D&D (2024) Is the 5E player base going to split?

[payn]

It isn't your only option. We are lucky than these days we can communicate with those making the game and let them know how we feel. Individually it isn't much but collectively it is something.

Sure, I fill out surveys and do playtests. My experience in that says I have very little chance of effecting anything. Though, I voice my opinion and move on when its not popular. It's all I can do. WOTC doesnt owe me anything.

 

[Reynard]

I am. 5E is an ok base, but Id like to see it expanded. If you still play your favorite why does a new edition effect you?

It doesn't, but I'm not worried about it either because I already got everything I want out of 5e. I am moderately interested in what they do but it doesn't appear they are evolving the game in a direction that is going to make it more appealing to me, but them's the breaks.

My interest in whether 5.5 or whatever it's called splits the player base is more academic.

 

[payn]

My interest in whether 5.5 or whatever it's called splits the player base is more academic.

Right. I'm just one guy who thinks it will be entirely unnoticeable (outside EN world anyways). Perhaps dismissive, but its a simple opinion.

 

[Reynard]

Right. I'm just one guy who thinks it will be entirely unnoticeable (outside EN world anyways). Perhaps dismissive, but its a simple opinion.

I don't that opinion was the part folks felt was dismissive, but rather the idea that people will just fall into line could be construed as dismissive. But I don't think your intent was to be hurtful or anything.

 

[James Gasik]

That sentiment about "moving on" is so strange and such a RPG specific attitude. I wonder why people think it's time to move on for a given iteration of D&D when clearly many people still play previous versions. Who is asking for a new edition?

Hasbro.

 

[payn]

I don't that opinion was the part folks felt was dismissive, but rather the idea that people will just fall into line could be construed as dismissive. But I don't think your intent was to be hurtful or anything.

Yeap. One thing I'm not dismissive of is the feeling. I have gone through a game drifting away from tastes several times now. It is not enjoyable. There was a time I had an outsized value of my opinion, but now I understand better how things work. I can only do so much about it.

 

[billd91]

I am. 5E is an ok base, but Id like to see it expanded. If you still play your favorite why does a new edition effect you?

Why does a new edition affect people who aren't going to continue with it? It means that the edition they prefer gets less and less support and is harder to find players for. Same as always. That's why lots of people who are content with the current edition tend to be wary of new editions with significant changes.
Changes that are less significant or more evolutionary tend to allow a lot more compatibility and so are easier to absorb or adapt. That's one reason I'm not too worried about any new changes coming along. If I don't like them, I'll adapt (treating some of these non-spell magical attacks as spells being a potential house rule). Though I may have to rethink my AL DMing at Gamehole Con if I don't keep up with the changes and that'll be kind of sad since they need the DMs badly.

 

[payn]

Why does a new edition affect people who aren't going to continue with it? It means that the edition they prefer gets less and less support and is harder to find players for. Same as always. That's why lots of people who are content with the current edition tend to be wary of new editions with significant changes.
Changes that are less significant or more evolutionary tend to allow a lot more compatibility and so are easier to absorb or adapt. That's one reason I'm not too worried about any new changes coming along. If I don't like them, I'll adapt (treating some of these non-spell magical attacks as spells being a potential house rule). Though I may have to rethink my AL DMing at Gamehole Con if I don't keep up with the changes and that'll be kind of sad since they need the DMs badly.

Its a good point and why these updates/changes to editions are so contentious. The alternative choices are slim at best. I'll do something I am loathe to do and quote Don Henley. "You can check out anytime you like; but you may never leave"

 

[James Gasik]

If a new edition is made and it is significantly less compatible than the old one, that's when you get problems. If the company has stopped making product for it, you're left either hoping a 3rd party company makes stuff for it, or have to homebrew or figure out how to adapt content from here on out. You in effect, have a dead game.

Whatever changes happen to 5e are not going to be so severe. We're talking 1e/2e or 3.0/3.5 at worst.

 

[Yora]

The company has a dead game.

The thing with RPGs is, they are not content. They are tools.