Greyplains

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This is the official account for Greyplains. We make tabletop roleplaying games. We are working on things for weekly content, so look forward to that. www.greyplains.com

Hello, I am a tabletop game designer. I became a tabletop game designer because 5e was so bad it fueled a writing rage-bender that has lasted between the spring of 2018 to the present, and I am still mad.

With the possible death of 5e and birth of 5.5/One/lmaoXD D&D (and the popular consensus around WotC generally turning sour), I believe that it is now a reasonable time for me to dance on 5e's grave.

This blog-chain will be needlessly hyperbolic, because I think it's funny. But I am making a real argument despite my hyperbolic language.

Each one of the blogs will be dedicated to a single aspect of 5e that makes me wish I got isekai'd in 2014 by a Ford Raptor.

The first topic: the title. Notice anywhere where it says "5th Edition"? Because I sure don't. I'm sure at the WotC thought they were geniuses. "We're going to do away with editions," they said in their greige offices lined Drizzt Do'Urden pinups, twinkle in their eyes. It'd be a shame if they ever exhausted all their marketshare with a single edition and wanted to re-release all the same slop over again with slightly different funny numbers, huh? Some short-term thinking if you ask me, pall-o.