We knew this moment when D&D 4 Essentials came out.
"It's dead, Jim."
At this point, with YouTubers beginning to take notice, D&D 2024 is a failed revision. Nothing will save this version of the game now. We are approaching critical mass, with people leaving for new hobbies, video games, and other entertainment. A small fraction will stick around and switch to a new tabletop role-playing game, but many of those are already on board and bought into their alternative of choice, Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and others.
And the products in the pipeline are confused. We have a starter set that feels like a cozy game —and... Dragonlance? Again? Didn't I just see that at the dollar store? With that hundred-dollar board game? Murmurs of Dark Sun? Leaning on Baldur's Gate 3 yet another time and riding a good horse until dead? I don't get the feeling the left side of Wizards knows what the right side is doing.
Even if they announce a 6E, who will trust them? They canceled their VTT, pulled the OGL thing, and messed up every classic setting with off-model rewrites and compilation adventures. I wouldn't trust them with classic 1E re-releases, since they can't fix the PDF errors and PoD issues that the community has known about for years.
The worst place you can be is a lack of interest, a lack of trust, and the appearance of a lack of care from the company.
People are even walking away from complaint articles like this. They don't care that 2024 is failing; they already know it.
So tell me something new.
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