Is this WotC's pipe dream?

[Ahnehnois]

I had to revise 3e pretty substantially to get it to do what I wanted. 4e wasn't even worth the trouble; it would have required a page 1 rewrite. I see a few positives with the 5e stuff, but not nearly enough at this point to justify the trouble it would take to make it work.

 

[steenan]

The playtest rules are not perfect, but even in their current form they are close to "perfect D&D" for me.

That does not mean I'm going to abandon games I currently play and switch completely to D&DN. I play several games, each of them different, each of them satisfying different needs. I'm nearly sure I will play D&DN in the future, but it won't cause me to stop playing Mistborn, or Nobilis, or Exalted.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

A special snowflake, I see not reason to switch just yet. A lot depends on my players. I will DM 4e as long as there is demand for it and switch if there is demand for that or run both if i have players for that.

 

[JoesephBear]

Special Snowflake.

I like AD&D 1e, BECMI, 3e (computer games only though), and early 4e. Though I'm helping to playtest 5e, I plan to mostly play with a homebrew rpg I've patched together from my favorite editions.

Weather I'll fully go gung-ho into 5e is to be determined. The playtest material is really, really rough and very early in development. It will be late beta before I can really make a commitment one way or another.

In the mean time, I'll happily playtest 5e and work on my little personal project.

 

[Gold Roger]

I voted "I play something else and I would switch". But I guess I'm a special case, as the "something else" right now is nothing.

I don't have an existing gaming group to pull me to one particular version of the game.

I'm still keenly aware of the reasons why I was happy not to run 3rd edition anymore.

Pathfinder, while shiny and aluring, is just another shade of 3rd, with the same issues.

I was initially exited by 4th, but found it lacking very soon, showing both rules issues and the wrong feel. Let's just say, when you explicitly want to play the genre D&D, it's not an ideal choice.

Any older edition just shows it's age to much to appeal to me to DM.


Meanwhile, the direction DDN seems to take does appeal to me. I like the bare bones of a game we've seen so far. I love the prospect of modularity. So I hope it holds up and after the playtest presents a system I can consider "my D&D".

 

[dmccoy1693]

special snowflake.

We're not going to change while its a beta system (or an alpha system as it currently is) from our pathfinder game. But we'll decide when the final comes out.

 

[delericho]

It's too soon to tell.

I like what we've seen of the system, but I'm really not interested in another 1,000 page monstrosity of a ruleset (or, worse, one that somehow feels incomplete without another 1,000 pages of supplements). Based on what we've seen, I don't think there's any need for that, but whether WotC would be able to help themselves is another question.

(And, of course, it's extremely doubtful whether they can make money on a 250-page game that doesn't feel like it needs supplements.)

So as things stands, I like what I see, I'm actually quite surprised at how much I like what I see... and I still probably won't buy it.

 

[Scribble]

I guess I'm a sparkly snowflake. I don't choose a rule-set and then dig in against all change forevermore... If a game is fun I will probably end up playing it.

 

[ThirdWizard]

I became disinterested in DMing D&D slowly over time as I was exposed to other systems. However, when 5e comes out, based on what I've seen, I would be willing to give it a try. I'll almost certainly at least buy the initial books and give it a few sessions.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Very special snowflake, here.

I'm having/running one 4e game which is quite attractive and probably long running. We won't change the game system in the midst of the campaign, so the question whether to switch to D&DN will have to be answered at some unknown time in the future. At that point in time we'll see what's possible and what's wanted.

D&DN's modular approach makes it actually less likely that we'll use it. What will it have to offer that can't be achieved by some house-rules applied to an older version? Maybe we adopt one or three of its optional rules/modules as ... hmmh, semi house-rules, official house-rules or whatever.

There's one more point not relating to D&DN but to WotC as a company. I have come to enjoy the possibilities of DDI and I expect WotC to offer this service for my 4e game even after D&DN has been released and 4e removed from their portfolio.

If that's not the case and our 4e campaign is still running they'll have removed me from their customer list: We won't synch our games with their release schedule.