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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 6858212" data-attributes="member: 18182">While I have a curious interest in other systems, games, and editions, I have limited time and money to invest in gaming. When I run games, I run D&D 5E, and that's pretty much it. Because that's what I want to do, because I love D&D and 5E is my favorite edition. Because I don't feel like taking additional time/money out of my life to invest in another system, even realizing that there are a LOT of really cool games out there. This doesn't make me some sort of close-minded GM whom players should avoid. Of course, if I'm running D&D 5E and one of my friends isn't really interested in playing this game/edition at the moment, then they should most certainly not participate. It's all good. But I hope they wouldn't sit at home not playing at all because I'm too "narrow" in my gamemastering.As a player, if I have a choice of options, I'm going to go play D&D 5E for the same reason I like to GM it. But, I'm not against playing an earlier edition or a different game altogether, as long as the group I'd be joining doesn't expect me to run out and purchase one or more expensive books. Maybe an inexpensive core book or "player's guide".I do enjoy, when I can afford it, to purchase "near-D&D" books like 13th Age, and incorporating new ideas into my D&D 5E campaign, both for story, setting, and mechanics (house rules). I also like going through my D&D collection of older edition titles for the same reason. But it's almost always through the lens of, "How can I use this in my 5E game?" That, and the pleasure of reading game books just for the sake of it.Some groups are "all D&D, all 5E, all the time" and that's cool. Or substitute a different edition, or a different game (like Pathfinder), that's cool too. Other groups enjoy "changing things up" and playing lots of different rpgs and even editions of the same rpg, and that's cool too. (Not picking on Aaron the Barbarian here) I feel like there's an undercurrent of judgement going on in this thread, perhaps because I'm a bit tired or maybe it's really there. The only thing I get tired of in gaming is "drama". Play what you want, when you want, balance your life how you want . . . but don't get cranky when others needs/wants don't align with yours. GM's should choose their own games and styles without any sense of guilt, and players' should feel free to say, "You bet!" or "No thanks!" without worrying about offending anyone.Perhaps I'm oversensitive to these sorts of conversations as I've experienced that sort of unnecessary drama in the past. I don't put up with it in my old age! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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