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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6401312" data-attributes="member: 6779234">I ran a BECMI campaign in the late 80s and early-mid 90s, and played in BECMI and 2e games. I got out of D&D due to personal circumstances (group broke up, and then I had a child). Modern board games just seemed a better fit with my time available, and I regularly game; just not RPGs. Now, my life has settled down again, I've moved back to D&D. I've adopted 5e (rather than going back to BECMI) because:1. I fancied a change.2. I thought 5e would be more palatable to potential players.3. 5e looked really good. What I'd seen of 3e (I actually bought the PHB and was horrified) and 4e made me run a mile, but this new edition seems in line with my tastes, both in terms of game design and graphic design. It had got rid of a lot of the horrible design elements of old-school, while retaining much of the flavour. As my partner, a staple of my old gaming group, was also impressed with 5e, it seemed the logical thing to do.I've been a running a 5e campaign for a few weeks, for my partner and our daughter, and it's gone really well. I'm getting my DMing mojo back, and it's great to see our child being really creative and logical when overcoming challenges in the game.And now I am here, trying to inject some old-school sensibilities into what is an excellent iteration of D&D. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />My board gaming group is now going to start playing 5e. All five of us have played at least once in older editions (2e being the most recent!). I don't know if we will be able to find time to run a solid campaign (work, kids), but we'll give it a good go.I'm also going to give Star Wars RPG a try, if I can persuede them to play, and I'm also going to dabble with some indie RPGs like The Quiet Year. Board games are booming, in terms of design and popularity, but it's also an exciting time to be an RPG player, from what I can see.</blockquote>

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