would you play your least fav edition if asked by friends

[GMforPowergamers]

Ok, simple question. Lets say you had the time and money to go hang out with 4-6 of your good friends tomorrow for the 40th birthday of D&D, but one of them said "Hey I'm DMing X" where X is the version of D&D you most dislike or like the least.

Would you go to play the game you dislike? what if it was the only game you could go to, so it is literally that or nothing tomorrow?


In my case that would be my first GM (we played rifts but it was my first PnD RPG) who doesn't play with us anymore because he went pathfinder. I really could see myself going but practically begging to play any other D&D (Even offering to run(. I just really dislike pathfinder.

Now this isn't a real life case (I have a birthday party to go to tomorrow anyway) but after the whole schism thread I just wonder. I don't know if I would if I could suck it up for one day or not.

 

[Morrus]

Of course. There's no such thing as a game I hate so much I won't play it with my friends. I'd feel a bit broken if there were.

 

[innerdude]

Of course. There's no such thing as a game I hate so much I won't play it with my friends. I'd feel a bit broken if there were.

Exactly this.

 

[Jester David]

I play in a bimonthly Palladium game because friends play.
I've run one 4e campaign and played in another because that's what the friends want.

So yes.

Any game is better than no game, playing any edition is preferable to sitting at home and watching more TV.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Any bad games I play in are invariably because of the Dungeon Master and never the game itself.

If I'm comfortable with the DM... we could use Yahtzee as our game mechanics and I'd be perfectly happy to play and would end up enjoying myself.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Nope. I'll catch them next time. My friends have hobbies I'm not interested in, as I'm sure I have hobbies they're not interested in. And that's okay, where our tastes intersect, we enjoy each others company, where they don't, we do not. I enjoy hiking, but I didn't ask my D&D buddies to go camping last week when the temperature was below zero. I had a blast, but they wouldn't have.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Yes. I would play. Who i am playing with is more important than what i am playing

 

[Ahnehnois]

No.

It calls back to a time when a friend of mine invited me to go roller skating. I have no balance whatsoever. I hated it and ended up leaving sore and unsatisfied. Simply because someone I liked was doing it didn't make me like it. The same sort of thing happens all the time. If a friend invites me to some activity I'm a little sketchy on, I'll probably give it the benefit of the doubt, but if I know it's going to be a problem I won't do it, and on the occasion I do I end up wishing I hadn't.

I have better things to do than participate in recreational activities that aren't fun for me. Life's too short.

 

[Elf Witch]

Yes to celebrate the anniversary I would. On a regular basis no. I have found that no gaming is better than bad playing.

 

[was]

I'd play, but make them bring the beer.