would you play your least fav edition if asked by friends

[Lindeloef]

If it's my usual Monday group. Yes of course .

Other friends? For a one shot? Yeah...
A campaign? I don't know. Haven't played RPGs with my other friends, so I don't know how the group dynamic at roleplaying would be with them.

(and ofc I would play a wizard or a druid...)

 

[Neonchameleon]

Yes. Unless by "Least favourite edition" you mean either "FATAL" or "All characters must come from the Book of Vile Darkness/Book of Erotic Fantasy" - and even then it depends on the friends.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

"All characters must come from the Book of Vile Darkness/Book of Erotic Fantasy"

ok... so here is my new pitch, 3.5 D&D game the only books allowed are PHB1, Book of vile darkness and book of erotic fantasy...

my god that would either be the game that never starts or THE MOST FUNNY CAMPAIGN EVER!!!!

 

[Desdichado]

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.

Sure, absolutely. Especially for a one-shot. I'd play just about anything in a one-shot.

 

[Ahnehnois]

because we are so broken that it isn't even 'hanging out with friends' anymore.

It never was. It's a hobby. The creative process and the product you create are part of the experience, not just the social aspect. Pretty much any hobbyist is very discriminating when it comes to their hobby.

 

[Morrus]

The truth is, I have plenty of opportunities to play all sorts of games with my friends - from D&D, to Star Wars, to MechWarrior, to Vampire, to Pathfinder, to Call of Cthulhu, and to Torg. And I don't participate in all of these opportunities. I don't need to. None of us participate in all of them. We don't need to. We're content to pick and choose the ones we want to participate in and we are content when our friends do the same.

You may be unusual in your abundance of choice. Many of us find it hard to get enough people together regularly to play anything.

 

[billd91]

You may be unusual in your abundance of choice. Many of us find it hard to get enough people together regularly to play anything.

The area I live in is pretty well-populated with gamers of all sorts. I could go to PFS sessions a couple of nights a week, recruit players at work, hang out with a couple of distinct groups of friends who game and who have varied gaming tastes. I really do have a lot of options open to me. The proximity to Lake Geneva and many years of Gen Cons and a game store that has been in operation for over 30 years probably has something to do with it. The hobby is pretty well-established in southern Wisconsin.

 

[Warbringer]

Absolutely, but I'm not sure i hate any editions of D&D, I just have preferences.

 

[Umbran]

Folks,

Don't make it personal. Really, just don't, please.

 

[Lwaxy]

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?

No. Not a chance in the netherworlds is how much I despise that edition - and I would have to relearn a lot of the rules anyhow so no point.