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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5808647" data-attributes="member: 14159">It has made me cautiously optimistic about 5e.I don't know if I'll switch to it or stick with 3.5e, in fact I'll probably still stick with 3.5e because by this point I have over a decade of experience with 3.x and have really got a system I like.However, from the sound of things I'll probably at least buy the Core Rules for 5e and be a lot more willing to play a 5e game than a 4e game.4e was an Epic-level botch from WotC on a few levels.  The notorious early marketing of it came across as "3e isn't fun, and you aren't having fun right if you play it, we know what fun is and we'll tell you what is fun!  Soon everybody will play 4e!"  Not literally what was said, but that was the attitude that bled through.It looks like WotC is trying to be conciliatory and officially acknowledge the broken fanbase.  I remember when here on ENWorld, early in the Edition Wars, when 4e proponents would claim there was no broken fanbase and only a "vocal minority" online still played pre-4e games and the overwhelming majority of players had switched.The idea that WotC knows it's competing against its own products, it can't arbitrarily create a new game and "force" everybody to play it because they can stick with prior products.  If WotC wants 5e to succeed, they need to be inclusive of a variety of play styles and respectful of the entire heritage of D&D, not scrapping it all for Johnny-come-lately new cosmologies, lore and terminology.</blockquote>

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