Is D&D’s Culture Changing for the Better?

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The Culture of D&D is changing through it's 50 years of history, since 1st edition through to 5e. Which generation of players do you belong to?
Featuring:
Chris Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD)
Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford)
Ed Greenwood (‪@edgreenwoodofficial‬)
LaTia Jacquise (@LaTiaJacquise)
Shawn Merwin (@shawnmerwin)
Alex Kammer (@GHC_and_Tacos)
Justice Ramin Arman (@justicearman)
Makenzie De Armas (@MakenzieLaneDA)
Ben Byrne: (@TheBenByrne)
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@cameronpearce5943 5 ай бұрын

I love Ed Greenwood so much. He's such a swell guy, but also, the man has achieved something so few of even the greatest writers do, which is a self sustaining, evolving world that will grow and continue and never be forgotten. And his words about the Greyhawk fans are very true, and im so glad their hard work preserving the setting has paid off.

@Carnagepwnz 5 ай бұрын

This is exceptionally well edited. I love the way you have used peoples statments to help punctuate points made in another interview. You've blended them all together into one ongoing conversation that feels like they are congruous.

@GhostfireGaming 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! The connection points in different folks experiences and stories were really fascinating.

@thewelshdm 5 ай бұрын

I adore hearing how people first encountered D&D. That first adventure is still embedded in my brain over a decade and a half later. The Copper Bottle tavern, danger in the graveyard, and a hellhound. Was dope

@Tacocat225 5 ай бұрын

This video is not only inspiring, but also absolutely well shot and put together! Phenomenal video and thank you for sharing!

@TopcatsLair 5 ай бұрын

My first roleplaying game experience was making up an adventure with no rules as a kid that a friend could play on long school excursions while on the bus ride there. And then D&D specifically my first dungeon master was a lady who ran her own homebrew campaign using 3.5 edition rules back in early 2000s. Been hooked ever since.

@ChuckSeville 5 ай бұрын

D&D - and RPGs in general - is/are the easiest way I've ever found to awaken the creative spark in other people. As a DM, the first time I see it in the eyes of a player that they've fully bought in? Man, what a feeling. Every world you create is slowly folding back towards the real one, connecting in all the ways you need it to. It truly is a magic trick - a wonderful misdirect. You focus on the dice, on the numbers...and before you know it, anything is real. EVERYTHING is real.

@matthewsnow-zj1cu 5 ай бұрын

This video leaves me hopeful for the future of the broader hobby and the game of D & D itself. You all put together a fitting piece not just about the culture of TTRPGs, but also the people who make that culture possible. It was wonderful to hear their individual stories about how they were introduced to the game and how they each took their love of it in directions that allowed them to foster creative expression. Thank you for sharing this.

@MonarchsFactory 5 ай бұрын

So many great insights from so many people!

@margaritoamargo6347 5 ай бұрын

Would love to meet Ed Greenwood someday. I have had an absolute blast for the past 30 years or so playing in the Forgotten Realms setting he created. Just an amazing world and I love reading all the books.

@zethandrews3860 5 ай бұрын

Ed we will forever be grateful for the forgotten realms and the stories you told and the books you wrote, you are truly a master.

@Marc1ace 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful! It’s always been about good times with friends and creating memories. It doesn’t matter what edition you’re running or what setting you’re playing in. If you love this game as much as I do, then you are a friend at my tables. Thank you guys for this video ( although I would have thought WOTC should have made something like this)

@cameronpearce5943 5 ай бұрын

I love hearing about other peoples entries into the realms of TTRPGs. For me it was my best friend running the Sandpoint Saga pathfinder box set with DND Next/5e rules back in highschool. I tried getting some games going after that with Phandelver and the Star Wars TTRPG, but mostly was just reading the various monster statblocks. I started watching The Unexpectables and a few other D&D shows with folks from Team Four Star on them before finally joining a few long running games. There was a fantastic game of Dragon Heist run by a local AL DM, and then a friend of mine ran us through Rime of the Frost Maiden. Then, right before the pandemic I found out about my cities Adventure's League scene. I volunteered at one of the big conventions to run a few one shots, and then coming out of the pandemic I've been running games with them ever since. I got my Wizard up to 20 with a Staff and Robes of the Magi, and even ran an 11-17 level portion of an Epic (multi table event).

