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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 6045822" data-attributes="member: 40522">Yeah, I "moved on" about 2010. Pathfinder is my D&D of choice now.I've kept abreast of the 5E developments and have been downloading the playtest packets and all that jazz, but bluntly, I'm just not all that invested in being part of a massive effort to playtest the new edition. Why? First off, there's the simple restraint of available time for working adults. It's a real challenge for me and the gamers I know to keep a regular game going on even a bi-weekly basis. I was involved with a group that was interested in playing 5E when the playtest packets first started coming out, but the idea of trying 5E was quickly shot down--no one wanted to spend our limited time learning a new system, we wanted to play a game that we already knew and that we knew wouldn't have constant updates. (Which is, ironically, one of the major reasons that particular group dropped 4E for Pathfinder. Que sera, sera.)In many ways, I think it's also a way to fracture the fan base even more. I think that the designers have their hearts in the right place, but collaborative design always leaves someone feeling left out in the cold when their ideas aren't embraced. Inevitably, some people playing 5E will not like the final product and prefer to play one of the playtest versions (or more likely, a mish-mashed hodge-podge of several of them and the final product). I also don't want to get attached to a particular version of the game as being 5E before it's "officially" released. Maybe it's a subtle thing, but I don't want my opinion of the edition to be influenced  by a bad version of the game or a good version that didn't make the  final cut. I'm going to wait until I can look at a physical book on a shelf before I decide whether or not I like 5E. All that being said, I know of several groups playing 5E. They don't play it exclusively, however, it's one of several games in their rotating lineup. Most of them play a session or two when a new playtest packet is released, but my experience matches up with yours: the people I know don't seem to have a fire in their belly about 5E. It just doesn't seem to excite people that much. "Oh, another edition?"</blockquote>

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