NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet-7" data-source="post: 9634713" data-attributes="member: 7025282">I am grateful to Crawford, Mearls and Perkins for making a version of a game that has and continues to give a lot of joy!I am less worried about personal reasons or otherwise for departures and am more interested in how it will change the future.  Sadly, it looks like 5.5 is locked in for a good while.I don’t appreciate most of the changes from 5.0.  I also don’t dig what feels to me like a tonal shift.  I have been rolling 5e in the dirt to get some grit…a little bit anyway.  But it’s getting harder.Anyway, wishing these creators the best even if they started moving away from what I like best.  We still play with half races and racial adjustments and frankly some older lore.I really appreciate the 5e chassis.  I did not appreciate “telling your story” as a sentiment and find how 5.5 handles backgrounds does not help with that stated goal.  It’s getting a little loosey goosey for my tastes.  Just an opinion among many.But I can’t play 5e for a long time to come with hostility toward those that helped shape it anymore than I would be hostile about Gygax and the years of fun 1e gave me way past its heyday.  The summer of 98 was evil barbarians and pizza delivery and I wish I could go back for a weekend!Anyway good luck to the 5e architects.  If it’s the last version I buy into (passing on 5.5) I choose to be thankful and keep having fun!I have fought so hard to get some free time this week.  Working dad, kid in sports, homeowner…it’s not easy to find time!  But today I am crafting some foam mountains and I promised to DM “the goblin wars” so I better get to work!</blockquote>

Verification