I look at my article views, and D&D articles generally don't do as well as random games, and very few play some of the ones I cover. It feels like the end of an era, or maybe my audience is a bit more diversified, and other sites are better for D&D.
The only exception is Level Up Advanced 5E. Those articles do well. I get the feeling Tales of the Valiant landed like a thud with the not-D&D 5E crowd, not many changes, plus a rewording of 5E was not what people wanted. Most of the Open 5E crowd bought into A5E and saw no reason to switch.
Tales is still a nice game. The spell, monster, and adventure support is top-notch. In many places, A5E is still far ahead of ToV, and ToV is scrambling to catch up and forge an identity.
ToV is more the game you want to play if you like 2014 D&D and want the fixed game that 2024 promised. You don't like many rule differences, and the game should play exactly like 2014 with very few changes. ToV kicks 2024 D&D to the curb and is a better game, with classes that are better built for fun at the table.
ToV is the game 2024 should have been.
A5E changed a lot about 5E. The 2014 version of D&D was utterly wrong in many areas, even the math. A5E is a complete rebuild of the system instead of a clone, and a lot was changed under the hood for the better. A5E is AD&D for 5E, pulling in a lot of great rules and concepts from 3.5E and 4E, while keeping what made 5E work so well. The game is not easy; the play testers wanted it more deadly, and they got the game they asked for. They wanted game rule support for every pillar of play.
A5E is the game that 2014 dreamed it could be.
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