D&D 5E New D&D Survey

[Twiggly the Gnome]

This *might* interest you....

https://noisms-games.squarespace.com/creations/yoon-suin-the-purple-land

Neat! I'm not that big into B/X clones, but this looks like a good source to idea mine from.

 

[robus]

Sorry, not buying this one bit. As a longtime fan I wasn't all too excited about those options, but the new players I talked to thought they sounded from cool to amazing. Since the survey asked all those questions about player's history and how long they've been playing they will have the data though, while we can just speculate at this point.

What makes you think most new players wouldn't be interested in those themes while older players would?

The fact that it kicked off with questions that new players, such as myself, wouldn't be able to answer, "favorite campaign setting", made it feel that it wasn't too interested in my opinion. The feeling wasn't changed as I went through the survey.

 

[happyhermit]

The fact that it kicked off with questions that new players, such as myself, wouldn't be able to answer, "favorite campaign setting", made it feel that it wasn't too interested in my opinion. The feeling wasn't changed as I went through the survey.

The fact that it made no mention of Basic in ANY of it's forms, the "edition" that I and many longtime players like me started with (coupled with the last podcast I listed to, where the hosts apparently had never hear of the Rules Cyclopedia) and my favorite D&D prior to 5e didn't exactly make me feel like a valued part of their fanbase. The fact that I have very, very close to no interest in material for any of those settings because I have always homebrewed (used/bought more published adventure/settings in 5e than the previous decades combined), while new players are saying they are excited about many of them doesn't make me feel like this was tailored to me. The fact that a huge amount of the things offered had very little interest to me (not currently playing any PC games and don't own an even moderately current console, for example) make it pretty clear that most of the survey wasn't aimed at me.

But... I know I am not representative of most longtime players, just like you aren't representative of most new ones.

 

[Xeviat]

Only getting to say what my favorite classes were without getting to qualify if they were my favorite mechanically of thematically was difficult.

My extra comment was on wanting more "material" books that could be applied to homebrew, like "Sandstorm" and "Heroes of Horror". Those old books are still useful, but not as easy to find.


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[robus]

The fact that it made no mention of Basic in ANY of it's forms, the "edition" that I and many longtime players like me started with (coupled with the last podcast I listed to, where the hosts apparently had never hear of the Rules Cyclopedia) and my favorite D&D prior to 5e didn't exactly make me feel like a valued part of their fanbase. The fact that I have very, very close to no interest in material for any of those settings because I have always homebrewed (used/bought more published adventure/settings in 5e than the previous decades combined), while new players are saying they are excited about many of them doesn't make me feel like this was tailored to me. The fact that a huge amount of the things offered had very little interest to me (not currently playing any PC games and don't own an even moderately current console, for example) make it pretty clear that most of the survey wasn't aimed at me.

But... I know I am not representative of most longtime players, just like you aren't representative of most new ones.

Sure, perhaps I projected a bit much. But I do think that WotC are playing things very safe. (Probably have to...) but it doesn't excite me. I'm happy your new players are excited.

 

[happyhermit]

... I'm happy your new players are excited.

I'm not, a lot of new -ish players seem excited about things like Planescape, which I pretty much abhor, Dark Sun got on my nerves too (happyhermit hides now to avoid angry glares) and yet nobody seems to take Spelljammer seriously, not sure why . But most of the actual players I GM for have at most a passing interest in what Wotc is publishing, in part because I am not likely to use it as is anyways. When I said "new players" I was mostly referring to new GMs, but also players I don't run for (AL and the like).

 

[Ancalagon]

The questions had nothing to do with writing or direction. They were just gauging interest.

recent history indicates that audiences will be happy to watch a show about almost anything as long as it's good. We know there is significant interest in fantasy via GoT. I question the value of gauging interest in a tv show.

 

[Ancalagon]

Neat! I'm not that big into B/X clones, but this looks like a good source to idea mine from.

It's so idea-rich that it's effectively system agnostic. The main conversion job is the monsters stats, but the rest is 95% ideas.

 

[robus]

I'm not, a lot of new -ish players seem excited about things like Planescape, which I pretty much abhor, Dark Sun got on my nerves too (happyhermit hides now to avoid angry glares) and yet nobody seems to take Spelljammer seriously, not sure why . But most of the actual players I GM for have at most a passing interest in what Wotc is publishing, in part because I am not likely to use it as is anyways. When I said "new players" I was mostly referring to new GMs, but also players I don't run for (AL and the like).

Spelljammer looks bit ridiculous to me I'm afraid. I'm much more into tightly genre'd (is that a word?) settings.

 

[Emerikol]

I've kind of given up on WOTC as a rules company but I still hope they will produce some supplements I would find useful. The large city, detailed (use Ptolus as an example), is the kind of supplement well done that I'll buy for any game system. Stats have never been that hard for me to do in whatever set of rules I'm using. Really good campaign settings are also that way.

I'm no fan of the Numenera system either but I am intrigued by their setting materials. I feel that settings and to a lesser degree adventures can transcend editions. So that is what I voted up. D&D 5e is the first D&D I never bought and it's not because I think it's the worst. I just stopped buying rules if I wasn't sure I'd use them.