes now than we were back in 1959.
I think Hasbro and WoTC have screwed up so badly over the last few years there is no way they could win this fight.
6e (and it is 6e) was doomed from the start. They should have farmed it out to somebody else.
Hopefully it will last 1 year before 7e is released.
Another thing they did wrong is the size of the Efreet action figure. They should have made it as big as one of the Shogun Warriors from the 70's.
(Damn that kid looks evil).
I think most talk of generational differences is total BS, but I will say that Gen X probably has the best sense of humor. It was probably all that time spent watching Saturday morning cartoons.
In the TSR days we would have been very hesitant to run anything for D&D not made by TSR.
Forty years later and WoTC makes D&D, and we'd be very hesitant to run anything for D&D made by WoTC.
There's a message in there somewhere,
not sure what it is.
Know what gets me about Honor Among Thieves?
Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall there being any merchandizing around it.
Rick & Morty got their own version of D&D
HAT got a version of Monopoly!?!
Did WoTC forget that D&D is actually a game?
It still bemuses me why D&D Honor Among Thieves didn’t do better with audiences.
As well as being a brilliant adaptation of the feeling of playing the game it has some of the best action and emotional climaxes in recent memory.
I really have to wonder what it was like making this table.
"Well Dave, you're wrong! The Guisarme gets a -2 against AC 3"
"And adding a Glaive brings it up to -1?"
"Yes it does!"
"But give it a Voulge and you get a +1 against AC 5."
Throws chair across room.
Gamma World doesn't use the word race but it has Pure Strain Humans, Humanoids, and Mutated Animals. It also has bad guy racists: Knights of Genetic Purity, Iron Society, and Zoopremisists.
It would never be made today for just that reason, yet it's so much cooler than 5e.
Another thing I used to love that they probably don't make any more. These guns contained a small fly wheel that would hit on a flint and throw sparks out the barrel.
Perfectly harmless, unless you were living in a trailer with a gas leak.
People who think you need a high IQ to play D&D are showing off just how low their IQ actually is.
AD&D Psionics!
Okay, maybe.
But the rest of the game is pretty damn easy to get.
How I would have ended the D&D cartoon.
After all these years of trying to find a way home, the gang finally does only to discover that they like where they are and can't bring themselves to leave it.
Adventure is discovery.
Buying a flying carpet at a magic shop is a purchase.
Safe. Mundane. Boring.
Buying an old carpet that might be a flying carpet or might summon an efreet or might just be an old carpet?
That is Adventure!
I love how WoTC bends over backwards and goes into full damage control when they discover that the Hadozee might resemble an obscure 19th century minstrelsy reference, but when they are caught sending goons to forcibly recollect some MtG cards?
They make a potato joke.
Know what was cool?
Bringing home Tolkien's books from the library, reading them, enjoying them, and not being swamped with politics and opinions and theories about the author and its fans.
In the D&D cartoon its a rollercoaster ride that takes the kids to the land of D&D.
But. That also means that other people must have ridden it, and come back out the other end seemingly unscathed or the ride would have been shut down.
This implies a few things...