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Folks Who Came Back With 5E: Did You Stay with 5E?
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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9526999" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>First version of D&D I played was 2e. I had encountered the Swedish translation of Mentzer Basic/Expert (which contained some things from the Companion rules, I understand), but never got around to running or playing it. I played it on and off, mixing it with other games until the release of 3e at which point I switched and did not look back (though I've still never been D&D exclusive). Switched to 3.5e later. My group tried 4e and didn't like it, so we kinda went back to 3.5e for a while until Pathfinder showed up. After some time with that, I got weary of the crunch level, particularly at higher levels. It also felt like much of the newer material had a whole lot of complexity for complexity's sake, and I was getting kind of disillusioned and looking around for an alternative. I briefly tried 13th age, but I kinda need more support than that game had at first.</p><p></p><p>So when they started to playtest 5e, I took a pretty keen interest, and was originally pretty active with it, but the group wasn't too interested in keeping up with playtests so I kinda dropped it until the actual release. But on release we ran with it, and after a while I got a Princes of the Apocalypse campaign going which we almost finished... when Covid hit. Moving to online gaming for a while, we decided to try Pathfinder 2e, with me running Extinction Curse. But after the first two parts, I got a bit bored with the extreme dungeon focus in the adventures, particularly after already having run a really big dungeon in Princes of the Apocalypse. So I've been kind of off of D&D and its ilk – I've been a player in some campaigns in both 5e and PF2, but the last game I actually ran was Infinity, and right now I'm casting eyes at both Fabula Ultima and Savage Worlds. I have not gotten the 2024 books – I might at some point, but I currently feel that while the changes seem to be a net positive, I'm not sure they're positive enough to justify getting a new set of rule books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 9526999, member: 907"] First version of D&D I played was 2e. I had encountered the Swedish translation of Mentzer Basic/Expert (which contained some things from the Companion rules, I understand), but never got around to running or playing it. I played it on and off, mixing it with other games until the release of 3e at which point I switched and did not look back (though I've still never been D&D exclusive). Switched to 3.5e later. My group tried 4e and didn't like it, so we kinda went back to 3.5e for a while until Pathfinder showed up. After some time with that, I got weary of the crunch level, particularly at higher levels. It also felt like much of the newer material had a whole lot of complexity for complexity's sake, and I was getting kind of disillusioned and looking around for an alternative. I briefly tried 13th age, but I kinda need more support than that game had at first. So when they started to playtest 5e, I took a pretty keen interest, and was originally pretty active with it, but the group wasn't too interested in keeping up with playtests so I kinda dropped it until the actual release. But on release we ran with it, and after a while I got a Princes of the Apocalypse campaign going which we almost finished... when Covid hit. Moving to online gaming for a while, we decided to try Pathfinder 2e, with me running Extinction Curse. But after the first two parts, I got a bit bored with the extreme dungeon focus in the adventures, particularly after already having run a really big dungeon in Princes of the Apocalypse. So I've been kind of off of D&D and its ilk – I've been a player in some campaigns in both 5e and PF2, but the last game I actually ran was Infinity, and right now I'm casting eyes at both Fabula Ultima and Savage Worlds. I have not gotten the 2024 books – I might at some point, but I currently feel that while the changes seem to be a net positive, I'm not sure they're positive enough to justify getting a new set of rule books. [/QUOTE]
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