D&D 5E How are you feeling about 5e?

[Serendipity]

I didn't see an option for "tired of all the over-speculating over the crumbs of information WotC gives out / start the damn playtest already."
Because honestly, the longer that goes on, the less I am likely to care by the time the playtest does actually start.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Well, since there IS NO 5e at the moment, it is very hard to make a judgement call.

Ask me again in 18 months or so.

Or at least when the playtest docs are out.

 

[Ahnehnois]

There is a legitimate possibility to create a game with more balanced, more consistent, more realistic, more beginner-friendly, and more enjoyable rules than 3.5. I am skeptical as to whether that will actually happen, but I am keeping an open mind (as I did with 4e).

For me to even think about 5e it would have to be much better than my current houseruled game.

 

[Argyle King]

There have been a few blips on my radar (some good; some bad) so far, but, if I had to pick one word which sums up how I currently feel, apathy seems accurate. I still follow some of the developments, but my motivation to care is quickly waning.

Part of the reason is because -even though I sometimes like what they are saying- I don't think the designers are always speaking the same language that I am. I'm not sure I believe they understand what I liked/disliked about 3rd Edition. I find a similar statement about 4th, and what I liked/disliked about it to be especially true.

Meanwhile, they are also tossing around words like modularity, and talking about dialing parts of the game up and down. I like those concepts, but that means (in my mind) they are competing with some of the space that one of the non-D&D games I play occupies. Being that the company who makes that other game does what I feel is an excellent job of communicating with their customer base and making a modular game I want to play, WoTC has a lot of work to do to sway me. It's possible they don't want to sway me, but somehow I'm completely fine with that.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

That is quite a bad poll...

what about liking all D&D variants excluding Pathfinder and OD&D? You should have made different poll options...

So I like AD&D 2e, 3e and 4e. Excluding third party stuff... and I like 5e so far.

 

[BryonD]

I trying to stay optimistic. But I'm starting to think that a lot of fans may end up on the wrong end of "be careful what you wish for".

Whether or not 5E is a great game will not be determined the day it comes out. It will be determined by what awesome things are (or are not) being done with it three years later.

 

[Libramarian]

I've been steadily sliding towards pessimistic since reading the Legends & Lore articles before the Next announcement.

Those early articles sounded awesome. Now that we're getting more and more information about the actual system it feels like they're losing their way.

I really didn't like what i read in the Cleric design goals article, and I also don't like the sound of some of the "themes" -- Lurker? Uh, what exactly is *thematic* about lurking? That's pretty gamey.

I thought these would be much more flavorful, more like the 2e kits. Instead they appear to be the 4e roles.

Lurker instead of Skald. Blah.

 

[tlantl]

So, when you ask how does one feel about D&DN do you mean feel as in an emotional response or do you use the term as a euphemism for think?

That poll has absolutely nothing to do with how I feel or think about the information we've been given about a game that doesn't actually exist yet.

To address the way I feel about the stuff I've read concerning the game and the stated goals, I'd have to say I'm a little anxious, worried, hopeful and a little impatient to get my hands on the playtest. I like a lot of what I hear, but they haven't actually gotten to the things about earlier games I truly hated or was disappointed with.

What do I think, well it's not nice to express my thoughts where other games are concerned. Suffice it to say that I am not going to be happy if the stuff I loathed about other editions are incorporated in the next version of the game.

I'm perfectly happy playing the games I have even if there are things about them that I really don't like. I have the benefit of owning a lot of stuff from all of the editions prior to D&DN and can combine them in creative ways to glean the game I'm most comfortable with.

I would like to be able to buy brand new books and find enjoyment in their contents. The last time I tried this I was left feeling bewildered and betrayed.

 

[Viking Bastard]

A BECMI/4E hybrid could suit me right down to the ground. I think I might be able to tweak 5E to get as close to that as heretofore has been possible. I remain cautiously optimistic.

This describes me as well.

 

[haakon1]

Can I get an "other" option?

There's always the Lemon Curry.