Are people underestimating the desire to "come home"?

[nnms]

I was a pretty ardent defender of 4E online until I finally hit my own wall with it and all the glaring stuff I had been defending just added up.

And I have the exact same feeling about 3.x I played that for a couple years until the glaring stuff added up and I was done.

Now I'm discovering that there might have been something to how I was able to enjoy pre-3.x D&D play for years and years without having that same experience. I've given tons of games over the years a try and find I can still go back to BECMI, AD&D or B/X and have a blast with no jarring issues keeping me from liking it. I can also play Microlite20 for hours and miles without any issues.

I was just thinking I hope 5E gives me 3-4 years of good gaming before I finally get sick of it just like 3.x and 4E did, but now I think my standards should be higher.

I want to come home to a D&D that doesn't end up prodding me with glaring things I don't like until I finally get sick of it and quit.

Given that the majority of D&D players are 3.x and 4E players, I'm thinking that either way I'm probably going to be still be left playing Labyrinth Lord or OSRIC or C&C or something for my D&D experience. We could still end up with D&D Next being some sort of 3.x/4E hybrid.

Do I want to come home? Hell yes. Will I stick around if I find "home" is still the place that I had good reason to leave in the first place? Probably not.

 

[enrious]

Which is insane.

It's like saying our ice cream tastes like Chocolate and Vanilla. And if you really love Strawberry, it apparently will taste like Strawberry too.

Ben & Jerry must not have the mad skillz of Mearls & Cook.

Explained over here - http://www.enworld.org/forum/5775922-post34.html

 

[Argyle King]

A lot of this discussion assumes that D&D is still considered 'home' for players. While I'm sure it is for many, I'd wager that there are more than a small few who dared adventure beyond WoTC lands, and have found themselves richer for having done so.

 

[enrious]

A lot of this discussion assumes that D&D is still considered 'home' for players. While I'm sure it is for many, I'd wager that there are more than a small few who dared adventure beyond WoTC lands, and have found themselves richer for having done so.

Seems like more than a few people here are Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, RetroClone, etc. fans - and yet, they're here and posting.

 

[Argyle King]

Seems like more than a few people here are Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, RetroClone, etc. fans - and yet, they're here and posting.

I am posting as well (as someone who now calls 'home' somewhere else.)

I think there are plenty of people who do want to come home. On the other hand, I also think the ball is currently in WoTC's court so to speak. With 4th Edition, I blindly jumped it. With 5th, while I am intrigued by many of the ideas, I feel as though -for the first time- that D&D actually needs to compete with other games to get me back. Where it may have been an easy skill challenge to win my interest before, I now feel some of the DCs are moderate or even difficult.

 

[thedungeondelver]

Which is insane.

It's like saying our ice cream tastes like Chocolate and Vanilla. And if you really love Strawberry, it apparently will taste like Strawberry too.

Ben & Jerry must not have the mad skillz of Mearls & Cook.

Yeah, that's just crazy talk!

 

[Jack99]

Yeah, that's just crazy talk!

Its called Rainbow Ice in my country!


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