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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6573217" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya. Seems I'm like a lot of others... didn't really like where the Next playtest was going. I pretty much gave up on them when Monty left, and seeing what they were doing (or not doing) during the last half year or year was less than encouraging.Then the Starter Set came out. I ordered it "by accident" (my FLGS misinterpreted what I was asking for and ordered me one). I had about $30 in gift certificates from over a year or two ago (no time limit) so I figured what the hell? and grabbed it. Gave it a VERY quick look through, stuck it on my shelf for a month or two. One game day, half the players were going to run late by at least an hour...so I pulled it out and said "Lets give it a try while we're waiting?". I handed the pregens to them, each player picked one, and off we went. The rest, as they say, is history.We were instantly hooked by how easy and "basic d&d" if felt in what was presented. No modifiers for a bajillion things, simple initiative, easy hp and AC tracking, movement was simple, no mention of AoO, movement reductions, feats, etc, etc, etc. Needless to say, it was a nice refreshing eye-opener from what I had read in the playtest as well as from what we were all expecting...a mish-mash of 3e, 4e, and PF crap.I think it was two sessions after that one that I stopped our then-played Dominion Rules campaign and we started to play through the Starter Set. We all love the rules now and play it as our go-to D&D style game now...go figure! (before that, it was a Hackmaster4e/AD&D1e mix or Dark Dungeons [a BECMI/RC retro clone]).I can easily state that 5e is one of my top 5 RPG systems of choice.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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