tyrlaan
Explorer
My wife and I haven't switched.
I bought the PHB and DMG (unfortunately, considering the cost), and we tried playing it for a while but it definitely was a poor experience for us.
Fundamentally, I think it's easiest to sum up why we didn't like it by saying "it's not 4e".
- I've grown to like 'crunchy' combat where I have a decent amount of options on hand each fight. In comparison, I found 5e combat to be flat and somewhat boring, especially if your abilities don't come back until a long rest.
- I dislike 5e's return to long spell descriptions.
- I like all classes being relatively on par with one another and dislike what appears to be the return of the fighter-mage disparity.
- I really like the simplicity of monster building, heck DMing, in 4e. Easily the lowest prep time I've ever had. Maybe I could get similar results in time with 5e, but since it has other strikes against it already, my motivation to invest the time is not there.
Incidentally, I find it an interesting testament to the variance in taste from one gamer to another that I would argue there isn't enough 4e in 5e, yet [MENTION=6698278]Emerikol[/MENTION]'s dislike of 5e stems from having too much 4e in it.
I bought the PHB and DMG (unfortunately, considering the cost), and we tried playing it for a while but it definitely was a poor experience for us.
Fundamentally, I think it's easiest to sum up why we didn't like it by saying "it's not 4e".
- I've grown to like 'crunchy' combat where I have a decent amount of options on hand each fight. In comparison, I found 5e combat to be flat and somewhat boring, especially if your abilities don't come back until a long rest.
- I dislike 5e's return to long spell descriptions.
- I like all classes being relatively on par with one another and dislike what appears to be the return of the fighter-mage disparity.
- I really like the simplicity of monster building, heck DMing, in 4e. Easily the lowest prep time I've ever had. Maybe I could get similar results in time with 5e, but since it has other strikes against it already, my motivation to invest the time is not there.
Incidentally, I find it an interesting testament to the variance in taste from one gamer to another that I would argue there isn't enough 4e in 5e, yet [MENTION=6698278]Emerikol[/MENTION]'s dislike of 5e stems from having too much 4e in it.