@matthewsnow-zj1cu 5 ай бұрын

Congrats. That’s awesome.

@Enn- 5 ай бұрын

THIS is fantastic! Thank you for sharing these interviews!

@MikChaos 5 ай бұрын

began back in '83 with the Red Box from the BECMI series, quickly transitioned into 1e, then 2e. Tried 3rd but didn't like it and switched back to 2e. Took a brief break then came back in to 4e and then into 5e and been running that ever since.

@slaapliedje 5 ай бұрын

5e to me seems more like 2e, but with more colorful pages, less content, and fuzzier rules. But then again, I mostly skipped 3rd and 4th, and only briefly played 5th before going to Pathfinder 2e, and really have been playing GURPS since I stopped playing 2nd AD&D in the early 90s.

@utaguta 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful! What a wonderful and at times emotional journey. Thank you!

@brentrevello134 5 ай бұрын

That was inspiring. It also shows how the people who play and love the game will keep it alive regardless of what the companies do.

@matthewsnow-zj1cu 5 ай бұрын

Well said.

@bluesnake4626 5 ай бұрын

Great video, love seeing so many perspectives

@SilverScribe85 5 ай бұрын

In spite of EVERYTHING that's happened, I love D&D! If I hadn't played it for the first time back in the 2000s, when I was a High School Junior, I wouldn't have gained the inspiration I wanted/needed to become a writer. No other fantasy game has been able to hold my interests for that long, not even Warcraft or Warhammer

@TheSouthernPirate 5 ай бұрын

It's always been open & welcome. The change is who is vocal and who WOTC is trying to market to. Which results in the main player base being ignored in favour of new customers. Which is why there are the repeated failuress by Wizards. Which is why 3rd party companies like Ghostfire Gaming, Kobold Press, etc, are doing so well

@odinulveson9101 5 ай бұрын

DC 20, Kobold Press with Tales of the Valiant is my equal favorite to Free League with Dragonbane and Spillforlaget Dragon Breath. Tales of the Valiant bring * gasp * Yellow chromatic dragons! And purple Void dragons! WotC is so complacent, spiteful not filling in each of the main 3 true dragon families with 5 more each😂 Creature Codex have orange Wasteland dragons, Tome of Beasts 3 have prismatic rainbow dragons and brown Sand dragons! And I asked mr DC 20 about including ignored D&D chromatics like yellow, orange, purple, gray and answer was.. YES! Im a dragon addict deal with it😁

@hawkname1234 5 ай бұрын

Ghost fire, Kobold Press and the other games are doing well because WotC - foolishly - gives away almost all of their work and community to fund those other groups to compete with them. No other company is so altruistic / foolish. And yet everybody says they are terrible.

@joanmoriarity8738 5 ай бұрын

It's great to see the rise of indie games like Monsterhearts, Masks, Alice is Missing and Thirsty Sword Lesbians. They go where Hasbro and WotC won't go, and their games provide unforgettable experiences that you just don't see in mainstream "kill the monsters get the treasure" type games. I hope they continue to grow as the hobby reaches more and more new people.

@grr-OUCH 5 ай бұрын

D&D's culture is changing, but that is because culture is changing. It has nothing to do with the game itself. My start with D&D was when my dad brought home the red Basic D&D boxed set. I bought the four follow-up boxed sets while still in elementary school, and then joined a group that played AD&D when I was a young teen, and we moved to AD&D 2nd edition as its books came out.

@andya5456 5 ай бұрын

Wait, Jeremy Crawford is from SLO? Thats my town. I never knew that.

@BCSully83 5 ай бұрын

Jeremy and Chris are brilliant stewards of the game we've all loved for years. Unfortunately, their bosses are greedy corporate raiders who have left me wanting nothing to do with a game I've played since 1978. I'm out. Not one more penny on this game until WotC sells the IP to a more reputable publisher. Too many other great games out there for me to keep getting suckered by the greediest corporate bully in the business. F*** WotC.

