Quote from: Ruprecht on October 13, 2022, 08:00:38 PM
did they announce the kind of things they would sell with micropayment in such? Historically the problem with Table Top games is you sell product to the DM not the players (at least until splat books tried to change that). This could be an attempt to get more out of players if thy sell you nicer avatars and such.

Its been tried as far back as the late 90s. Never caught on.

The biggest drawback is that these things tend to be massively ephemeral. Anyone who has had experience with MMOs and especially MSOs will likely be aware of this by now.

The other no-sell factor is... It is WOTC. Edition Treadmill-Failure is the only Option-Woke Agenda-WOTC. 5 or so years later 7e will come out and OneD&D will be dropped for their new TwoD&D VTT. Shell out more cash to by the new VTT platform suckers!

Quote from: tenbones on October 12, 2022, 11:54:14 AM
Welcome to my world. MOST DM's do not homebrew. Most DM's in 5e run only modules. If a DM leaves OneD&D's new ecosystem, if they play their cards right, this new version of D&D will groom players to engage in what is going to be basically a big X-Com game that requires very little if any actual DMing experience. I think they believe they'll capture players and groom them into believing *this* is what RPG's are about.

The only place i encountered that is with regular organized play in a hobby store.

What I have seen as far as home campaigns goes is about 75% published material and 25% stuff from other source or homebrews. Why because all of the Wizards adventure supplements are incomplete as far as a full campaign goes. So 5e DMs fill in the gaps using suggestions from the adventures or their own ideas. It is not particularly elaborate but it is not a situation where they are running cookie-cutter campaigns with the agenda set by some published product either.

The reason organized play campaigns are different is that there is a continual series of packets sent out to the stores that fill in the gaps left by the main adventures. In theory these can be obtained for use for a home campaign but as it been noted before, a large segment of the hobby is not internet savvy enough to know where to look for these downloads. So stuck with these books they have to come up with some of their own stuff.

It may be different with Pathfinder as Paizo tends to be more through in what they cover in their six book series. But the one I seen also have various gaps and lull points where the referee needs to supply their own content to keep the campaign going.