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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ken Spencer" data-source="post: 8760691" data-attributes="member: 6892609">I’ve been playing since 1984, and have played every edition and found a reason to like each. Often, I find a different system to play, wandering away from D&D but always coming back. Will I follow along into this new not-6e?Likely not. Here’s why:1) WotC’s writing has been lackluster. Clear, easy to read, but uninteresting. It lacks pizzazz, power, and umph. It is not bad, just increasingly has become more and more bland over the past decade. I do not enjoy reading the books, which is one of my main draws to any text. 2) Their adventures are not the type suitable for my play style. I like adventures that can be dropped into an ongoing campaign with ease, where the setting elements can be taken out and swapped for our table setting, the plots are self-contained or at the very least part of a series that leaves plenty of room for other adventures.3) Unlike previous edition changes, I have more options here. I’ve replaced all of the 2e stuff destroyed by a leaky roof with reprints from DTRPG, and added some to the collection that I never purchased, only saw while reading Dragon. I play Castles and Crusades, adapt other OSR adventures to it for my home game, love DCC/ MCC and adapt those as well. There is a wealth of material at hand today. I do not have to stick with the new edition, or not-edition, just to keep up with new content. 4) I am not a freelancer anymore, but have a permanent writing position. I don’t have to stay current to find work, so unless the boss says go learn this thing, I view One D&D with a resounding meh.5) My wife loathes 5e. We don’t play it in our home game because of this. She came into the hobby with 5e, then discovered the OSR and never looked back.I hope it does well for WotC and that people love it, that it draws in new players, that the brand continues to grow. I’ll continue to check out new D&D adventures and settings, and if there is one I like, I’ll pick it up and adapt it to my home game. But, I will not be buying the corebooks. I have enough PHB, DMG, and Monster Manuals with the same info but with different numbers.</blockquote>

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