Re:Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
by dagw on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:16AM
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Another aspect I just thought about was that in 90s and 00s there was a lot more diversity of games that were popular. Most people I knew played at least 2 or 3 different games with very different styles and I knew lots of people who never played DnD. Now everybody I talk to seems to play DnD only.
Just the fact that the tile is "D&D map makers..." instead of "RPG map makers..." is very telling.
Re:Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
by bluefirebrand on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:10PM
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Also true. Everyone I knew would have a game of Shadowrun or World of Darkness or whatever else if you wanted. At the very least there were Pathfinder groups.
But now I don't even see Pathfinder out there much.
I think DnD podcasts and webseries and such were incredibly successful in cementing DnD as the only game in town. They brought in a ton of new players who have only heard of DnD and only want to play DnD.
In the 90s and 00s it was almost always about the minis and tactical gameplay. DnD 3.5 was a lot more numbers heavy so it kept a lot of the story people out of the game.
Now DnD 5 the numbers have such a gentle, predictable curve with bounded accuracy and damage and stuff, you may as well ignore them because there's nothing exciting about rolling the dice anymore.
So the story is a lot heavier focus, the character journey. I never used to encounter people who got upset if their character died or groups who had the mentality that characters must always fail forward for the sake of the story.
That stuff is everywhere now.