D&D 5E (2024) If D&D 2024 Had Been Radically Different, Would You Have Stuck With 5E

[Zardnaar]

The overwhelming majority of people in this poll have said that they'd at least look at this new edition. No guarantees of switching, nor running it co-currently with 5E, only that they are willing to keep their eyes open.

Which is a pretty good indication that WotC changing editions just isn't really necessary right now. Most people apparently don't care or don't need it to happen. Yeah, there are the few of us who hate 5E and want anything but 5E right now... but not nearly enough to inspire anyone up in Renton to get back to the design tables any time soon.

At this point, anyone who doesn't want 5E but still wants/needs "Dungeons & Dragons" (for whatever good that gets you)... (general) you will just have to work extra-hard to go find some other version of it you are okay with, and extra-extra-hard to find other players who will agree with you and will join you on your journey.

Either that, or you just play the hand you've been dealt.

Its because the OP specifically said you kinda like the changes.

Just means most here aren't hard coded to hate all change as long as we like it to some extent.

5.5 good enough for now if they did 6E instead and didnt screw in up thats fine.

I suspectvin 2 years ir so I'll be sick of 5.5. Mostly because 5.0 lasted 10 years and I've played it a lot.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

For a hobby built around pretending to be someone else, it seems like many folks have difficulty imagining hypothetical scenarios.

Imagine if a new version of D&D came out while you were still in the midst of playing the current version. The new version is Official D&D, and there is nothing in its core design that trips one of your "Nope" switches (whatever those may be for you personally). Now what? Do you stick with the current version because you are invested in it? Do you buy the new version and put it on a shelf for when your current game ends? Do you immediately switch to a new campaign because "ooh! shiny!"? Etc etc

These are the SAME EXACT question folks wrestled with with D&D 2024, with the notable difference that the system changes significantly.

I understand where you are coming from. I just do not share your response. If we go back to 3.5, I embraced 3.5 initially from Palladium, and it is clearly a better system, however, as a DM by the end of the 3.5 era, I was very sick of it. I would still play it but would not run it. If 4e had not come along I would probably switched to Savage Worlds or something else, maybe 13th age.
Now I really liked 4e but after a while my players declared their dislike and would not play it. 5e came along quickly enough and I was ok with the playtest stuff that I was willing to adopt it. I now really like it, particularly the 2024 flavour of it.
However, if a 6e appeared and I did not like it, I probably would not switch. I feel no obligation to play a game with the D&D label, as long as Kobold Press and others produced 5e compatible material I would likely stick with it. I have a lot of adventure material and there is a lot out there. Now in another 10 years? I don't know, I will be seventy if I am still alive.
It is not that I am unwilling to try new stuff but I feel little compulsion to do so at the moment.

 

[Reynard]

I understand where you are coming from. I just do not share your response. If we go back to 3.5, I embraced 3.5 initially from Palladium, and it is clearly a better system, however, as a DM by the end of the 3.5 era, I was very sick of it. I would still play it but would not run it. If 4e had not come along I would probably switched to Savage Worlds or something else, maybe 13th age.
Now I really liked 4e but after a while my players declared their dislike and would not play it. 5e came along quickly enough and I was ok with the playtest stuff that I was willing to adopt it. I now really like it, particularly the 2024 flavour of it.
However, if a 6e appeared and I did not like it, I probably would not switch. I feel no obligation to play a game with the D&D label, as long as Kobold Press and others produced 5e compatible material I would likely stick with it. I have a lot of adventure material and there is a lot out there. Now in another 10 years? I don't know, I will be seventy if I am still alive.
It is not that I am unwilling to try new stuff but I feel little compulsion to do so at the moment.

To be clear, I was not trying to convince anyone of any particular answer. I was trying to show that it was not a "meaningless choice" as some folks had asserted.

 

[Umbran]

Which is a pretty good indication that WotC changing editions just isn't really necessary right now. Most people apparently don't care or don't need it to happen.

How soon we forget.

5e24 was released when it was probably less for the need to do a revision right now, and more because it was the 50th Anniversary.

 

[DEFCON 1]

How soon we forget.

5e24 was released when it was probably less for the need to do a revision right now, and more because it was the 50th Anniversary.

