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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pickles JG" data-source="post: 5982644" data-attributes="member: 61501">Noone seems to be willing to acknowledge that "unite the fanbase" means squish Pathfinder, 4e et al so that everyone is playing D&D next. Anyway.... It has to appeal to me & some others or I will not get to play it. So I guess it has to appeal to me as much as possible while delivering a thriving play group.If the game does not appeal to me then I don't really care what anyone else thinks. In some ways if I do not like it I would like it to tank so that people have to play the games I like. I am a broad spectrum gamer that plays CCGs, Miniatures games, boardgames (euros, wargames & ameritrash) as well as RPGs including D&D. My fanbase is never going to be united, if people play Pathfinder but not 4e that's the same to me as them playing Warmachine but not Agricola.  I am a fussy gamer too. I rarely play things I do not like (without complaining) & find play groups of the games I do like rather than trying to play everything with the same bunch of friends. I do still get into games with a view to playing them with particular friends though & (try to) stand shy of ones I do not see me getting to play at all, I am not much of a collector.  So if 5e is a game I like I will want it to be popular so that it is easier to get a game of it. If I do not like it then I do not much care. I am a bit of a neo-phile so if the game feels shiny & new it will get some love from me that I might not give to an older game so I can compromise on my "core" likes if the game feels new. This is one reason I am so disappointed with Pathfinder. It is just 3.5 with nothing I found problematic or irritating addressed & with massive amounts of new chaff. (That's my impression which I know is a bit unfair; it's not an attack on the players of the game after all I loved playing 3.0/3.5 for the best part of a decade.) 5e seems to be hovering on whether it is going the same way or not, though starting with a more 1e base. If everything feels rehashed I will not be excited about it but if there is a solid core of interesting new stuff it will get my interest, even if it is not exactly to my taste, which FWIW you can take as being, to a very good approximation, "like what 4e is".</blockquote>

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