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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5430408" data-attributes="member: 58197">Yeah, it's too early.Personally, I would jump on board with 5E tomorrow, if it continued along the lines they seem to be going--less metagamey, more old-schooly, plus the death of DDM means they can move away from 4E's heavy dependence on miniatures. I would shake the dust of 4E off my boots and never look back.But then, my feelings on 4E have been deeply ambivalent for a while*. If the 4E community were a solar system, I'd be a comet, swinging around the fringes in a highly eccentric orbit, only tenuously bound by gravity. Most 4E players would be justifiably infuriated to see a new edition so soon; there would be another split in the community, half moving to 5E and the other half sticking with the current edition.Meanwhile, what about the other side? The paramount goal of any 5E release should be to reunite the D&amp;D community as much as possible, bringing the folks who couldn't stomach 4E back into the fold. But a lot of those people are happily playing Pathfinder right now. In time, many of them will start getting antsy and ready to move on--that's the nature of RPGs. When that happens, the time will be ripe for 5E. But right now, no.[size=-2]*Also, I'm a single guy with no kids and a good job, so coming up with the money to buy into 5E would not be a problem.[/size]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5430408, member: 58197"] Yeah, it's too early. [i]Personally[/i], I would jump on board with 5E tomorrow, if it continued along the lines they seem to be going--less metagamey, more old-schooly, plus the death of DDM means they can move away from 4E's heavy dependence on miniatures. I would shake the dust of 4E off my boots and never look back. But then, my feelings on 4E have been deeply ambivalent for a while*. If the 4E community were a solar system, I'd be a comet, swinging around the fringes in a highly eccentric orbit, only tenuously bound by gravity. Most 4E players would be justifiably infuriated to see a new edition so soon; there would be [i]another[/i] split in the community, half moving to 5E and the other half sticking with the current edition. Meanwhile, what about the other side? The paramount goal of any 5E release should be to reunite the D&D community as much as possible, bringing the folks who couldn't stomach 4E back into the fold. But a lot of those people are happily playing Pathfinder right now. In time, many of them will start getting antsy and ready to move on--that's the nature of RPGs. When that happens, the time will be ripe for 5E. But right now, no. [size=-2]*Also, I'm a single guy with no kids and a good job, so coming up with the money to buy into 5E would not be a problem.[/size] [/QUOTE]

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