would you play your least fav edition if asked by friends

[Ratskinner]

I would, and in fact have done, almost exactly as the OP describes. All editions of D&D are better than not playing!

 

[doghead]

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?

Yes. I have editions and games I prefer, but I can't think of anything I dislike sufficiently to pass up on the opportunity to get together with some friends and do some gaming.

thotd

 

[jasper]

Yes as long as their bad habits did come along. Bad habits showing up late, no show, etc.

 

[Greg K]

because we are so broken that it isn't even 'hanging out with friends' anymore. Some of us have become so entrenched we would rather do nothing then play the game, if it isn't the exact version of the game we want.

Maybe, you need a wider circle of friends and/or a wider range of interests. Not hanging out to play a game, does not equate to me doing nothing. Not all of my friends are gamers. Rather than play a version that I don't like, I can spend time with non-gaming friends or family members.

Should worse come to worse and family members and all of my non-gamer friends be busy, I can catch a movie that others might not want to see, draw/write, check out a bachata class, prep for the game that I run (as I am the primary GM), or, actually, prepare lesson plans or write/develop tutorials for work (the latter being extra money).

Do nothing? No. Use my time more productively? Yes whether it is spending time with non-gamers in my life, taking "me time" for my own non-gaming interests, prepping for the regular game, or getting work done.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Even if the question were "would you play your favorite edition if asked by friends", the answer is not exactly an automatic yes.

 

[saskganesh]

No problems with not playing in a game for whatever reason. My friends are cool, and don't look it as a friendship test.

 

[Greg K]

No problems with not playing in a game for whatever reason. My friends are cool, and don't look it as a friendship test.

Exactly. I started to write something similar in my own post above. I don't even game with my best friend, whom is like a brother, despite him being a gamer. His style clashes, heavily, with the rest of the group including myself. Rather than ruin the friendships, we just hang out with him at other times.

 

[Agamon]

Well, I'm currently playing Pathfinder (with the promise that we move on to something else when the campaign is over), so yes, I would.

Now if I was asked to run it? Nope. As a GM, I need to be motivated to run a game, which is pretty tough when I don't like it.

 

[seregil]

Well, for me the answer is both yes and no.

We, as a group, came late to 4e because we wanted to finish our 3.5 campaigns. I run one game and my friend runs the other, all for the same group of friends. We generally alternate weekends.

So, about a year after 4E comes out, we finally started playing two new campaigns in 4E. I hated it. 4e doesn't just break the 4th wall, it disintegrates it. An entire edition of Dnd centering around meta-gaming with fluff added as an afterthought. Ugg!

I couldn't take it. I ended my campaign after a year and picked up Pathfinder. Ahhh! It felt like coming home. Not just to me, to everyone at the table.

Now, the other campaign is still running. We hate the game system but the campaign is good and the DM has decided to soldier on because he has a story to tell. So we play and have fun but I try to ignore the rules as much as possible because they make me grind my teeth.

In my group, since the DM does most of the work, it's usually his call, within reason.

In this case, we collectively accept to play 4E out of respect for him and because he's a good DM that makes putting up with even 4E worth it.

YMMV.

edit:spelling.

 

[SteveC]

This is going to have to be one of those "it depends" responses that I seem to have to make, so I should at least try and make it useful.

So, it depends...

What's the game about? Is it going to be interesting stories, great characters, mysteries to unravel? If the game is like that, I don't care what version of D&D it is, heck, if you adopt Candyland as an RPG, I'll show up.

On the other hand, if it's yet another game that explores the standard tropes of dungeon crawling, leveling, repeating, then definitely not. I am a pretty open 4E fan, and one reason for that is that combat is a fun thing in and of itself. Monsters do different things, combat can be a sort of puzzle to solve on it's own. If you run a mediocre game where the combat encounters are a lot of fun, then I'm there.

At this point in my life, if I have to hear "bandits are attacking travelling caravans and you've enlisted as a guard," I'm going to pass, simply because I've done that dozens of times already. I'll show up for movie night, though...

For me it's about getting older: I have priorities that are just as important as gaming and many that are moreso, and as a result there's an opportunity cost associated with gaming that makes not doing it better than not enjoying it.