The TTRPG Shift?

You ever just realize everything about something you love changed when you weren’t paying attention? It’s happened to me twice when it comes to tabletop Roleplaying Games. In 2014 Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition released to the public and took the ttrpg space by storm. It was a throwback, self-referential, nostalgic game that built on every edition that came before it, but what made it stick was the gameplay was really good. Simple enough, easy to understand, enough complexity to keep that crowd interested, but with a flexible core set of mechanics that let the people playing the game real