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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrokenTwin" data-source="post: 8270472" data-attributes="member: 7017978">Upfront: I no longer play 5E due to finding other systems that fit my preferences better, but I am currently playing in an AiME campaign, which fixes some of the issues I have with the system.As somebody who started their RPG journey with D&D 3.5, I've been house ruling D&D almost as long as I've been playing it, and have drifted back and forth between perspectives on 'D&D vs other systems". I find D20 systems relatively easy to mod compared to other systems, but I believe that has more to do with my familiarity with the system and extensive house-ruling history than any innate aspect of D&D being easier to modify. For me, the moment I fully converted over to preferring other systems is when I realized that the end result of my changes were closer to other systems than the system I started with. At that point, it's less headache for both myself and my players to just use the other system.I think a lot of people are in a similar boat to myself, and that drives a lot of the "just use system X instead" in the various "How do I do X in D&D 5E?" threads, because we're applying our own perspectives, and from our experiences, RPGs became easier and more fun once we made the leap. But that's not necessarily true of other people. Yeah, sure, there's definitely some people who 'ride-or-die' for D&D who would probably be a lot happier playing a system that more closely matches their preferences, but others are perfectly happy in their selection, and just want help making something work in the system of their choice.It's something that comes up a lot with D&D because for a lot of people, D&D is literally the only system they've ever tried, or even heard of. I do have to echo that I've never seen someone tell others to switch systems mid-campaign, although I'd be shocked if it hasn't happened. I do think it's valid to recommend a system that you think might better suit the requestor's preferences when they're asking about starting a new campaign, though if it were me, I'd probably phrase it in the sense of "System X does this well, I'd look there for inspiration". Then the requestor can choose on their own if they want to crib from the other system, switch over entirely, or ignore it.</blockquote>

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