The 50th was a convenient time, but I don't see any reason why they wouldn't have published a revised rulebook in and around these past few years anyway, even if the anniversary didn't exist. Whether that was say three years ago, or last year, or next year, in a couple years time... people have been crying out for errata to a whole bunch of rules since 2014 and that errata was either going to be a 30-page copy paper document you printed and then stuffed in your books like we had to do for 4E... or the books themselves got revised at some point down the line. And this time around WotC decided on the latter.

But that's not to say the errata had to be done either. Because obviously there are plenty of tables who are ignoring the errata (AKA the revised 5E24 rulebooks) and just still using 5E14. So these revisions are here for people who want it, but can be ignored by the people who don't. And it won't matter to WotC either way... because any books they publish in the future will be able to be used by both.

 

[mamba]

The overwhelming majority of people in this poll have said that they'd at least look at this new edition. No guarantees of switching, nor running it co-currently with 5E, only that they are willing to keep their eyes open.

Which is a pretty good indication that WotC changing editions just isn't really necessary right now.

not sure how you arrive at this conclusion, given that we have no idea what the changes in the hypothetical new version are (apart from not being a complete turn-off) the logical next step from my perspective is to take a look next rather than either to jump in blind or reject it blindly.

I would have expected the same answer for the actual 2024 two years ago, i.e. people will take a look once it is out rather than committing to switching to it or rejecting it without knowing much of anything about it.

 

[DEFCON 1]

not sure how you arrive at this conclusion, given that we have no idea what the changes in the hypothetical new version are (apart from not being a complete turn-off) the logical next step from my perspective is to take a look next rather than either to jump in blind or reject it blindly.

I would have expected the same answer for the actual 2024 two years ago, i.e. people will take a look once it is out rather than committing to switching to it or rejecting it without knowing much of anything about it.

54 people (almost 50% higher than all the other responses combined) saying they would look at it and just think about it was how I arrived at my conclusion.

Most people are not jumping in with both feet automatically, and most people are not dismissing the idea out of hand. Which means WotC does not need to say "Absolutely! Let's do it!" nor say "Absolutely not! We're not doing it!" They just don't have to say anything. They don't have to care one way or the other because the people who responded in this poll don't really care one way or the other. If it happens, fine... if it doesn't happen, also fine. But nothing is necessary. If most people are 'Meh'... then WotC can also be 'Meh' and only act and react when the response is beyond 'Meh'. Which was what I was trying to get across with my post.

 

[Reef]

Personally, I'd look at it, sure. I love learning new games. But I like 5e a lot, so to make the switch, it would have to be a huge leap forward, for a couple of reasons:

1) My shelves groan under the weight of all the games I already have. Not a consideration when I was younger, but where I'm at now, I really stop to ask myself what the new game gives me that I can't do with something I already have.
2) My group is much less likely than me to jump for the new and shiny, and we all have a whole lot of 5e books among us. We all picked up 5e24, but that's because the vast majority of our previous purchases were still perfectly compatible.

So, yeah, backwards compatibility was a big plus for my group. A radical departure may have been interesting, but likely would have resulted in us just sitting pat.

 

[Cergorach]

Look, I was already halfway out the door and into Pathfinder 2e territory up till we got the new PHB in our hands on day one and we digested the new 5e as a group. We generally found it an improvement with some asterisks. And I was just thinking of wether I would want to convert the PF2e Kingmaker adventure (FVTT) to D&D 5e (2014) books are available for that, and then D&D 5e 2024...

So unless a radically different 5e was somehow vibing with our whole group, I would probably tried to move the whole group over to PF2e. One player was already interested without me even mentioning it, and another would probably dig the crunchyness, so that would already have most of the group convinced...

But that reality did not come to pass, we enjoy the current D&D 5e 2024 very much.

 

[mamba]

Most people are not jumping in with both feet automatically, and most people are not dismissing the idea out of hand. Which means WotC does not need to say "Absolutely! Let's do it!" nor say "Absolutely not! We're not doing it!"

ok, I see where you are coming from now. To me that will always be the reaction of most people though, so it is not a good indicator of when to start work on a new edition.

The real indicator, as for any other edition, will be low sales, until then WotC will not work on one.