@mrcatchingup 5 ай бұрын

1-The only case I heard of someone not being welcomed on unfair terms was a friend telling me when she was a girl, her brothers told her girls are not allowed to play. I think she said they were all in the 8-12 year age range. I don't disbelieve her but it sounds to me like more a problem of 2 immature children more than gate keeping by the community as a whole. I doubt that specific example carries much weight if people claim they had a hard time getting into the game because they are female or a minority(she was but so were her brothers). That example was decades before I never met her. I never saw someone turned down from the chance to participate unless they had several cases of bad behavior. 2-Behavior at the table, even away from the table can be a justification to stop inviting people. I interrupt more often than many people feel comfortable with. I would not do so as often if people both read and comprehended the rules more often. When I am given an ultimatum to leave or shut up, I rather leave than stay with a bunch of cheaters. Other people may find themselves unwelcome for other behavior. It is preferable to let someone know their behavior is unwelcome and give them a chance to correct but if they insist on the same behavior, they have to accept the consequences. Even with these stances, I have never seen someone unwelcome for no reason they were not responsible. Extremely few in the community are immature 8-12 year olds like the example in #1. As a whole, the community is extremely open to giving people a chance, even people that never opened a book before.

@dantherpghero2885 5 ай бұрын

Do a Google image search: High school D&D clubs in the 1980's. Yes there will be a lot of white male players. but you will see female players and players of all types in many of the photos.

@CountAdolfo 5 ай бұрын

The only reason you predominantly see white males is that was who PLAYED. It has nothing to do with not including others... they CHOSE not to try it

@Carcerian 5 ай бұрын

It's only a matter of time till Wotc finds Ed Greenwood "Problematic"...

@cernunnos_lives 5 ай бұрын

That's when I start sending emails to the right people lol.

@sambro6657 5 ай бұрын

Any update on when we are getting the third party content creator summit on d and d beyond?

@hawkname1234 5 ай бұрын

The online TTRPG community has become incredibly entitled as influencers peddle disinformation to monetize outrage and take “share of wallet” form WotC, even as they are entirely dependent on WotC’s work and player base. The culture is on a terrible trajectory, dominated by selfishness and dishonesty.

@prizepig 5 ай бұрын

San Luis Obispo represent!

@BunnyNiyori 5 ай бұрын

Simple answer. No. The game evolved. I don't hate all the changes. But I hate that it is going digital. Sure I'm a grumpy boomer that helped create D&D in the 70s. D&D isn't a f**king video game. And the original game that we call BECMI only required the BE part to be great. It stopped being the game I love after AD&D 1st edition. 2nd had too many confused poorly made books. 3rd was just a math crazed edition with too many people wanting a piece of the action. 4th tried to go back to minis, but role gamers weren't interested in wargaming. 5th was the last straw. It proved the owners only want your money and couldn't care less about the game. And 2024 is inexcusable.

@TVMAN1997 5 ай бұрын

Culture is dictating what is being allowed to exist in dnd 5e as a result anything deemed problematic is being cut. Thus a process of sterilization Things that were once unique are cut and not replaced. Alignments are a good example of this Getting rid of negative ability scores on certain races and making all the speeds the same Make all ability scores all tied to the back ground rather than a unique array for each race

@davidhall1311 5 ай бұрын

The culture isn’t changing as it’s always been an open and welcoming community.

@josheshelman6728 5 ай бұрын

Yes and no. Before it was a 70/30 split in favor of gatekeeping up until about 2015 when it started to shift. And now it’s about 80/20 in favor of the kind and accepting. COVID had a lot to do with it

