Agamon
Adventurer
I dunno...I may need to make a poll.
"Does complaining about polls matter?"
[X] Yes
[X] No
[X] What a stupid poll!
[X] Chocolate
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D&D 5E Too much bickering about 5e, let's get down to what matters.
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I dunno...I may need to make a poll.
"Does complaining about polls matter?"
[X] Yes
[X] No
[X] What a stupid poll!
[X] Chocolate
I don't see that.
I agree with Umbran and roadtoad, above... and I'm looking forward to trying the new edition out.
hbarsquared
Quantum Chronomancer
I voted, but I mostly just want to commend the OP for having a truly binary poll. Your answer now, at this moment, is either yes or no: votr accordingly. If you don't know: don't vote.
Much like an actual election.
Finally a poll that's actually informative!
Much like an actual election.
Finally a poll that's actually informative!
Sword of Spirit
Legend
Better, no question for me.
My reasoning is that the best edition of the game for me is the one that gives me the experience I want with 1) the least amount of content creation on my part, 2) the least amount of house rules required, and 3) the least wasted money on products I only need part of.
5e is going to include things like random encounter tables, mass battle system, and other world-sim tools which mean I don't have to create the rules myself. That is huge for me, because I otherwise have to do a huge amount of work. It's such a big deal that I'm accepting the loss of dozens (if not hundreds) of hours of work I've already put in over the years trying to organize and create such content for 3e, because 5e should just have it there. It might not be quite as refined as I would have done it, but it will be good enough and already ready already.
5e is going to require house rules, and I doubt the modules in the DMG will cover everything. They know some of the simple ones I want (like a rule to allow you to prepare a cantrip and cast it as a first level spell, because it's absurd that you can learn or know every single spell on your classe's spell list except the simplest ones, of which you have a limited number known). I don't see why we wouldn't get something like that, but I don't know that we will. So, I'm not counting on everything I want being in the game, even if it simple to do: hence house rules. But compared to other editions, my house rules needed will be relatively simple and few--even if they have a big effect on the game.
I think they also understand that people don't want to have to do what we did in 3e and buy a book just to get 2 or 3 traditional monsters that were exiled to that book, while the majority of the book's content is stuff we could just do without. So win for 5e there.
I have pretty particular tastes, and the best edition of D&D for me is the one that lets me create that game with the least hassle. 5e (will be) it.
My reasoning is that the best edition of the game for me is the one that gives me the experience I want with 1) the least amount of content creation on my part, 2) the least amount of house rules required, and 3) the least wasted money on products I only need part of.
5e is going to include things like random encounter tables, mass battle system, and other world-sim tools which mean I don't have to create the rules myself. That is huge for me, because I otherwise have to do a huge amount of work. It's such a big deal that I'm accepting the loss of dozens (if not hundreds) of hours of work I've already put in over the years trying to organize and create such content for 3e, because 5e should just have it there. It might not be quite as refined as I would have done it, but it will be good enough and already ready already.
5e is going to require house rules, and I doubt the modules in the DMG will cover everything. They know some of the simple ones I want (like a rule to allow you to prepare a cantrip and cast it as a first level spell, because it's absurd that you can learn or know every single spell on your classe's spell list except the simplest ones, of which you have a limited number known). I don't see why we wouldn't get something like that, but I don't know that we will. So, I'm not counting on everything I want being in the game, even if it simple to do: hence house rules. But compared to other editions, my house rules needed will be relatively simple and few--even if they have a big effect on the game.
I think they also understand that people don't want to have to do what we did in 3e and buy a book just to get 2 or 3 traditional monsters that were exiled to that book, while the majority of the book's content is stuff we could just do without. So win for 5e there.
I have pretty particular tastes, and the best edition of D&D for me is the one that lets me create that game with the least hassle. 5e (will be) it.
From what I know so far I am pretty confident that I will like it better than every edition except for 4e. I just don't see what any of those editions offer me (besides nostalgia) that 5e would be able to give me.
And if the modules are good enough then it could pass 4e as well.
And if the modules are good enough then it could pass 4e as well.
evileeyore
Mrrrph
I, an embittered old grognard with far better options for his money, will be buying it therefore it must already be far better than any previous edition.
Yes, but that's only a useful question among people who have had a lot of both - full Vanilla and Chocolate experiences.
Once you layer in having to *guess*, because you haven't really tried Chocolate in anything like the depth of Vanilla you've had... then you're testing too many variables at once, and your results are inconclusive. Meaningless.
Grazzt
Demon Lord
My vote as well.
Emerikol
Legend
Purely playstyle - 1e is still king for me.
Purely mechanics - 3e is likely the best.
It would cause me pain to play 4e.
2e is enough like 1e that I lump them together a lot.
So for me 5e is probably better than 4e and worse than the rest when it comes to playstyle. Mechanically it's probably better than most due to streamlining and d20.
Purely mechanics - 3e is likely the best.
It would cause me pain to play 4e.
2e is enough like 1e that I lump them together a lot.
So for me 5e is probably better than 4e and worse than the rest when it comes to playstyle. Mechanically it's probably better than most due to streamlining and d20.
