D&D (2024) Why are you still playing D&D?

[DragonLancer]

Preference and Other... meaning nostalgia. I would have voted Familiarity too but I could only vote for two.

Nostalgia is my main one. When I first read about D&D at the age of 9 (about 1982) I was fascinated and hooked on the idea. In my mid teens I actually got to play and DM, and that was it, I was hooked. There is something about the system, the iconic monsters, the treasures, dungeons... etc, that just calls to me even now.

 

[The Soloist]

If I were to dust off the old dice, Dragonbane might be the game I played (or maybe Shadowdark).

I'm a skills guy. I can't play Shadowdark.

 

[GrimCo]

Familiarity and convenience and it gets the job done for type of games we like to play. For half the group, it's their favourite system, for other, second favourite. When we toss ideas for new games, when it comes to choosing which system, it boils down to either 5e or Chronicles of Darkness ( i still call it nWoD).

 

[soviet]

I think the totemic notion of D&D is a different thing to whatever the current edition's rules may be at the time. The notion of D&D - its tropes, its imagery, its language - has an undeniable magic of its own, and this is what people new and old are attracted to. The details of the game design are largely incidental. In fact, I think to a certain extent 4e sacrificed some elements of 'looking like D&D' with the intention of making a better game experience, and suffered in the marketplace because of it. Most people (my group included) just play whatever the edition currently in print is.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm a skills guy. I can't play Shadowdark.

I think there are OSR plug-in modules that just add skill systems to games without them. I can't vouch for any of them, though, as we don't use them at my table.

 

[sevenbastard]

I would rather run my homebrew, but trying to get players to use roll20 without a fancy prebuilt character sheet is too much to ask.

 

[Charlaquin]

Your poll only allows 2 options, but 3 of them are relevant to my answer, and also I’d like the 7-layer burrito back (though not half as much as I want the volcano menu back).

 

[pukunui]

Your poll only allows 2 options, but 3 of them are relevant to my answer, and also I’d like the 7-layer burrito back (though not half as much as I want the volcano menu back).

Thanks for pointing that out! I didn't realize it allowed for multiple options. I've now ticked "Familiarity" as well as "Other".

 

[Stormonu]

Been playing some form of D&D for 45 years now, it's too much a part of my life not to have it around.

It is nice though, every so often to play something else for a bit. Same 'ol, same 'ol gets stale after a while - but it's nice to come back to it when you've had your fill of some other thing as well.

 

[Gorg]

Because I never got to play 5e very much- so I'm NOT sick of it. Nor am I jaded about it.

For that matter, I feel the same about 3/3.5e. The group split up as we all headed for the hills, and the dreaded adulting thing... (which is why I'm currently RUNNING a 3.5 game!)

Castles and Crusades is next on the list to play. Perhaps a one shot of Dragon Bane or two.

As an official old as dirt old school D&D grognard, It's always been D&D- I/we just love the swords n sorcery thang- complete with the warts and unsightly hairs. People have been howling about this or that for as long as Dragon mag had a letters column... Never had any real issues- that's what DM's are for.

Back in the day, I was always intrigued by Tunnels and Trolls, but NOBODY carried it around me... Never did get a look at it, much less play.