Aberzanzorax
Hero
Everything aboot 5E looks boring.
I blame Canada.
Everything aboot 5E looks boring.
I don't see anything currently worth my money. The classes look boring, the races look boring, and the monsters in the bestiary look boring. I've put aboot 12 hours of testing into it too and it's really, really boring at the table.
I don't want a boring edition of D&D =(
Well, the good thing is that WotC isn't coming and taking any of your books from older editions, so you can continue to play them to your hearts content.
There's probably enough 4e material out there to last your lifetime![]()
I kind of want the rules to be something you could call boring.I find the interest and excitement come not from the rules themselves, but from the people at the table. The real question is - do these rules enable your people engaging and cool and interesting play? If not, what is missing from the rules that you need, and/or what exists in the rules that gets in your way?
If only this were guaranteed to be true. My edition-of-chioce's current "book" is the Compendium. There's no word whether they intend to keep this up indefinitely or taking it away some time after 5E is published.
I too wonder what you find boring about it. Is it bounded accuracy and the resultant hp/damage scaling that, that, in combination with a stab at 4e-style 'ease of DMing' reduces all monsters to little more than various size blocks of hps? Is it just a case of 'nothing new,' as all the classes have their familiar old spells (or lack thereof) working more or less as they always have? Is it the old-school dungeon-crawl quality of Caves of Chaos?
I have a like amount of time invested in testing, and my impression is starkly at odds with yours. I enjoyed it immensely. What is boring to you might be thrillingly nostalgic to me...I don't see anything currently worth my money. The classes look boring, the races look boring, and the monsters in the bestiary look boring. I've put aboot 12 hours of testing into it too and it's really, really boring at the table.
I don't see anything currently worth my money. The classes look boring, the races look boring, and the monsters in the bestiary look boring. I've put aboot 12 hours of testing into it too and it's really, really boring at the table.
I don't want a boring edition of D&D =(
If only this were guaranteed to be true. My edition-of-chioce's current "book" is the Compendium. There's no word whether they intend to keep this up indefinitely or taking it away some time after 5E is published.
The key material I need to continue running the game is adventure support. I currently have about 2 and a half years worth of good adventures. Assuming another year of Dungeon before they switch to publishing only 5E stuff is another year and a half of adventures. 4 years is a good amount, but hardly a lifetime. And that's being generous about the quality. It's probably more like 2 years worth once I weed out the bad stuff.
I don't see anything currently worth my money. The classes look boring, the races look boring, and the monsters in the bestiary look boring. I've put aboot 12 hours of testing into it too and it's really, really boring at the table.
I don't want a boring edition of D&D =(