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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6309845" data-attributes="member: 7006">And there's nothing wrong with admitting that the particular roleplaying style that is enhanced by the game mechanics of 4E is not one you are completely comfortable or happy with.&nbsp; Every set of mechanics will either be a boon or a hindrance depending on your way of doing things.&nbsp; 3E works fabulously for some people, but not for others.&nbsp; BD&amp;D the same way.&nbsp; Vampire: The Masquerade is the greatest set of mechanics for a specific set of roleplayers out there.&nbsp; And yes... 5E will be the be-all-and-end-all for Dungeons &amp; Dragons game mechanics for a certain slice of the population.But if any of us think 5E will be that game for everybody is fooling ourselves.&nbsp; I guarantee you that when the book is finally released that there will be a large swathe of the playerbase that is going to find the &quot;looseness&quot; of the rules unsatisfying.&nbsp; The specificity will be lacking for them.&nbsp; It won't be what they want in a D&amp;D game.&nbsp; But then again... there's nothing wrong with that way of thinking either.The only reason there is an issue is because too many people still get caught up in the idea that their preferred method of D&amp;D should be and is THE method of D&amp;D.&nbsp; Any other edition isn't &quot;real D&amp;D&quot; and they spend hours on end railing against it, cluttering up threads on message boards trying to make the rest of us listen to their &quot;words of wisdom&quot; on the subject.&nbsp; A subject which the rest of us all know to be absolutely baloney, but trying convincing those people otherwise.&nbsp; Can't be done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6309845, member: 7006"] And there's nothing wrong with admitting that the particular roleplaying style that is enhanced by the game mechanics of 4E is not one you are completely comfortable or happy with. Every set of mechanics will either be a boon or a hindrance depending on your way of doing things. 3E works fabulously for some people, but not for others. BD&D the same way. Vampire: The Masquerade is the greatest set of mechanics for a specific set of roleplayers out there. And yes... 5E will be the be-all-and-end-all for Dungeons & Dragons game mechanics for a certain slice of the population. But if any of us think 5E will be that game for everybody is fooling ourselves. I guarantee you that when the book is finally released that there will be a large swathe of the playerbase that is going to find the "looseness" of the rules unsatisfying. The specificity will be lacking for them. It won't be what they want in a D&D game. But then again... there's nothing wrong with that way of thinking either. The only reason there is an issue is because too many people still get caught up in the idea that [I]their[/I] preferred method of D&D should be and is [I]THE[/I] method of D&D. Any other edition isn't "real D&D" and they spend hours on end railing against it, cluttering up threads on message boards trying to make the rest of us listen to their "words of wisdom" on the subject. A subject which the rest of us all know to be absolutely baloney, but trying convincing those people otherwise. Can't be done. [/QUOTE]

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