Re: [Techraptor] Wizards of the Coast Releasing Updated Dungeons & Dragons 2024 SRD at End of The Month

On 4/18/25 16:26, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:14:46 +0200 (GMT+02:00), kyonshi
<smaug@ereborbbs.duckdns.org> wrote:
 

Source: https://techraptor.net/tabletop/news/wizards-of-coast-releasing-updated-dungeons-dragons-2024-srd-at-end-of-month
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Wizards of the Coast Releasing Updated Dungeons & Dragons 2024 SRD
at End of The Month
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I can't get excited about this. While the rules of the game are
important to setting the tone and feel of the adventures, the rules
themselves aren't that interesting to me. D&D long ago reached 'good
enough', and constant tinkering with the system annoys me more than
anything else. I mean, sure, great, WOTC/Hasbro has learned its lesson
about the SRD but I really wish they'd also learn that adventures and
campaign settings are what really give a system its longevity. Nobody
into tabletop gaming remembers THACO but everybody remembers
Dragonlance; nobody remembers the rules about overbearing but we all
know about that sphere-of-annhilation trap in Tomb of Horrors.
 But adventures don't sell in the same quantities as rulebooks, and
it's the bottom line --not the health of the hobby, or the longevity
of the system-- that matters these days.
 

yeah, it's not really earth-shattering news. I mean, it basically is like a software patch. Except they don't even have any actual code to deal with.
I think people are too focused on the rules as they are presented anyway, but what do I know? I don't play 5e :D