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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 6319284" data-attributes="member: 40398">I think this is a good question.For my part, while I like to think that my perception of 5e isn't entirely petty, it's also true that I'm approaching 5e differently than I've approached any prior edition. I bought my first three editions essentially sight unseen -- even after I had been an avid forumite for a couple of years, I bought 4e without having paid much attention at all to the dev articles and gossip.Now that I've been playing the game for twenty years, and have played three distinct editions of it, I like to think that I've developed some sense of what I like and don't like in D&D. This, combined with the fact that my wallet is still recovering from the Recession, has put me in a different frame of mind this time 'round: Rather than buying the next edition just because it's the new D&D, I'm setting two bars. If 5e had cleared either one, I'd be excited and ready to buy! The bars may be partially or entirely petty, but I don't think it's unreasonable for any given gamer to pass up yet another minor variation of a game they've been playing for this long. Some fans seem to feel an almost patriotic duty, or a compulsive collector's desire, to buy every edition of the game. But I feel no such obligation, and as Giltonio_Santos points out, 4e already plays (mostly) the way I want D&D to play. In other words, 5e's battle for my buck was uphill from the start. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />Besides, there are a zillion ttrpgs that I've never played, so if I were to spend money on new rulebooks, I think that one of those would be a better use of my money. If nothing else, an entirely new game would be novel to play once or twice! This might be a kind of grognardism creeping up on me -- although I prefer to think of it as personal taste <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> -- but then again, I'm not discounting 6e+. I have a strong suspicion that the D&D pendulum will someday swing back toward experimentation and the design philosophies I value. Until then, one gamer’s support isn’t going to make or break D&D!</blockquote>

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