Slop.

What's the "Bluesky" of D&D?

Edit: Or Mastodon, etc.

Apparently polytopia isn't even particularly interesting as a civ game or RTS or whatever it is.

Keep feeding him ketamine. He can't buy DnD if he keeps having to changed his soiled pants.

There was some bullshit about the licensing. I forget what it was, but it's a string to be pulled in the cultural web

I haven't played Pathfinder 2e, but from what I've read if you want something like D&D but deeper and with rules that work, it's the superior choice. If you want shallow but still somehow complex, D&D is an okay pick. Some people legitimately do like that D&D 5e just has some initial weirdness to learn, and then you can coast on "I move and attack" for the rest of your career.

Personally, I prefer Fate for a light weight game. It's also free. https://fate-srd.com/fate-core

Pretty sure wizards of the coast has already been found to have accepted AI art

Also Magic has been a little trash for a while now. Spiderman as a summonable monster?

You know, I can see them torn on this.

Anime booba might make them happy and own the imaginary strawman that didn’t actually exist during gamergate, but anime is made by scary brown people and not Red-Blooded All-Americans^TM^. Also, booba might be too sexy and sex is an eeeevil invention of the debbil!

Madison Square Garden has been totally sold out for several live-play dnd games at this point, the ship has sailed on "geek" hobbies being insular.

Stop-posting except it's people begging billionaires to stop posting on Twitter

Isn't DnD something you build from scratch in paper?

Kind of. Wizards of the Coast sells the rules to the game and sells pre-written adventures for groups to play. Many groups use the pre-written ones, many groups make their own adventures from scratch. In the past when WotC has pissed enough people off, plenty of people kept playing D&D but simply stopped buying new books. Plenty more people switched away from D&D to other (frankly better) games.

The thing that complicates this now is the prevalence of digital tools over pen and paper. I haven't played D&D with a group that used paper sheets in years. The problem is that WotC is very strict about not allowing anyone else to build tools that compete with their subscription-based digital character sheet. If you want to use a digital sheet, you have to use D&D Beyond.

And D&D Beyond is expensive. The last time I looked into it, you had to buy digital copies of the new books you wanted to use at the same price as the hardcovers. And then if you wanted to share them with your table (and you definitely do) you needed to pay a monthly subscription. This results in a lot of groups with a major sunk cost of the hundreds of dollars tied up in online content. Leaving that ecosystem would be "wasting" the money they put into it.

You can. It's called "homebrewing" (adding/changing rules to suit your needs) and "hacks" (using the core rules of an RPG while transforming it into something else, like using the rules for D&D in a game set in The Sopranos). D&D has rules you can play straight from the book(s), which a lot of groups do.

....which is one of the problems of D&D. It often requires so much homebrewing and so many house rules you're better off just making your own rules to begin with. Or using a system with a narrower focus (like playing an organized crime game, instead of trying to force The Sopranos into D&D).