D&D (2024) You're not planning on getting 2024 D&D? Why is that?

[TiQuinn]

If this 2024 edition isn't the success they want, maybe it will motivate them to create an official 6th edition that embraces some actual conceptual changes.

Actual conceptual changes can also backfire as it did with 4e.

 

[SkidAce]

45% of the results aren't related to the actual game. Huh.

"Concerns about practices of Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro"

 

[mamba]

45% of the results aren't related to the actual game. Huh.

"Concerns about practices of Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro"

multiple votes are allowed, but yes, for almost half of the participants WotC’s behavior is one of the reasons

 

[Micah Sweet]

Actual conceptual changes can also backfire as it did with 4e.

Still worth a try to make a game that does what they want (creatively speaking; I don't really care about WotC's financial goals).

 

[JDR]

How many voted for only "problems with Hasbro/WotC" though? I think with most people it's multiple issues

 

[Micah Sweet]

45% of the results aren't related to the actual game. Huh.

"Concerns about practices of Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro"

You reap what you sow, I suppose. I'm sure they'll still make a reasonable profit, at least. Plenty of people care more about playing official D&D, whatever WotC decides that is, than they do about WotC's track record and the optics thereof.

 

[Quickleaf]

I've been playing a 2024 playtest fighter (battle master) in my weekly game for months now, and updated it recently as best as I could from what I know about the final form of the 2024 fighter.

I have to say, between the weapon properties, combat maneuver, and new uses for Second Wind? It is more complicated than I care for, like it's moved a step or two closer to a 4E fighter or a Pathfinder fighter. I'm not saying those fighters are bad things, but I have ADHD and I do not need a lot of options every turn. And I feel like a lot of what is accomplished by weapon properties and maneuvers could be accomplished with something like the superiority dice (why aren't they just called "manuever dice" or "battle master dice"?), where there's just a list of things you can do with 1 or more dice (add damage, force a save, give advantage to your next attack, to someone else's attack, etc.) without having a list of maneuvers or a list of weapon properties.

Of course, at the same time I kind of want a system where certain weapons are better vs certain kinds of armor, so maybe I just don't know what I want!

Anyway, this kind of experience is making it less likely that I will want to invest in the 2024 D&D stuff.

I think your example is really interesting - You’re describing an accessibility issue!

 

[Bunch]

Combination of reasons.
#1 WotCs business practices have been creepy lately so while I will purchase stuff if I think I'll use it, I am much more selective and slow to do so.
#2 Not clear how backwards compatible it will be in play.
#3 I have a fair amount of money sunk in VTT costs associated with 5e.
#4 No pre order discount. Zero. So I have this big pile of books, VTT assets and knowledge and you want me to immediately just to the new edition. Kinda gotta lure me with an incentive. My old stuff works fine. This stuff ain't cheap.

I'll wait. Right now I'll just pick up people's 5e cast offs and used books stores/thrift stores while I see how this new thing goes

 

[Claug]

I just stopped liking the system. The "rulings instead of rules" approach doesn't work for me. It's like it's trying to be a simple system, but it's actually crunchy, so it's in a weird place where there are a ton of rules, but many of them fall short and rely way too much in the DM making something up on the spot.

If you want your rules to be light, just go the whole way to a rules-light system. If you want them to be crunchy, give us actual rules. This halfway thing they have going doesn't work for my GMing style at all.

The 5.5 edition doesn't fix any of this, so I just jumped to other systems that are way better for me.

 

[GrimCo]

I'm happy with 5e as is. Game i play is already heavily modified with house rules. We, as a group, didn't use any play test materials, nor did any of us read it. We might buy PHB, see what's changed and incorporate things we like into our current game, but full on switch, no.