Originally Posted by DistantStranger
So how much this feels like Dungeons and Dragons has a lot to do with when you got into the game. If you ever played second edition, with percentile dice on hide depending upon how much ambient light was in your environment and how attentive individuals were to their surroundings, you probably expected a real gritty, grounded setting and atmosphere with narrative structure uncomplicated enough for any age to appreciate but possessing some nuance for mature tastes. Humor? Absurdity? Sure, comedy breaks up the tension, but it should be still treated more seriously than not. Right? Well if you don't think so then you may have started with 3rd and your experience was less like literature and more like a big budget film. Mostly grounded, but with some over the top elements. More fun than serious. Fourth? Fifth? Superhero cartoons. These are generalities based upon what you could do with the system, individual experiences will obviously vary. . .As will what each us of consider quintessential Dungeons and Dragons.

If this game tries to please every fan of DnD it will end up a failure. It simply can't make all of that work together. It will end up inconsistent and flat. The video games pretty much paralleled the systems. The first was THAC-0 based and rooted in 2nd edition mechanics while the Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal were influenced by 3rd edition. So this series is intrinsically linked to DnD as it was and will appeal primarily to people who loved prior iterations. It should come as no surprise then that this game is going to be a departure from both of its predecessors though. WotC wants to increase the attraction of their brand and satisfy the latest generation of players, and that is precisely what the prior sequel did as well just with more finesse. Disappointment is not unreasonable.

Having said all that give those people who want refunds their money back. +1



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Remember this? https://youtu.be/5YGc4zOqozo

United Airlines broke a guitar that belonged to the lead singer of a tiny Canadian band and refused to shell out the 1500 bucks it would have cost to repair it after six months of claims and calls, so the band wrote a song about it. It got a million views the first week it hit Youtube and United ended up losing 180 million dollars in share price fall over the whole affair. Larian has more to lose than a few people's purchase - like the goodwill of potential fans and the future success of this title


Not really. They said they are making DnD 5e, so it shouldn't matter when you got into DnD.
Point is, right now the game has taken too many liberties with the 5e rules, which is the issue. DnD 5e is the current edition, and the official DnD as of right now. So talking about ADnD or 2e or 3.5 is a little irrelevant.