I'll play them if I'm playing with a table that's using them. I plan on buying the books and raiding them for loose content, but otherwise... it doesn't look like it's going to be better than what's already my least favorite version of the game.
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D&D (2024) Do you plan to adopt D&D5.5One2024Redux?
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Incenjucar
Legend
I imagine more granular "Are you excited?" options would provide clarity. A lot of folk buy whatever ensures they can play rather than what they want.
the Jester
Legend
Well, some of them, but not all.
I will not be adopting free floating ASIs at first level; the shift from magic b/p/s damage to other damage types; the incoming abundance of force damage, temporary hit points, and teleportation; the shift from legendary actions to multiple reactions; guns as standard equipment; buffs to cantrips and other forms of spellcaster power creep; more healing power creep; and other changes that actively make the game worse (in my opinion).
I will almost certainly include the new weapon mastery rules. There are probably a bunch of other changes that I'll include, but it will be case by case, not wholesale.
IF the final version of the 2024 rules seems like a significant improvement and scales back the things I don't like, I might include most of it, but at this point I am about 90% certain that it will include fairly major elements that I will not use.
I will not be adopting free floating ASIs at first level; the shift from magic b/p/s damage to other damage types; the incoming abundance of force damage, temporary hit points, and teleportation; the shift from legendary actions to multiple reactions; guns as standard equipment; buffs to cantrips and other forms of spellcaster power creep; more healing power creep; and other changes that actively make the game worse (in my opinion).
I will almost certainly include the new weapon mastery rules. There are probably a bunch of other changes that I'll include, but it will be case by case, not wholesale.
IF the final version of the 2024 rules seems like a significant improvement and scales back the things I don't like, I might include most of it, but at this point I am about 90% certain that it will include fairly major elements that I will not use.
grimmgoose
Explorer
As of right now, no. I'm just not interested in paying WOTC for what seemingly seems to be errata. The biggest hooks to me are going to be spellcasting changes (no more spells that makes a DM's life difficult), an updated Monster Manual (ideally with monster design that hearkens back to 4E), and an actually-good DMG.
Everything that I like from the Unearthed Arcana, I've plugged into my current game.
I would've been significantly more interested in an honest-to-goodness 6E. Not looking forward to 5E, again, for 10 more years.
Everything that I like from the Unearthed Arcana, I've plugged into my current game.
I would've been significantly more interested in an honest-to-goodness 6E. Not looking forward to 5E, again, for 10 more years.
Muad'dib Pendragon
The Spice must flow... From the Holy Grail
My OCD will drive the purchase. Adoption is a definite maybe
Bacon Bits
Hero
Sure, probably. But not with much excitement, and probably not right away. And probably with no real plans to buy anything past the big 3.
Prior to 2022, our table of 6-8 players bought at least 2 copies of every book that WotC sold. A couple of us just collected the books. They're published slow enough that it's not a big deal. Since the OGL thing... none of us has bought any books. The quality feels like it has steadily declined since 2014, as well as the fact that as problems have come up WotC keeps publishing books that didn't do anything to address them. OGL was just the last straw.
And now looking at what is coming out of OneD&D playtest? It's very frustrating. Changes that could have been fixed in 2016 when people noticed they were silly and probably bad, and fixed with just a list of recommended fixes to small issues. Or they could've done it in Xanathar's or Tasha's, or at any other point in the last 10 years.
Not actual changes to address the foundational problems of spellcasting being stupid good, or the encounter system and rest system basically being non functional, or the shapechange and summoning spells, or how multiclassing is still just a terrible mechanic. The problems that are so big that a DM can't fix them by themselves.
It's like AD&D 2e. It's rewriting Ranger while keeping descending armor class.
So, I'm sure I'll pick them up, because they will be technically better. But my table is looking at other games, and has been doing both since last year. We just don't want to play a game with such big problems that they just don't won't ever address. Especially if they're going to produce adventures that feel like I have to put a ton of effort into them to make them work.
Prior to 2022, our table of 6-8 players bought at least 2 copies of every book that WotC sold. A couple of us just collected the books. They're published slow enough that it's not a big deal. Since the OGL thing... none of us has bought any books. The quality feels like it has steadily declined since 2014, as well as the fact that as problems have come up WotC keeps publishing books that didn't do anything to address them. OGL was just the last straw.
And now looking at what is coming out of OneD&D playtest? It's very frustrating. Changes that could have been fixed in 2016 when people noticed they were silly and probably bad, and fixed with just a list of recommended fixes to small issues. Or they could've done it in Xanathar's or Tasha's, or at any other point in the last 10 years.
Not actual changes to address the foundational problems of spellcasting being stupid good, or the encounter system and rest system basically being non functional, or the shapechange and summoning spells, or how multiclassing is still just a terrible mechanic. The problems that are so big that a DM can't fix them by themselves.
It's like AD&D 2e. It's rewriting Ranger while keeping descending armor class.
So, I'm sure I'll pick them up, because they will be technically better. But my table is looking at other games, and has been doing both since last year. We just don't want to play a game with such big problems that they just don't won't ever address. Especially if they're going to produce adventures that feel like I have to put a ton of effort into them to make them work.
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