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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7716099" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>[MENTION=37579]Jester David[/MENTION] I think I need to clarify, because I clearly didn't communicate well. I mean, you also ignored the actual meat of the post to quibble over an aside, which I've little respect for, so there's that. </p><p></p><p>Still, clarification. I won't get into a breakdown of the value of twitter polls, so I'll just be dealing with the second part you quoted. </p><p>The numbers would change, for a few reasons.</p><p>1, because people who play in the published APs and then branch off from there are <em>all playing in FR.</em> </p><p></p><p>2, there are no adventures or books out for 5e in other settings, which means only older edition fans <em>have been exposed to those settings!</em></p><p></p><p>3, a LOT of people <em>don't want to create a bunch of homebrew to play the game.</em> IME, most DMs would rather wait to use an option than make their own version of it, unless it's a really simple thing. Houserules at some thing, homebrew is another. </p><p></p><p></p><p>It is genuinely ridiculous to think that the setting in which every 5e book is based wouldn't automatically be noticably more commonly played than settings which have, at most, sidebars explaining how elves act in that setting. </p><p></p><p>The idea that older ed DMs are the ones that would want to run games in older editions misses all of the points, completely. How can we even know that, if other settings haven't been supported in 5e? I've met new players that didn't even know there were whole other settings. They thought the worlds mentioned in the books were just flavorful examples of how to use options in your own home made world! Others have no clue how to even get ahold of stuff from older editions, much less even begin to try and convert stuff! </p><p></p><p>I've shared my own homebrew stuff with a half dozen or so DMs I know via game store and online so they could run Eberron, after reading the Eberron UA, and googling it. All but two of them were going to just keep playing in FR until/unless wotc put our stuff for Eberron, one was considering just banning anything that couldnt be relfavored versions of existing stuff, and one was willing to homebrew, but had never done so before, and didnt want to break her game with unbalanced races and feats and items (and was stoked to not have to do all that work, because what I gave her represents at least a full work week worth of work). </p><p></p><p>The idea that a "who is playing what?" Poll will tell us what people care about, when only 1 options has official material for it, is just silly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7716099, member: 6704184"] [MENTION=37579]Jester David[/MENTION] I think I need to clarify, because I clearly didn't communicate well. I mean, you also ignored the actual meat of the post to quibble over an aside, which I've little respect for, so there's that. Still, clarification. I won't get into a breakdown of the value of twitter polls, so I'll just be dealing with the second part you quoted. The numbers would change, for a few reasons. 1, because people who play in the published APs and then branch off from there are [I]all playing in FR.[/I] 2, there are no adventures or books out for 5e in other settings, which means only older edition fans [I]have been exposed to those settings![/I] 3, a LOT of people [I]don't want to create a bunch of homebrew to play the game.[/I] IME, most DMs would rather wait to use an option than make their own version of it, unless it's a really simple thing. Houserules at some thing, homebrew is another. It is genuinely ridiculous to think that the setting in which every 5e book is based wouldn't automatically be noticably more commonly played than settings which have, at most, sidebars explaining how elves act in that setting. The idea that older ed DMs are the ones that would want to run games in older editions misses all of the points, completely. How can we even know that, if other settings haven't been supported in 5e? I've met new players that didn't even know there were whole other settings. They thought the worlds mentioned in the books were just flavorful examples of how to use options in your own home made world! Others have no clue how to even get ahold of stuff from older editions, much less even begin to try and convert stuff! I've shared my own homebrew stuff with a half dozen or so DMs I know via game store and online so they could run Eberron, after reading the Eberron UA, and googling it. All but two of them were going to just keep playing in FR until/unless wotc put our stuff for Eberron, one was considering just banning anything that couldnt be relfavored versions of existing stuff, and one was willing to homebrew, but had never done so before, and didnt want to break her game with unbalanced races and feats and items (and was stoked to not have to do all that work, because what I gave her represents at least a full work week worth of work). The idea that a "who is playing what?" Poll will tell us what people care about, when only 1 options has official material for it, is just silly. [/QUOTE]
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