D&D General Did You "Return" because of some Edition of D&D?

[doctorbadwolf]

4e was the first version of D&D i Enjoyed as much as the old HeroQuest game I had played. D&D is a very idiosyncratic game. Little is broadly intuitive.

It wasn’t until 4e that I liked that.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I guess I did stay on the periphery of D&D, because I played a hack of WoD that was thematically D&D, and I played games like Star Wars RCR and d20 Modern and Alternity.

But, while 2e managed to just barely keep me interested by being the “same system” as the D&D video games I liked, 3/.5e just…didn’t. I remember telling a friend it was baroque without getting enough benefit from the complexity, like college student jazz bands.

That wasn’t necessarily fair, of course.

 

[Stormonu]

You know, it's really weird that so many people are reading this as "did you stop playing D&D" rather than "did you leave the hobby." I even went back and reread the title, the poll and the OP and they all ask about the hobby, not D&D specifically.

Does switching to Mechwarrior: Dark Age (exclusively) for a couple years count?

 

[Reynard]

Does switching to Mechwarrior: Dark Age (exclusively) for a couple years count?

If that's a minis game as opposed to an RPGi guess I'll allow it...

 

[EzekielRaiden]

That wasn’t necessarily fair, of course.

Personally, I think that's one of the kindest valid assessments one can give of 3.X. But saying anything further is not really respecting the spirit of the request to avoid edition warring, so I'll keep the other things I would say to myself.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Personally, I think that's one of the kindest valid assessments one can give of 3.X. But saying anything further is not really respecting the spirit of the request to avoid edition warring, so I'll keep the other things I would say to myself.

Yeah, best to keep it positive as possible.

 

[Jack Daniel]

I've never left the hobby for any length of time, but 3.5 made me return to playing OD&D.

 

[overgeeked]

I started in 1984 with B/X and AD&D. We played AD&D through to the launch of 4E, switched to that for the life of tge edition, and switched to 5E with the playtest. I’ve played gobs of other games over the years. I never left RPGs.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I started out with AD&D 1st edition around 1982, but I fairly quickly shifted to other RPGs (Traveller etc). I occasionally played 2nd and 3rd edition over the intervening years but didn't really return to D&D until 5e, which I found suited me much better than earlier editions (although it's not without its faults, obviously).

 

[not-so-newguy]

My home group broke apart and I hadn't played d&d in years. So when 5e was published, I found an FLGS. I'm really happy with this edition. I felt constrained when I played/ran both 3rd and 4th edition.