D&D YouTube is Going Insane

D&D YouTube is slowly going insane.

There are videos out there with this whole 2024 D&D language change of "can you opportunity attack allies that leave your reach?" The book says "creature" which can mean anything, and people are abusing the rule to heal allies as they leave touch range.

This is why the D&D 3.5E introduction of the term "touch attack" is to toxic. A touch is not an attack. It is touching. Now, people assume, "Yeah! Touch ...attack!"

To me, you are stabbing your friend in the back as they leave. An attack is an attack. 

This is why I see zero future in 5E as a system. It pains me since there are versions of the game I like. When the game is more manipulating about the rules than the story, you have lost me and about 90% of the general audience.

We are left with the 10% of the hobby that uses rules to their advantage, optimizes, and can't see how silly they are acting. When it reaches the point of using the book's language to gain an advantage, D&D is not a game anymore. It is a quasi-legal document used to abuse other people in the hobby with, so you can find the one or two words in a paragraph that say, "I win."

Nothing about the story, the characters, the adventure.

It is always finding the "I win" button with these people.

5E attracts the wrong type of people I would ever want to play with. While that is a false and fame-bait statement, as there are good people who play the game, that is exactly the impression I get by watching D&D YouTube. This is also going to be the impression of someone who has never touched a D&D book.

D&D is a game I would play if I enjoy getting into arguments about the rules. 

People that know the game better than me will make me look stupid.

I will never learn this. 

Those above lines? I tried to teach my mother to play many years ago, and those were essentially her reactions. This is not something to laugh off, it is a huge problem. D&D 2024 does nothing to solve the problem.

While Shadowdark does.

This "expert player syndrome" has happened to many games before, and this is always how an edition of Warhammer ends. When the language begins to be abused for in-game benefits, that is it, I am out. Most other people are too, they have better things to be doing with their time than to fight about verbiage and omissions of terms.

If you want proof 5E is dying, watch these videos.