D&D 5E I feel like the surveys gaslit WotC about """"Backwards Compatibility""""

[Zardnaar]

It sounds like you wanted a reprint with eratta... not a revised edition.

Edit: This is basically what later printings of the core '14 books already were... outside of new art you had this already.

Not exactly what I wanted tbh. I was kinda neutral on the 5.5 revision. I didn't ask for it. Generally I think it's better at least for experienced players.

Might be worse at attracting new ones though. Much like 3.5 and 3.0 it's a pita mixing and matching.

I suspect I'm one of the very few 5.5 DMs here.

 

[Imaro]

Not exactly what I wanted tbh. I was kinda neutral on the 5.5 revision. I didn't ask for it. Generally I think it's better at least for experienced players.

Might be worse at attracting new ones though. Much like 3.5 and 3.0 it's a pita mixing and matching.

I suspect I'm one of the very few 5.5 DMs here.

I actually think the '24 PHB is a much better book for new players than the '14...in fact I think the '24 corebooks in general are a better onramp into 5e than the '14 books were. Organization, examples, layout, & reference usability are all improved.

Edit: I also think there's quite a few DM's here running '24, I'm one of them... however there's a small group of posters on the board who have made it their mission to poo poo all things D&D '24, it's made it off putting and difficult to try and have real discourse around the game.

 

[Zardnaar]

I actually think the '24 PHB is a much better book for new players than the '14...in fact I think the '24 corebooks in general are a better onramp into 5e than the '14 books were. Organization, examples, layout, & reference usability are all improved.

Edit: I also think there's quite a few DM's here running '24, I'm one of them... however there's a small group of posters on the board who have made it their mission to poo poo all things D&D '24, it's made it off putting and difficult to try and have real discourse around the game.

Book lay out is better. Overall I think it's better. Biggest problem it's not that different. I suspect I'll be bored with it sooner than 10 years.

 

[Imaro]

Book lay out is better. Overall I think it's better. Biggest problem it's not that different. I suspect I'll be bored with it sooner than 10 years.

Do you only play D&D? I think this is a weird sentiment for me because while I run D&D more than any other rpg... we do intersperse our groups play with other ttrpg's. I think if all I played was D&D I'd be bored in 10years as well... but I feel like that would be true of any other ttrpg as well.

 

[Zardnaar]

Do you only play D&D? I think this is a weird sentiment for me because while I run D&D more than any other rpg... we do intersperse our groups play with other ttrpg's. I think if all I played was D&D I'd be bored in 10years as well... but I feel like that would be true of any other ttrpg as well.

Pretty much. I mix up the editions.

Occasional Star Wars. I own some others and have played some others eg Paranoia. Functionally impossible to play anything else at least reliably though.

Grew up in town of 12k, nowsmall city of 130k ass end of no where.

 

[ECMO3]

Not really. A lot of B+ and A tier stuff inn5.0 is now weak to new shiniest.

What specifically?

 

[AlViking]

I actually think the '24 PHB is a much better book for new players than the '14...in fact I think the '24 corebooks in general are a better onramp into 5e than the '14 books were. Organization, examples, layout, & reference usability are all improved.

Edit: I also think there's quite a few DM's here running '24, I'm one of them... however there's a small group of posters on the board who have made it their mission to poo poo all things D&D '24, it's made it off putting and difficult to try and have real discourse around the game.

There is some stuff they dropped, especially from the DMG and the advice is obviously targeted at new DMs. But I was chatting with a friend yesterday and we both agreed that this is arguably best version of the books ever written for teaching people how to play the game. Whether the actual rules are the best I'll leave to edition warriors.

 

[Imaro]

Pretty much. I mix up the editions.

Occasional Star Wars. I own some others and have played some others eg Paranoia. Functionally impossible to play anything else at least reliably though.

Grew up in town of 12k, nowsmall city of 130k ass end of no where.

Ah ok, yeah I sometimes forget many people don't have stable groups... I've been gaming with my core group of players since we were kids and it's given me the ability to be able to play many various games even though our staple is still the D&D long form campaign.

 

[Zardnaar]

Ah ok, yeah I sometimes forget many people don't have stable groups... I've been gaming with my core group of players since we were kids and it's given me the ability to be able to play many various games even though our staple is still the D&D long form campaign.

I've got stable groups but they're not really interested in anything else.
I can get them to play Dtar Wars generally not going to bother with Numenera or buy another one.

I might run something they supply if they all wanted to play ot hypothetically.

But personal friends as players they drifted away over 20 years.