Istbor
Dances with Gnolls
I'm overall pretty happy with 5E. I have some issues with a couple of the earlier classes, alphabetically, but those aren't game killers.
Where I've really been chaffing is that I'm feeling somewhat constrained by the system, creatively. I'm very much an old-school, GM is God, GM-fiat makes the world go 'round kind of guy. I don't say that in an authoritarian way, other than as a side-effect. I mean I hate stopping the game to look up a rule detail, whether that's squirrelly grappling rules or because a player thinks he should get a flat +2 in a circumstance instead of advantage.
Hmm. I don't get that feeling at all. To me, this has been the most 'freeing' edition of D&D I have played. No more solid rules for "what happens if I throw this potato at that hobgoblin, while it is sunny out", that 3e seemed to bring. Fiddly bits from 2e and 4e also seemed to hamper my creativity more than this current edition (2e was probably the least hampering). With this edition, I feel a lot more comfortable with making rulings on the fly, and not worrying about what the book tells me I should be doing. "I run the game, the game doesn't run me", and all that.
Reading your comment, I wonder the same, is it more of the Published adventures? I too decided to try published adventures this edition. I had never run one before, in any edition (as a DM). While I didn't dislike the experience, and still found enjoyment with it, it didn't feel the same as my own written campaign. So I stopped. Started running my own world once again, and I couldn't be happier with it. That, in itself, has really gotten my creative juices flowing. With the help of my players having equal amounts of fun.
I hope that you also can find that level of enjoyment, if you have not yet had it with this edition, or otherwise.
Edit: Almost forgot... I think the majority of players and DMs are satisfied. This forum is filled with DMs, and a smaller extent players, that want to improve their craft and experience. Taking a vote for I like this, but I do need/want to tweek it, as a dissatisfied, to me is incorrect.
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