Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Over 10 Years Since the Open 5e Playtest Began!
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8676196" data-attributes="member: 54629"><p>I personally got my start with D&D in the early 90s with 2e. After moving to NZ in the early 00s, I started playing 3.5e and then switched to 4e when that came out. I was playing in two RPG groups when the Next playtest was first a thing, but neither group picked it up immediately.</p><p></p><p><strong>Group #1: </strong>This was my long-running group that I'd started in NZ with a 3.5e campaign. We switched to 4e and played that for a while. We also played SWSE and the first FATE version of the <em>Bulldogs!</em> space opera game. When one half of the <em>Bulldogs! </em>party betrayed the other and we ended up with a TPK of sorts, I offered to run the <em>Mines of Madness </em>playtest adventure as a trial one-shot. People seemed to enjoy that, but not everyone wanted to continue, and I wasn't yet feeling up to getting back into DMing, so another player ran a homebrew campaign using an iteration of the playtest rules. At some point, some of us also got inducted into the closed alpha playtest program. We stuck with Next as it morphed into 5e. I ran both <em>Legacy of the Crystal Shard </em>and <em>Scourge of the Sword Coast</em> but both campaigns ended in TPKs with players moving on. We've since gotten a more stable core group of players who grok the cooperative nature of D&D and have thus had more success in their adventuring (with <em>Curse of Strahd </em>being one exception - Strahd got the better of them in the end). Currently I'm running <em>Dungeon of the Mad Mage </em>for this group.</p><p></p><p><strong>Group #2: </strong>I joined this group as a player most of the way through a long-running 4e campaign the DM was running. When it finished, the Next playtest was out, but the DM decided to run short campaigns using 1e and 3.5e first before running a conversion of the <em>Age of Worms AP</em>. We started that with the Next playtest rules and ended it with the full 5e rules. This group also got into the closed alpha playtest program and has also stuck with 5e. The core group of players has remained pretty stable over the years, with just a few people coming and going. We recently finished a remix of <em>Descent into Avernus</em>, and the DM is now running us through the Eberron <em>Oracle of War </em>AL series.</p><p></p><p><strong>Group #3: </strong>After the full 5e rules were out, I convinced my wife and a couple who are friends of ours to play through <em>Lost Mine of Phandelver</em>. We got my brother-in-law to join us for <em>Tyranny of Dragons</em>, and then my oldest daughter took his place for <em>Scourge of the Sword Coast </em>+ <em>Storm King's Thunder</em>. My middle daughter joined us for <em>Acq Inc </em>+ <em>Tomb of Annihilation</em>, while my oldest dropped out after her PC died in the jungle. We're just about to enter the eponymous tomb. This group is much more casual and we don't play as often or for as long, so we haven't gotten through as much content and I didn't bother to enroll them in the alpha playtest program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 8676196, member: 54629"] I personally got my start with D&D in the early 90s with 2e. After moving to NZ in the early 00s, I started playing 3.5e and then switched to 4e when that came out. I was playing in two RPG groups when the Next playtest was first a thing, but neither group picked it up immediately. [B]Group #1: [/B]This was my long-running group that I'd started in NZ with a 3.5e campaign. We switched to 4e and played that for a while. We also played SWSE and the first FATE version of the [I]Bulldogs![/I] space opera game. When one half of the [I]Bulldogs! [/I]party betrayed the other and we ended up with a TPK of sorts, I offered to run the [I]Mines of Madness [/I]playtest adventure as a trial one-shot. People seemed to enjoy that, but not everyone wanted to continue, and I wasn't yet feeling up to getting back into DMing, so another player ran a homebrew campaign using an iteration of the playtest rules. At some point, some of us also got inducted into the closed alpha playtest program. We stuck with Next as it morphed into 5e. I ran both [I]Legacy of the Crystal Shard [/I]and [I]Scourge of the Sword Coast[/I] but both campaigns ended in TPKs with players moving on. We've since gotten a more stable core group of players who grok the cooperative nature of D&D and have thus had more success in their adventuring (with [I]Curse of Strahd [/I]being one exception - Strahd got the better of them in the end). Currently I'm running [I]Dungeon of the Mad Mage [/I]for this group. [B]Group #2: [/B]I joined this group as a player most of the way through a long-running 4e campaign the DM was running. When it finished, the Next playtest was out, but the DM decided to run short campaigns using 1e and 3.5e first before running a conversion of the [I]Age of Worms AP[/I]. We started that with the Next playtest rules and ended it with the full 5e rules. This group also got into the closed alpha playtest program and has also stuck with 5e. The core group of players has remained pretty stable over the years, with just a few people coming and going. We recently finished a remix of [I]Descent into Avernus[/I], and the DM is now running us through the Eberron [I]Oracle of War [/I]AL series. [B]Group #3: [/B]After the full 5e rules were out, I convinced my wife and a couple who are friends of ours to play through [I]Lost Mine of Phandelver[/I]. We got my brother-in-law to join us for [I]Tyranny of Dragons[/I], and then my oldest daughter took his place for [I]Scourge of the Sword Coast [/I]+ [I]Storm King's Thunder[/I]. My middle daughter joined us for [I]Acq Inc [/I]+ [I]Tomb of Annihilation[/I], while my oldest dropped out after her PC died in the jungle. We're just about to enter the eponymous tomb. This group is much more casual and we don't play as often or for as long, so we haven't gotten through as much content and I didn't bother to enroll them in the alpha playtest program. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Over 10 Years Since the Open 5e Playtest Began!
Top