Feeble Dungeons

Ez.

And like, if this is you, here's a screenshot that will shake your worldview to the core:

D&D5e and its marketing team have deliberately constructed an industry ecosystem that obscures competitors instead of directly competing against them, and they can only really do this because they are basically a monopoly.

Because D&D5e players are allowed to know so little about other TTRPGs, they are led to believe that D&D5e is the default way a TTRPG is. Any flaw and critcism of D&D5e therefore, logically, must apply to all TTRPGs, even ones they have never heard of.

D&D5e is massively expensive, therefore all TTRPGs must be massively expensive, and there's no way they could afford to buy new rulebooks, so they just make memes like this and don't even try.

D&D5e combat sucks, therefore all TTRPG combat must suck.

D&D5e is hard to learn and ineligantly designed, therefore all TTRPGs must be hard to learn and ineligantly designed.

In this way, WotC never has to improve their shit to compete in the market, because the lower the customer's opinion of D&D5e falls, the lower the customer's opinion of all competitors falls with it.

If you're reading this and you are at all interested in trying anything outside of D&D5e, but don't know where to start, here is a link to a post with a bunch of resources for doing just that.

@leadhelmetcosmonaut

I might've added the BG3 Art Book to my dnd assets stash

It' 100% does not have things like the 5e players' handbook + 5e’s character sheet, several gm guides, critical role's explorer's guide to wildmount, baldur's gate and waterdeep city encounters, 101 potions and their effects, volo's guide to monsters, both of xanathar's guides, a bunch of other encounters, one shots, and class builds

In no way are there any pdf’s relating to any wizard who may or may not be residing on any coast

These still need sanding and inking.

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