D&D 5E 5th edition should most resemble?

[scruffygrognard]

Please ignore and post to the "poll" version of this thread. Thanks for your patience.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

4

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

2, 4, 6, and 7.

I think you can pull off the combination through careful rules application, because you can achieve the feel of OD&D/BECMI and AD&D within a 3.X-like d20 framework through simpler fixed progression character options and by not selecting a host of optional modular rules.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Oh, if it is a multiple selection poll, I vote:

4 and 8.
Although I don´t really understand what you mean with 4e including essentials and OTHER GAMES...

4e and essentials are identical...

 

[WheresMyD20]

Of the options you presented, I think it will be most like 6.

More specifically, I think that the core rules of 5e will be the small set of rules from every edition 0e-4e which overlap, but interpreted through a unified d20 mechanic.

 

[nedjer]

9] Lego

 

[Greg K]

7. With elements drawn from 3e Unearthed Arcana, some 3rd party supplements, 2e (e.g., Specialty Priests), 4e, and True20.

 

[Bobbum Man]

I'd like to see something that is an amalgam of 4th and BECMI.

Here's what I DON'T want to see:

• Spell resistance
• Damage reduction
• Level drain
• Ability score damage
• Flat-footed/Touch AC
• 3.x style multi-classing
• Wealth By Level
• Challenge Ratings
• Effective Character Level
• Level Adjustment
• Stat boosting items
• NPC/PC transparency
• Save or die
• HP bloat
• THAC0
• Disparate resolution mechanics
• % miss chances

I think that it's entirely possible that D&DN will have a completely new base system from anything we've seen before. It would almost have to. I just hope that we don't see a return of the schizophrenic subsystems of AD&D, the bookkeeping nightmares of 3rd edition, or the plodding, metagame-y nature of 4th edition.

 

[nedjer]

I'd like to see something that is an amalgam of 4th and BECMI.

Here's what I DON'T want to see:

• Spell resistance
• Damage reduction
• Level drain
• Ability score damage
• Flat-footed/Touch AC
• 3.x style multi-classing
• Wealth By Level
• Challenge Ratings
• Effective Character Level
• Level Adjustment
• Stat boosting items
• NPC/PC transparency
• Save or die
• HP bloat
• THAC0
• Disparate resolution mechanics
• % miss chances

I think that it's entirely possible that D&DN will have a completely new base system from anything we've seen before. It would almost have to. I just hope that we don't see a return of the schizophrenic subsystems of AD&D, the bookkeeping nightmares of 3rd edition, or the plodding, metagame-y nature of 4th edition.

No level drains? Not even an ability points off drain option? How am I meant to make players scared of the undead?

 

[Minigiant]

9) Cops and Robbers ("I hit you." "Nuh uh." Yes, I did. "Nuh uh. My force field protects me." "Cops don't have shield spell" "I'm a magic cop.")
10) All of the above