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How many people do you know who haven't switched to 5e, and why haven't they?
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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6722665" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I spent a couple of years promoting it in casual conversation, as something I'd like to try when our 4e game came to an end. In fact our 4e game is still going, but over the past year or so we've had trouble making quorum for 4e and hence the BW game has started as the alternative.</p><p></p><p>Besides my own promotion of the system, key has been one of my players - who is very technically savvy and also likes intricate PC motivations/backstories - buying a copy of BW Gold and falling in love with the system.</p><p></p><p>As far as the mechanics are concerned, we rolled it out bit-by-bit. The first session or two only had versus test plus a little bit of magic. So far we've also had 3 or 4 duels of wits, 2 fights!, and 1 or 2 range and cover shoot-outs.</p><p></p><p>The biggest ongoing complexity is, in fact, tracking tests and artha expenditure for advancement. It's a book-keeping heavy system.</p><p></p><p>The other thing about the system, which is a big contrast with 4e and I suspect would be with Savage Worlds as well, is how gritty it is. A <em>lot</em> of checks fail, and many PCs will start with low Resources which means that the PCs will be poor and hungry. In my campaign, the result of this is that three PCs are either in debt or in service to a fourth (the elven princess, the only one with a decent Resources ability).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6722665, member: 42582"] I spent a couple of years promoting it in casual conversation, as something I'd like to try when our 4e game came to an end. In fact our 4e game is still going, but over the past year or so we've had trouble making quorum for 4e and hence the BW game has started as the alternative. Besides my own promotion of the system, key has been one of my players - who is very technically savvy and also likes intricate PC motivations/backstories - buying a copy of BW Gold and falling in love with the system. As far as the mechanics are concerned, we rolled it out bit-by-bit. The first session or two only had versus test plus a little bit of magic. So far we've also had 3 or 4 duels of wits, 2 fights!, and 1 or 2 range and cover shoot-outs. The biggest ongoing complexity is, in fact, tracking tests and artha expenditure for advancement. It's a book-keeping heavy system. The other thing about the system, which is a big contrast with 4e and I suspect would be with Savage Worlds as well, is how gritty it is. A [I]lot[/I] of checks fail, and many PCs will start with low Resources which means that the PCs will be poor and hungry. In my campaign, the result of this is that three PCs are either in debt or in service to a fourth (the elven princess, the only one with a decent Resources ability). [/QUOTE]
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