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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 6880401" data-attributes="member: 6801286">We played in person around a table. The campaign module does of course provide a map for all the important locations. But I think our first time DM may have felt like he was expected to only read us the pre-written text, and add no details of his own. In fact, the module instructs you to do as such. (what they mean of course, is to not read the DM notes to your players by accident, but I can see how a new DM might think like he should only read the description that was provided.) I personally feel that adding your own description is a better way to go.I definitely think I could get used to it. 5th edition plays very easy, and the rules are extra simple when you're already used to 3.5 rules. I did miss the number crunching, as did a female friend of mine, but I was able to put all that aside, and just focus on the role playing and fun. And we had a lot of fun.I could definitely see how it would be just as much fun as 3.5, with a more experienced DM and group. But I also don't see any added value of playing 5th over 3.5th edition. I didn't notice anything that would make it more fun for me than 3.5. So for me, there's no reason to switch.Are there more options at higher levels to reach the same sort of character tweaking that exists in 3.5?As I said, this was just my first experience with 5th edition.Only two people in the group were people with whom I had role played before. All the others had never played DnD at all, as far as I know.Speaking of bias.... That's an awful lot of negative assumptions you're making there.Wait... at what point did I say that I didn't like it?You might be right. While several of our players would often find themselves at 1 or 2 hit points during any combat encounter, none of them were ever at 0 hit points. So often my barbarian would come in the next round, and cut down what ever enemy was attacking them. One short rest later, and we'd all be healed up. Maybe the system is intended to be this way. It feels deadlier, but you're able to recover much faster from injuries.</blockquote>

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