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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8960322" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I mean that's a fair distinction. Really the question here is not &quot;will there be a split&quot; but rather &quot;will there be an unusually large split for an edition change&quot;.I personally suspect it will, for a time, be an unusually large split, at least for the tiny amount of stuff there is to actually split over. OneD&amp;D seems to offer so little, while at the same time managing to step on may hardcore 5e lovers' toes with what little it does offer, and while also at the same time promising to empower people to keep their same old books and still play new official adventures, etc, thereby de-incentivizing switching. I think a lot of casual 5e players will, at least for a while, blow it off as a sorry excuse to make them re-buy core books, and a lot of hardcore 5e players will reject it on x, y, or z grounds of minor changes they dislike (for me personally the prepared spellcasting system is the dealbreaker, but plenty of other people will have there own reasons). Also current WotC management will probably figure out another way to completely alienate their customers in the next year, and even if they don't I think the number of people who will immediately be champing at the bit to try the new system for the sake of trying the newest offering from WotC, even in its initial state of just core books, is not what it was a few months ago.I don't think it will be a permanent schism. I imagine a lot of holdout 5e groups will eventually switch years down the line when they get new players who can't track down a classic 5e PHB, or when they have actually used up the player options of or generally got a bit more tired of 5e, and presumably by that point there will be enough new OneD&amp;D player facing content to make it worth playing over 5e on those grounds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8960322, member: 6988941"] I mean that's a fair distinction. Really the question here is not "will there be a split" but rather "will there be an unusually large split for an edition change". I personally suspect it will, for a time, be an unusually large split, at least for the tiny amount of stuff there is to actually split over. OneD&D seems to offer so little, while at the same time managing to step on may hardcore 5e lovers' toes with what little it does offer, and while also at the same time promising to empower people to keep their same old books and still play new official adventures, etc, thereby de-incentivizing switching. I think a lot of casual 5e players will, at least for a while, blow it off as a sorry excuse to make them re-buy core books, and a lot of hardcore 5e players will reject it on x, y, or z grounds of minor changes they dislike (for me personally the prepared spellcasting system is the dealbreaker, but plenty of other people will have there own reasons). Also current WotC management will probably figure out another way to completely alienate their customers in the next year, and even if they don't I think the number of people who will immediately be champing at the bit to try the new system for the sake of trying the newest offering from WotC, even in its initial state of just core books, is not what it was a few months ago. I don't think it will be a permanent schism. I imagine a lot of holdout 5e groups will eventually switch years down the line when they get new players who can't track down a classic 5e PHB, or when they have actually used up the player options of or generally got a bit more tired of 5e, and presumably by that point there will be enough new OneD&D player facing content to make it worth playing over 5e on those grounds. [/QUOTE]

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