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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlin the Tuna" data-source="post: 6003792" data-attributes="member: 55638">My group quit keeping up with the current state of D&D when WotC started pushing out Essentials material, so we've felt like we're playing an "old edition" for a while.We've been pretty big fans of 4E even as we whine about its shortcomings to each other, so 5E is barely on our radar. There are some nice prospects -- e.g. the ability to run a combat in under 10 minutes -- and some that are a pure regression to tropes we sick of years ago -- e.g. the idea of D&D as a war of attrition that demands throwaway encounters in order to have a meaningful climax -- but in general I think I'm the only one that's paying any attention. Certainly none of us are at all interested in going back to 3E or its offspring, so what has been shown so far has been a mixed bag at best.The bigger trend we're coming across is a waning interest in D&D as a genre. The Warhammer junkies in the group are reading up on Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy, somebody picked up Mouse Guard, we finally got to play a game of Dread (great, as expected!), and recently tried out Our Last Best Hope (great, as hoped for!). Since I wrapped up our 4E Red Hand of Doom in April, we haven't touched D&D at all. The only active campaign we have is a Gamma World one which is theoretically wrapping up. At this point I think I'm hoping for great things from 5E if only to drum up interest in fantasy RPGing to the point where I can be a player in one again.Basically, 4E still looks like our fantasy drug of choice at the moment, but the bigger "threat" (aside from everyone being too lazy to actually DM a session ever) is abandoning medieval fantasy.</blockquote>

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