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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9341468" data-attributes="member: 11760">They do. We have a great time playing the lighter games. I have a few players who get frustrated by the level of rules crunch that 5E has. (They didn't play prior editions and know that things were much crunchier in 3E, for instance.)But for ongoing campaigns, with characters they expect will be with them for months or years to come (something one can't say with confidence about Shadowdark or Pirate Borg characters), many of my players want more choice in their character development.It's not an either/or, any more than people choose just ice cream or just pizza to eat for the rest of their lives. We mix it up. So for our ongoing Radiant Citadel campaign, where characters could one day make it to the low teens before, I dunno, going to kick Vecna in the face or something, they want 5E.But for a quick romp, often with adult beverages, Pirate Borg and Shadowdark fit the bill. And when it comes time to do Halloween and other horror adventures (which turns out to by one of my strengths, which is weird, since I'm not a big horror fan), running it in Shadowdark is a lot more effective than in 5E, IMO, since the characters are fragile and don't have hundreds of spells to use to defuse the situation. (We'll likely run Witchburner with Shadowdark this year, so I don't need Circle of Truth and similar spells messing us up.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9341468, member: 11760"] They do. We have a great time playing the lighter games. I have a few players who get frustrated by the level of rules crunch that 5E has. (They didn't play prior editions and know that things were much crunchier in 3E, for instance.) But for ongoing campaigns, with characters they expect will be with them for months or years to come (something one can't say with confidence about Shadowdark or Pirate Borg characters), many of my players want more choice in their character development. It's not an either/or, any more than people choose just ice cream or just pizza to eat for the rest of their lives. We mix it up. So for our ongoing Radiant Citadel campaign, where characters could one day make it to the low teens before, I dunno, going to kick Vecna in the face or something, they want 5E. But for a quick romp, often with adult beverages, Pirate Borg and Shadowdark fit the bill. And when it comes time to do Halloween and other horror adventures (which turns out to by one of my strengths, which is weird, since I'm not a big horror fan), running it in Shadowdark is a lot more effective than in 5E, IMO, since the characters are fragile and don't have hundreds of spells to use to defuse the situation. (We'll likely run Witchburner with Shadowdark this year, so I don't need Circle of Truth and similar spells messing us up.) [/QUOTE]

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