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So, let's talk about siloed experiences
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in Dn D 5e because chances are a lot of
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people watching this video play with one
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group or with a small number of groups
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and have played with those folks for a
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very long time and their experience with
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those groups has been largely consistent
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and that narrows your perspective on the
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game as a whole and the hobby as a
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whole. About a year and a half ago on
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the RPGbot podcast, we had Wolf Gang
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Bower and Celeste Konovich from Cobalt
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Press on the podcast to talk about Tales
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of the Valiant during the beta process.
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And one of the things we talked about
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was the changes to ability score
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generation from the 2014 5e rules to the
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Tales of the Valiant rules. And when
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they were researching what changes they
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might want to make to that system, they
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realized that they had siloed
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experiences and differing opinions due
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to those siloed experiences. For
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example, Celeste said that she and her
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group always use standard array. Whereas
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Wolf Gang said that his groups always
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rolled for ability scores and me and the
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people I play with, we always do point
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by because it is consistent, flexible,
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and eminently fair. And everyone had
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perfectly fine reasons for why we do
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those things. But each of our selective
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play groups and like the circles we
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traveled in had wildly different
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experiences within the same rule set. So
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not always that people aren't talking to
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each other. It's that sometimes we're
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not playing in the exact same games. We
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are looking at the same rule set from
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different perspectives. And sometimes
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that means we arrive at different
