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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8359054" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, and don't take this in any way wrong: people only know what they experience.&nbsp; D&amp;D 5e is functional.&nbsp; To anyone who'd only experienced OD&amp;D in the old days (and wasn't convinced that being schematic was a virtue) it'd seem a revelation.&nbsp; And an awful lot of people played and enjoyed OD&amp;D for years.Many of them, however, also had little or no contact with other games; the same element of accidental parochialism I mentioned in my prior post applied every bit as much then.&nbsp; It was not particularly uncommon for those that did to move on, sometimes, well, forcefully.&nbsp; This didn't mean anything had changed in OD&amp;D; it just meant they had things they didn't like about the design, and once exposed to other options, couldn't ignore them any more.(Of course sometimes it was quite acknowledged, as the various reams of houserules sometimes to be seen showed).Or, honestly, D&amp;D5 could be supplying you everything you need and any problems are largely theoretical and irrelevant to you.&nbsp; That's entirely possible, too.&nbsp; Different people like different things.&nbsp; Different people are bothered by different things to different degrees.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8359054, member: 7026617"] Well, and don't take this in any way wrong: people only know what they experience. D&D 5e is functional. To anyone who'd only experienced OD&D in the old days (and wasn't convinced that being schematic was a virtue) it'd seem a revelation. And an awful lot of people played and enjoyed OD&D for [I]years[/I]. Many of them, however, also had little or no contact with other games; the same element of accidental parochialism I mentioned in my prior post applied every bit as much then. It was not particularly uncommon for those that did to move on, sometimes, well, forcefully. This didn't mean anything had changed in OD&D; it just meant they had things they didn't like about the design, and once exposed to other options, couldn't ignore them any more. (Of course sometimes it was quite acknowledged, as the various reams of houserules sometimes to be seen showed). Or, honestly, D&D5 could be supplying you everything you need and any problems are largely theoretical and irrelevant to you. That's entirely possible, too. Different people like different things. Different people are bothered by different things to different degrees. [/QUOTE]

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