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<blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 5922192" data-attributes="member: 27160"><p>I'm not looking to move away from 4e - but I might be interested to move towards 5e.</p><p></p><p>I love 4e - it is the edition that executes best (though by no means perfectly) the promise that has been in D&D since OD&D, to my mind. But as to "real D&D"? I don't really give a fig about all the messy, kludged, nonsensical and problematic but atmospheric and nostalgic elements many seem to love. And that includes the name "D&D". I would be deliriously happy if WotC continued/sold/republished 4e under some other name, to be honest - "DragonQuest", maybe, since they own the trademark etc.</p><p></p><p>The issues I have with 5e are (1) it means 4e support will almost certainly cease - possibly even to the extent of pulling the electronic support (which is what they did with all previous editions - one area I really have 100% sympathy with those who prefer 3.X edition), and (2) this likely means that the advances, ideas, philosophies and approaches that made 4e such a superlative system for me will die on the vine. All of that potential will be, well, not so much "lost" as "locked in a drawer and allowed to fester and die". I have heard some express delight that 4e should die; wishing for an alternative I can completely understand, but wishing for someone else's preferred system to die strikes me as just needlessly nihilistic and mean.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Balesir, post: 5922192, member: 27160"] I'm not looking to move away from 4e - but I might be interested to move towards 5e. I love 4e - it is the edition that executes best (though by no means perfectly) the promise that has been in D&D since OD&D, to my mind. But as to "real D&D"? I don't really give a fig about all the messy, kludged, nonsensical and problematic but atmospheric and nostalgic elements many seem to love. And that includes the name "D&D". I would be deliriously happy if WotC continued/sold/republished 4e under some other name, to be honest - "DragonQuest", maybe, since they own the trademark etc. The issues I have with 5e are (1) it means 4e support will almost certainly cease - possibly even to the extent of pulling the electronic support (which is what they did with all previous editions - one area I really have 100% sympathy with those who prefer 3.X edition), and (2) this likely means that the advances, ideas, philosophies and approaches that made 4e such a superlative system for me will die on the vine. All of that potential will be, well, not so much "lost" as "locked in a drawer and allowed to fester and die". I have heard some express delight that 4e should die; wishing for an alternative I can completely understand, but wishing for someone else's preferred system to die strikes me as just needlessly nihilistic and mean. [/QUOTE]
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