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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8605352" data-attributes="member: 59082">I hear you, and actually my degree of proximity to the current D&D zeitgeist is probably somewhat similarly removed - although perhaps to a less concerning degree to me, in that my focus is mostly elsewhere. At this point, my interest in D&D is more academic and based on curiosity. Further, I've always tended to play sporadically and only been part of an extended campaign (3+ years) a few times, all with me as DM. So I'm used to long gaps between active play periods.This is not to say that I won't play again, just that I don't feel like I have to. I still love the game and what it is at a fundamental level--a game of imagination--but I'm also content mostly following from afar, buying the occasional book, and maybe if the situation is right, running a game. Meaning, I'm in a place where I'll play if the situation is right, including the right players, my schedule allows for it, and am not in a position of "looking for the best available option, because I just have to play D&D."But this does impact me in terms of what books are published, and whether I want to spend the money for reading pleasure and/or let them gather dust on the shelves. Aside from core rules and the occasional splat or adventure, I tend to mostly buy setting books and/or heavily lore-focused books, and I haven't purchased a new book since Ravenloft - mostly because I'm just not interested in most of the recent offerings, whether for reading pleasure or play. So to some extent, I wrote the above as someone who has partially moved on from the game and/or from whom the game has moved on from. If I were more interested in playing, I'd either customize D&D to my own liking and run a homebrew, or possibly look for other options - maybe Hyperborea or one of the Fria Ligan games, or possibly try to get a Talislanta or Ars Magica game going.I don't mean to undermine your concerns - I feel you, especially imagining into a place where I really wanted to play 5E and was looking around for a group to join. I'd really have little interest in joining an Exandria or Witchlight or Strixhaven campaign. But also as I said in the original post, I think "making your own fun" is an intrinsic aspect of D&D - and really, part of the fun.</blockquote>

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