[P] I've been trying to pin down why I dislike the D&D 5.5E artstyle so much. I'm an amateur artist with a wife who's so talented, so I do pick up things. In my twilight though I'm not always sure I have the vocabulary for it. But thwn I saw someone use a descriptor that hit me like a tonne of bricks. "Focus-tested." I mean, yes, it's soulless and so homogeneous, but it's so much worse than that. It's corporate-by-design.
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[P] And seeing that they're going digital with a subscription model? It clicked. The closest modern experience to those '80s cartoons is a certain era of mobile games. For the younger out there, reading this, it might help to say D&D by way of Candg Crush. It isn't even inckusive, either. So much of Gygax's detestabke sexism is still baked into this digital subscription live service product. I don't like what that suggests.
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