@bustertn2014 5 ай бұрын

@@josheshelman6728 Not even close to accurate. I have played DnD since 1979 when I was 11. In that time, we have had guys, girls, white people, black people, latin people, straight people, gay people, religious people, non religious people etc. What we didn't have is a large company telling us we were all racist for thinking Orcs were black people and correcting us that they were Mexican people. I can't say I EVERY thought that, nor did I nor any of my fellow players actively keep anybody who wanted to play out of the game due to any of the above boxes. Nowdays DnD has become a joke. After playing for over 38 years, I don't know anybody who was every told there wasn't room. In fact on more than one occasion, our group numbered over 10, with people coming and going over time for one reason or another. The idea that THIS generation is so much more inclusive than earlier generations is a joke. The current generations are busy cancelling Gary Gygax because he played with white guys, well, guess what the population makeup was of his town. My groups were mostly white, why? Because I am white, my immediate friends were mostly white, but that didn't mean blacks or anybody else were excluded. I also played sports, they were mostly non white. Hmm. How uninclusive right? The other thing that never came up during out games is the sexuality of our enemies etc. It was at best secondary, and usually, not even thought of. This entire idea of gatekeeping is silly. It's just another case of the current generation thinking they are better than other generations because they are easily triggered and are the first ones to call someone else names or attempt to cancel them without even knowing context. I personally think those that can't stand Gary Gygax etc due to his beliefs back in his time, should NOT even play. That will show'em.. And as for the shut down. We played during Covid. We played through the entire thing. We had a few guys drop for a session or 2 due to not wanting to spread it, but overall, almost all of us were working anyway and were being exposed everyday.

@Usernamesdontmatter1 5 ай бұрын

@josheshelman6728 I've been in the community prior to the so called shift of 2015. I've known people who have been in the rpg community longer than myself. You are full of it. The only shifts was we got an influx of people who liked critical role and people who wanted to change the culture and lore of the rpgs to suit their political affiliation. My group has been gaming for decades. We have been extremely diverse and have been accepted. The only time we ever had a problem at a gaming place was after your so called shift. One of our black members got outed as a conservative and certain not nice words (thanks KZbin I can't talk about my friend being discriminated against) were thrown at him. The hard r got thrown at him by people who were clearly, by the other words thrown at him, left leaning. We were asked to leave because the freaks who were bullying our friends were related to the owner. I think the community has gotten way more gatekeepey after your supposed shift in the timeline. It used to be "hey we like the same hobby. Nothing else in the moment matters" now it's "you must be in lock step with everything the group believes in or you get out." Hell you have a wizards of the coast executive who publicly said "White men should leave the hobby" as a white guy and a minority in my own group. The gaslighting that the hobby got more accepting with what I have personally experienced is laughable.

@teraxe 5 ай бұрын

@@josheshelman6728 No idea what you are talking about as far as this made up shift or whatever. But there has always been gatekeeping and there still is. Heck I have talked to people that actively want to gatekeep the hobby because they feel it is becoming too mainstream and that is ruining it. You can argue that it has lessoned over time, simply due to the vast increase in players and ways to get into the game.

@TwistedTentacleInn 5 ай бұрын

@@josheshelman6728you may need to take a deep look at the gaming group you had back then because it just be clouding your view of the hobby back then. In most gaming groups I knew from back in those days everyone was super welcoming of everyone. So I disagree. It has always been welcoming. Maybe now it's more accessible because of online tools and more widespread knowledge of the hobby and recognition in pop culture. But certainly not more welcoming. In fact, I'd argue it's less welcoming now, as people tend to push out those who are seen as not "Left enough". Unfortunately a ton of people bring politics into something that has nothing to do with politics.

@Deathking000 5 ай бұрын

Is there such a thing as grimfolk in grim hollow

@raymondharnack4160 5 ай бұрын

Some of it is good but some is bad, very popular right now but a bit too boring in some ways.

@bamboozledgreatcrowd8982 5 ай бұрын

They are so afraid people will steal their toys they make the dumbest decisions

@johnharrison2086 5 ай бұрын

The title for this video is very misleading. Completely unrelated to the content.

@escapadesrpg 2 ай бұрын

This is about a commercial product and the fandom it needs to sell. The actual culture of TTRPG around the Blackmoor Bunch and their successors rolls on pretty much independently although of course related.

@howardheater8749 5 ай бұрын

DnD is a community of people who hate themselves. The makers just want money, the fans fight over everything, and most games dont finish. Feels bad playing this game for 12+ andcan'tt get 4 people together on an agreed day. Dnd is dead. Stop kicking it.