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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5924022" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I am not a 4e player, but these are my feelings about why <em>some</em> 4e players may want to switch to 5e... it all depends why they switched to 4e.</p><p></p><p>- 4e was not just a fix to 3e, fixing problems was only part of the design goals, another major purpose was to provide something new and refreshing. Some people really wanted to try D&D with a spin, maybe because they had become a bit bored with 3e, hence they were happy to switch to 4e. But now switching to 5e means another spin, so if this was their main motivation, why not switching again after all?</p><p></p><p>- 4e fixed some problems, but this doesn't mean that people who were happy with the fixes liked everything else of 4e, maybe other problems weren't fixed or new problems were created or some D&D feeling was lost, and 5e promises to be naturally customizable and to actually provide variants directly, making it possible to inherit features from several previous editions so that every group can have <em>all</em> it wants more easily than before</p><p></p><p>- some gamers approach D&D in a more social/public way than others, meaning that they're very much into club/shop gaming, conventions, reading articles etc., all of which are naturally inclined to be based on the <em>current</em> edition, so they'll just switch because playing an older edition doesn't satisfy them at this level</p><p></p><p>- last but not least there is always the newcomers, not strictly 4e gamers but those who would be if they start before 5e, simply because newcomers (unless they are invited to the game and thus a specific edition by an older grognard) cannot pick an edition as favorite before knowing quite a lot about the game, they'll pick the current</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 5924022, member: 1465"] I am not a 4e player, but these are my feelings about why [I]some[/I] 4e players may want to switch to 5e... it all depends why they switched to 4e. - 4e was not just a fix to 3e, fixing problems was only part of the design goals, another major purpose was to provide something new and refreshing. Some people really wanted to try D&D with a spin, maybe because they had become a bit bored with 3e, hence they were happy to switch to 4e. But now switching to 5e means another spin, so if this was their main motivation, why not switching again after all? - 4e fixed some problems, but this doesn't mean that people who were happy with the fixes liked everything else of 4e, maybe other problems weren't fixed or new problems were created or some D&D feeling was lost, and 5e promises to be naturally customizable and to actually provide variants directly, making it possible to inherit features from several previous editions so that every group can have [I]all[/I] it wants more easily than before - some gamers approach D&D in a more social/public way than others, meaning that they're very much into club/shop gaming, conventions, reading articles etc., all of which are naturally inclined to be based on the [I]current[/I] edition, so they'll just switch because playing an older edition doesn't satisfy them at this level - last but not least there is always the newcomers, not strictly 4e gamers but those who would be if they start before 5e, simply because newcomers (unless they are invited to the game and thus a specific edition by an older grognard) cannot pick an edition as favorite before knowing quite a lot about the game, they'll pick the current [/QUOTE]
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