You knew it would come to pass

Brothers and sisters, my message to you today is a simple one: do not trust the white man bearing gifts.

Fifth edition has been announced (to no one's surprise, which has got to be some sort of record for a holder of the D&D license), although they are calling it a new "iteration". Wizards of the Coast wants to do open playtests, and have the fans give feedback and shape the development of the game. Their goals seems to be inclusivity, catching the largest amount of fans possible. And they are going to use the Forgotten Realms to catch the gamers, though it remains to be seen

Now if I was a wanker I would link back to a post I made some time ago about how WotC could start acting like a responsible producer of D&D products and win back the fans. But I'm not. You know why? 'Cause all that shit I wrote was obvious. All the shit I wrote would be in the introduction of a report by a marketer, with the real meat being everything else. If I could see it, Wizards of the Coast could see it.

But back to my sermon, let me tell you a history lesson. When the white man first set his foot on this new world, he brought with him the disease. The indigenous people had no resistance to the disease, and so they died by the thousands as the disease ran rampant. At first the white man came bearing gifts and friendship, and his disease. But once the numbers of the indigenous man were small, they came not with gifts but with guns and cannons.

So remember, WotC may be nice to you now, they may promise you the keys to the mansion in Bel-Air, but once they win back a majority of the fans, they are going to come after you. And you must resist, because what was made and what is being made is beautiful, and we cannot let the good works be forgotten.