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A lot of people are just more interested in the "role playing" aspect of D&D, and not the "game"; that's probably why 5th is more simplistic than what came before, so it would better appeal to the former group. I think the shift in focus happened around the same time the books started defaulting...

I never really got the hate for THACO; it always made perfect sense to me.

As far as I can tell, Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil are, according to Weis and Hickman's setting, the ideal alignments; the more people that are Lawful Good or Chaotic Evil, the more the balance of "good" and "evil" has been shifted too far in one direction.

It becomes a bit easier to understand when you realize that they conflate "good" with order, and "evil" with chaos; which was something a lot of fantasy writers got wrong back in the day.

Yeah; it's important to remember that the Weis and Hickman kinda jumped the shark with the setting long before woke political agendas got involved.

Honestly, The last edition I played was 3.5; everything since then just doesn't appeal to me at all, and even 3.5 was inferior to 2nd Edition in many ways, in my opinion at least. Then again, I always preferred playing the video game adaptations, in comparison to the original pen and paper; so...

I'm kinda hoping for Mystara personally; more people need to know about that setting. Then again, I don't trust Wizards of the Coast to not inject their regressive leftist politics into basically everything they touch; which I suspect was part of the deal with Weis and Hickman to write the new...