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D&D Is Not Worth $150
‘Dungeons & Dragons 2024’ is a time- and money-sink
A while back, a beleaguered dungeon master posted his 44 table rules online. These 44 rules weren’t tweaks to D&D’s game mechanics. They were a list of procedures and standards he would ruthlessly enforce at his table going forward. They included timing players’ turns, enforcing chess-like piece-touch rules, and encouraging rules-lawyering of other players but NOT him.
This is your brain on Dungeons & Dragons.
As Dungeons & Dragons 2024 — aka D&D 5.5e — creeps closer, the game’s goodwill with the fanbase continues to crumble. Hasbro has stepped on every PR landmine presented to it. Between trying to cancel its long-lived third-party open game license last year and using AI art in Bigby Presents: Glory of Giants, Hasbro has not been wowing gamers in the court of public opinion. Hasbro went a step further by hitting Jorphdan’s Jocular Junction — a YouTube channel — with a copyright strike for showing art from the new edition. This is doubly bizarre considering that Hasbro sent the YouTuber the review copy!
This is a bad time for D&D when you consider its failure to enter the halls of pop culture royalty. Hollywood wants nothing to do with Dungeons & Dragons. There will be no sequel to Honor Among…
