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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5986552" data-attributes="member: 42582">If D&Dnext delivers a game I want to play, I might play it. If it doesn't, then I probably won't play it.It doesn't particularly bother me what sort of D&D it leads to others playing. I play in a fairly tight group of friends, and I don't see that changing for the forseeable future. Also, I have doubts that a new edition can change how people play the game: at most, it can cause those who want to play in a manner that it doesn't support to have a grim time if they insist on persisting with it.I don't have to sacrifice anything for the game to appeal to others - if it doesn't appeal to me I won't play it, but that's no sacrifice. There are other games I can happily play - once my 4e game finishes I want to GM Burning Wheel if my group agrees, and I could envisage running a 4e DarkSun game too.As for the "schism" - I think that it is natural that there will be different ways of playing RPGs. The level of hostility associated with dislike of 4e will probably go away in any even, because it seems pretty likely that the default of D&Dnext will be more oriented towards at least a veneer of process-simulation in support of semi-Gygaxia gamism. So those who hated 4e will probably like it.If this means I don't like it, I certainly don't plan to spend my time on messageboards explaining why it's not really an RPG but a tactical skirmish game/board game/video game/whatever other form of pejorative game!</blockquote>

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