D&D General Are you jumping ship? What will you be switching to?

[eyeheartawk]

Also, isn't Cepheus under the OGL via Mongoose Traveller?

 

[Buzzqw]

Also, isn't Cepheus under the OGL via Mongoose Traveller?

my printed copy of Cepheus has the OGL page

BHH

 

[SAVeira]

No plans to jump ship. Already play multiple systems. No need to abandon my current D&D game. That would very much a throwing the baby out with the bathwater situation.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

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This is the new revised edition. I would use this one if I ran it again, but I don't have time to invest a couple years into the same story, so I would personally go with Serpent for Pulp Cthulhu.

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I have the recent slipcased version of Masks (amazing product!) and will run it for my players starting sometime during 2024.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

The only WotC product I would have considered buying in the foreseeable future is a new Dark Sun book. Even then I'd most likely port it to another system.

I genuinely wonder if we're going to hit a point where playing 5e/OneD&D/etc. is stigmatized. Not just by long-time haters like me, but by a bigger portion of the hobby. Once certain brands become toxic enough (Big Tobacco, Facebook, etc) they never really recover. They can still make money, for sure, but not like they used to.

 

[thundershot]

I’m not changing systems. Not when I have hundreds of dollars worth of unused adventures (both WOTC and 3P).

 

[Bupp]

I currently think I'll be jumping ship, though I'm currently in "wait and see" mode.

I'm curious about what MCDM and Kobold Press have in store (love the balls of them calling it Project Black Flag).

Since I like some genre bending in my D&D, I'm currently looking at Worlds Without Number and Dungeon World (for that Powered by the Apocalypse flavor).

 

[John Dallman]

Hillarious to me are the people who are abandoning D&D to play a game that only exists because of the OGL license. Whether you CHOOSE not to purchase new D&D books, or CAN'T purchase new Pathfinder/DCC/OSE books, you're gonna be reliant on your ingenuity to expand the game.

And the problem with that is?

OK, I'm an old-timer, who started playing in 1979. But the concept of DMs who need published adventures is a bit surprising to me.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Man, it sure is weird people are choosing to support a thing that's being assailed in protest against the assailants. Just an absolute kneeslapper. Move over Cedric the Entertainer, the basic concept of protest is the new king of comedy.

 

[Grunadler]

My Cypher System library takes up most of my gaming shelves. My 5e game running over 2yrs will continue (we don't use DDB) and it is a Homebrew. Most of my 5e library is actually 3rd party books. Looking forward to Mothership, as well.

 

[overgeeked]

And the problem with that is?

OK, I'm an old-timer, who started playing in 1979. But the concept of DMs who need published adventures is a bit surprising to me.

I'm an old-timer as well, not quite as old-timer as you, but the concept of referees who need published rules is a bit surprising to me.

 

[The-Magic-Sword]

I jumped ship to Pathfinder on Second Edition's release (you see me around here mostly for the General DND type conversations that have the overlap), looking at the poll, welcome to the potential new people to my fave system?

 

[Grendel_Khan]

I jumped ship to Pathfinder on Second Edition's release (see see me around here mostly for the General DND type conversations that have the overlap), looking at the poll, welcome to the potential new people to my fave system?

Not exactly a surprise that the top result for switching from 5e is the most 5e-like of all presented options. DCC and OSE aren't even up there. Did you expect a sudden spike in Dungeon World interest?

 

[The-Magic-Sword]

Not exactly a surprise that the top result for switching from 5e is the most 5e-like of all presented options. DCC and OSE aren't even up there. Did you expect a sudden spike in Dungeon World interest?

I'm not OP, but I actually expected more representation for just about every option on the poll-- a subset of people running for a slew of PBTA games, Cortex, Fate, etc.

I actually happened to buy OSE Advanced Fantasy literally five minutes before you mentioned it though, funny enough, it would never be a full switch due to my group's tastes but I've been wanting to try some OSR as a novelty and for educational reasons, I actually had DCC from a humble bundle somewhere here as well.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'm not going D&D 5E again without a pretty serious climbdown, and it's honestly a pity, because I was intending to run a Shadow of the Dragonlords campaign and come back to 5E after I'd stopped for a year or so.

I'm not sure what I'll run instead. Keep going with Spire for sure for now but I did want to do some epic fantasy. Hmph.

 

[Redwizard007]

And the problem with that is?

OK, I'm an old-timer, who started playing in 1979. But the concept of DMs who need published adventures is a bit surprising to me.

Nerull's black balls! I'd hope you have things figured out after 40+ years.

 

[Fenris-77]

I'm not going D&D 5E again without a pretty serious climbdown, and it's honestly a pity, because I was intending to run a Shadow of the Dragonlords campaign and come back to 5E after I'd stopped for a year or so.

I'm not sure what I'll run instead. Keep going with Spire for sure for now but I did want to do some epic fantasy. Hmph.

Just run it with a different system.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

I'm not sure what I'll run instead. Keep going with Spire for sure for now but I did want to do some epic fantasy. Hmph.

How are you liking Spire? I love the setting (how could one not?) but I haven't messed with the system yet. I've been really into running FitD so in theory I'd like the Resistance system, but something about it doesn't quite click in my head.

 

[Citizen Mane]

I'm about to be playing in a Pathfinder 2e game. If I were running a fantasy game, it'd either be one of the older editions of D&D (1st, 3rd), Warhammer Fantasy 2e, Swords of the Serpentine, Burning Wheel, or Torchbearer 2e. Then again, I'm not so much jumping ship as finally getting onboard again.

 

[Haplo781]

The only WotC product I would have considered buying in the foreseeable future is a new Dark Sun book. Even then I'd most likely port it to another system.

I genuinely wonder if we're going to hit a point where playing 5e/OneD&D/etc. is stigmatized. Not just by long-time haters like me, but by a bigger portion of the hobby. Once certain brands become toxic enough (Big Tobacco, Facebook, etc) they never really recover. They can still make money, for sure, but not like they used to.

If you want a Dark Sun book to port to another system just get the 4e one.