The only way I get 5e products these days is when one of my kids needs to buy me a present.  They look at the small, 5e section of my game shelf and look for a missing item.  I don't have the heart to tell them to stop getting them for me because at least they're trying to get me something, and something I don't have.  But I've stopped making the effort in supporting them.  There are some decent 3rd party products, and the core game up to a certain point was...okay.  But the game moves further and further from what it used to be. 

Who needs Woke Of the Coast when you can just play the many flavors of Savage Worlds and OSR games

I decided not to buy the new "Radiant Citadel" book because Jewish writers were excluded.  I will not stand for this blatant act of anti-semitism on the part of WOTC.

Hmm... now that I think about it, the name WOTC, sounds a lot like a certain German Socialist Worker's Party....

Quote from: Lord Dynel on June 03, 2022, 02:10:03 PM
The only way I get 5e products these days is when one of my kids needs to buy me a present.  They look at the small, 5e section of my game shelf and look for a missing item.  I don't have the heart to tell them to stop getting them for me because at least they're trying to get me something, and something I don't have.  But I've stopped making the effort in supporting them.  There are some decent 3rd party products, and the core game up to a certain point was...okay.  But the game moves further and further from what it used to be.

Understandable, and I can applaud your kids for trying.

To be fair. Alot of the 5e books are perfectly fine for like 90 to 99% of the books.
There has been very little power creep overall and they have only put out like at best 2 system books per year. And keep in mind that some of the modules are not actually from WOTC but outsourced to other publishers. Kobold Press did the two Tyranny of Dragons books for example.

The problem comes from A: WOTCs dirty marketing. And B: the seeds of agenda that pop up. Though in some cases its so small as to approach the 99.9% range in a few if the books I have so far or have glanced through. And C: about every other book marketing, for god unknown reasons, loves to lie about whats actually in the book. Early on it was just false claims about what the theme was. But later as the SJW disease spread, it turned ever more to baiting disguised as virtue signalling.

Radiant Citadel is just the most disgusting of the lot so far. Whats next? The all handicapped writers book? And odds are that it will turn out to be another marketing lie somehow as to what the book actually contains.