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<blockquote data-quote="Wulfgar76" data-source="post: 6167766" data-attributes="member: 61867">This is not my experience.I was a 3e, then a 4e, then a Pathfinder DM. 10 years of 3rd edition had burnt me out, so I hopped to 4th. Eventually my 4th edition 'fatigue' reached critical mass and I jumped over to Pathfinder. As my Pathfinder party grew in level (only to about level 8), the 3rd Edition headaches I had endured for 10 years crept back in. Then the D&amp;D Next playest packets started coming out. All it took was the description of Bounded Accuracy and I became a convert. Next gave me enough of what I liked about previous editions and eliminated the parts of 3rd and 4th that were causing me grief. So I was eager to make the jump to Next.Most of my group skipped 4e entirely and pretty much loathed it. They were committed Pathfinder players, but they too were getting burnt out by the complexity, bloat and broken bits. They were wary that Next was '4e Lite', but eventually realized it didn't have things that annoyed them about 4e, and still had enough of the 'iconic D&amp;D experience&quot; to try it out. Like me they were refreshed at the freedom and 'breathing room' over their previous games.All of us collectively had fond memories of playing 2nd Edition, especially with regard to gridless, theater of the mind immersion and fast-paced, improvisational, cinematic combats. Lo and behold Next managed to recreate that aspect as well.At this point, none of us is too keen on going back to the old headaches of past editions – we're having too much fun playing Next.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulfgar76, post: 6167766, member: 61867"] This is not my experience. I was a 3e, then a 4e, then a Pathfinder DM. 10 years of 3rd edition had burnt me out, so I hopped to 4th. Eventually my 4th edition 'fatigue' reached critical mass and I jumped over to Pathfinder. As my Pathfinder party grew in level (only to about level 8), the 3rd Edition headaches I had endured for 10 years crept back in. Then the D&D Next playest packets started coming out. All it took was the description of Bounded Accuracy and I became a convert. Next gave me enough of what I liked about previous editions and eliminated the parts of 3rd and 4th that were causing me grief. So I was eager to make the jump to Next. Most of my group skipped 4e entirely and pretty much loathed it. They were committed Pathfinder players, but they too were getting burnt out by the complexity, bloat and broken bits. They were wary that Next was '4e Lite', but eventually realized it didn't have things that annoyed them about 4e, and still had enough of the 'iconic D&D experience" to try it out. Like me they were refreshed at the freedom and 'breathing room' over their previous games. All of us collectively had fond memories of playing 2nd Edition, especially with regard to gridless, theater of the mind immersion and fast-paced, improvisational, cinematic combats. Lo and behold Next managed to recreate that aspect as well. At this point, none of us is too keen on going back to the old headaches of past editions – we're having too much fun playing Next. [/QUOTE]

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