would you play your least fav edition if asked by friends

[Morrus]

Tell us what you really feel!

I agree though. There's a gray area where a decent group of people can have fun even if the system isn't great, but there's also a breaking point at which the game gets in the way.

Nah. You're still joking and eating pizza with your friends. The game is incidental.

 

[Umbran]

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?

Problem: I don't dislike any edition of D&D. Playing the one I like the least is playing a game I still like, so this is kind of a no-brainer: Yes, I'd play.

 

[Balesir]

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?

Sure - there is no version of D&D that I couldn't/wouldn't enjoy for one day if a friend of mine was running it.

 

[Serendipity]

It depends on which friends these were - and (very much) who the GM was. Some people can make a crap system just sing, or are just good enough GMs that their awesomeness outshines a hated system (I'm lucky, I've gamed with some REALLY good GMs over the years and have had the honor of calling many of them friends). Aside from that, there are of course some friends that I'll go to an insurance seminar with, so yeah, I'll play whatever with them.
And some, I just won't. I note, for the record, that the ones I will game with regardless do tend to be people that aren't 'gamers' per se, so much as 'people who game.' Not making anything out of this, it's just an observation made whilest thinking about it.

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

Sure! I don't like 4E and have played it a lot with friends. There are various D&D incarnations that I won't DM, but I still need to find one I won't play. Like others said, it's about the people and the shared experience, not about the rules system.

Cheers,

 

[dd.stevenson]

Play for a one shot, yes.

DM, no.

Play in a long-term campaign, no.

 

[DaveMage]

No. But then, I wouldn't play any RPG I didn't like - even to celebrate an anniversary of the game.

Instead, I'd suggest we play Talisman.

 

[Jester David]

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

This is kinda true, but to me it still has more to do with the people.
I've been in some games I hated because I wasn't on the same wavelength as the GM even though I loved the system. And other games I loved because the GM was solid and the player dynamics were good even though the system was ass.

 

[Umbran]

... but there's also a breaking point at which the game gets in the way.

That breaking point is really far down the road, for me. To be honest, so many folks seem so darned picky I find it hard to understand. I accept it as a fact, and your opinion, but really understanding it is difficult sometimes.

There are cases where I'll bow out due to setting or game style. For example, I generally won't play the WoD Vampire games. I'll play anything else in the oWoD or nWoD, so it isn't the mechanical system, but I'll generally pass on Vampire. But that's 'cause I have a simple issue of being unable to think of vampires in general as protagonists. You can have an occasional singleton who is, based on his particular attitude, but an entire game of the? Sorry, doesn't work for me. I can't buy into the fiction there.

 

[Ahnehnois]

That breaking point is really far down the road, for me. To be honest, so many folks seem so darned picky I find it hard to understand. I accept it as a fact, and your opinion, but really understanding it is difficult sometimes.

Perhaps it's because I'm considering a broader context that includes my own circumstances. I live right near so many interesting things and people that I have an excess of choices of how to spend my free time. I also work as a contractor and set my own hours, so if there's nothing worth doing I can and probably should make some money, or be doing something productive towards moving my career forward. I like rpging enough to belong to message boards about it, but for me to want to devote a large part of a day to playing a game, it needs to be satisfying on a lot of levels, not just an excuse to spend time with people.

If someone asked me to play a game of 4e, I'd probably suggest playing something else, or watching some TV or movie of mutual interest, but then if that failed, I'd just walk to the National Mall or drive to some estuarine beach or go hiking at Great Falls, with or without them. Then again, I don't have any friends that would ask me that.

What puzzles me is how people with families and other obligations aren't as discriminating.