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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 5974657" data-attributes="member: 37579">I want flexibility and to play the game I want. I want to be able to make the game fit the adventure I want to run, not change the adventure I want to run to accommodate the quirks of the system.For example, I changed how I wrote adventures for 4th Edition. I stopped doing investigative modules or overland travel adventures because of how potent the PCs were if they fought just one creature in a day.I had to frequently stop and wonder &quot;how am I going to add 3-5 treasure parcels to this adventure?&quot; or &quot;how can I add monsters to this fight for the appropriate amount of xp?&quot; As a second example, my forthcoming game (starting in two weeks) is a Pathfinder game. The PCs use NPC classes only and the basic stat array (13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8). Because the game is set in Ravenloft and I want them to be afraid: I don't want them to think like heroes or assume they have the advantage and charge into combat. I'm further customizing the game with Armour as DR rules and wound/vitality from Ultimate Combat as well as a modification of the Defence system from Unearthed Arcana and d20 Modern.While I expect 5e to come out of the gate with a very simple version of the rules, and expansions that let you tweak the game into something closer to 3e and 4e, I hope they'll have even more customization after. Where I can play something like my Ravenloft game. Or just as easily play a 1e mod just updating the monster statblocks and DCs and not rebuilding every encounter. Or let me play Rise of the Runelords just doing the same.That's how they can win me over.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 5974657, member: 37579"] I want flexibility and to play the game I want. I want to be able to make the game fit the adventure I want to run, not change the adventure I want to run to accommodate the quirks of the system. For example, I changed how I wrote adventures for 4th Edition. I stopped doing investigative modules or overland travel adventures because of how potent the PCs were if they fought just one creature in a day. I had to frequently stop and wonder "how am I going to add 3-5 treasure parcels to this adventure?" or "how can I add monsters to this fight for the appropriate amount of xp?" As a second example, my forthcoming game (starting in two weeks) is a Pathfinder game. The PCs use NPC classes only and the basic stat array (13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8). Because the game is set in [I]Ravenloft [/I]and I want them to be afraid: I don't want them to think like heroes or assume they have the advantage and charge into combat. I'm further customizing the game with Armour as DR rules and wound/vitality from [I]Ultimate Combat[/I] as well as a modification of the Defence system from [I]Unearthed Arcana[/I] and [I]d20 Modern[/I]. While I expect 5e to come out of the gate with a very simple version of the rules, and expansions that let you tweak the game into something closer to 3e and 4e, I hope they'll have even more customization after. Where I can play something like my [I]Ravenloft[/I] game. Or just as easily play a 1e mod just updating the monster statblocks and DCs and not rebuilding every encounter. Or let me play [I]Rise of the Runelords[/I] just doing the same. That's how they can win me over. [/QUOTE]

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